TERRY Bradshaw has addressed the criticism he faced during his broadcast duties this season.
The Pittsburgh Steelers legend has faced growing criticism of his live TV work as he ages.
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Fans have continually grown more concerned about Terry Bradshaw’s health as he has gotten older.
However Bradshaw has revealed that he stays away from any of the negative attention.
“I’m sensitive, so I don’t read anything about myself ever. My wife knows it,” he told Jameis Winston during Super Bowl media availability.
“She keeps all the bad stuff away because it does come. I can handle it now, and I even calm her down.
“But be at peace with yourself, and don’t let people distract you.
“If you’re doing that, then you’re not strong enough to play quarterback, and you got to be strong enough right up here [your head] and right in here [your heart] to play quarterback.
“Go talk to Tom Brady for a while. You listen to Tom Brady talk and you’ll go, ‘Okay, I see where they got it.
“You know, don’t let them take it away from you. How dare you let someone else take your dream from you. Shame on you. Jameis, you’re stronger than that.”
Bradshaw has been prone to on air blunders in recent years.
Some fans have even called him out for slurring his words during segments.
“Look, they can’t hurt you,” Bradshaw said.
“All they can do is write about you and say bad things about you. Let them, who cares?
“What do you care? You’re gonna try to impress these people and make them like you?
“Don’t. Don’t worry about them liking you.
“They’ll like you when you win. And then that’s it. Then you move on with your life.
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“So don’t worry about them. I always say, they never made a tackle.”
Even after defending himself from critics, Bradshaw has acknowledged that his time on Fox NFL Sunday is coming to a close.
“I told my wife before I left the room a while ago, I’m sitting there, I said, ‘I’ve got two years left at FOX. I’m 76’, he said.
“Okay, so it’s a young man’s game. I get that.’ Everybody wants the new.
“And so I said, ‘If we can get to the next Super Bowl, I’ll be 80. That’s, I think that’s time’. 80 years old, that’s pushing it.”
