and goodness all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest looked forward to a terry bradshaw hall of fame quarterback for super bowl rings two time super bowl m.v.p. awards a new york times best selling author he could also be seen co-hosting fox's n.f.l. sunday during the n.f.l. season and because that isn't enough he currently is touring the country with a show terry bradshaw america's favorite blonde a life in four quarters we're going to get to that in a while we give all of motivate all the things you do you mention the hits from your playing days have affected your memory tell me about that well and i'm certainly not in a category by myself because you know there's kind of lawsuits being part of it i

was asked to be to be a part of it but i refused. i grew up with a family that was anti suing basically and so my my foundation as a child is very much you know that's how it was and i felt that larry since i elected was fortunate enough to play in the national football league and since i was fortunate to play fourteen years and had to retire because of an elbow injury i made that choice. and obviously early in the seventy's he would play and get knocked out and played you know against dolphins in seventy two i'm not out in the first quarter i think about it as a back and yeah came back and played in the fourth quarter today i would have it out you know for a week or at least i do to get a kid today a bad solution and i i just felt that i didn't want to be a part of something that i was uncomfortable that i didn't want to live in my name to think and it was a star power because he had so many great players ah. that were part of it and so i

passed on it because i was getting i was sick i was getting medical attention on my own without it is a violent guess do you think they're ever going to stop are they going to help the helmets any way to curb concussions in a game where you get hit they've already done a great job in taking away the head and so now they're teaching with the shoulder you can do more damage with this then you ever can with this but we were always taught that you lead with your head and body follows that head up and but i was saying going to cause dementia or you know not another you may have you know arthritis in your shoulder but they've done a great job of implementing new rules there and forcing the rules. they will continue to improve their equipment the lawsuits will force things even more rapidly and i know the n.f.l. and they're also losing now and they're losing young kids are playing football in your thirty's more than probability and it was just ninety percent

a couple years ago so now it's thirty so there that gives it and so the n.f.l. is very they're smart they're savvy they're great marketers and they're not missing out on the point that we're losing young people to our sport and so i i personally think that you should play football when you're young anyway because you're not a proper coaching if your dad is coaching you and he's a businessman that not a good gig is ok and let me not a good deal as far as i'm concerned ok and little that we are doing the right job there doing the right things now by the way did you did you set up a depression yes still do yes take medication i did i took medication for a long time. but i'm also an a.d.d. kid and not a good combination and you can't necessarily take both pills why did you come out about it at first. i felt that it was a sign of weakness until i get educated on men men don't want people hey look i'm going to do a lot of medicine and then you don't want people to say we had such

a great career you're such a funny guy you seem to focus on fox and now all of a sudden they attacked you and so that made me very uncomfortable now it's something that men should not be to be ashamed of in and out and i've had a lot a lot of men larry come out and say hey man i really appreciate all i thought i really appreciate you coming out saying the things she did. to her and football to operation i want to talk about your tour and everything ok you think the redskins should change a name. i've never been asked this question it's sensitive. but . we have to be sensitive to. everything and i had i would say i would say my answer to that would be yes i'm afraid i asked would be some a friend of dan snyder i like to mean chairs i had nothing to do with where the chairs are jerry and if it offends nuff of. what's the big deal right exactly i guess that mean i'm i'm so i'm so careful with certain topics because

social media they take things in and you get it's just get spun wrong but since this redskin thing has been has come out in the last year and i've given it finally have given it some thought and i'm going you know like yeah if it's offending if it's really a pending folks absolutely did you see the article in the paper with the offensive back said it you know it is like the n. word while i didn't see it but yeah i do so now you are innocent so redskins if it's offensive everybody loves the washington redskins but they can be washington's out mets it's not going to change a thing speaking of the n word how's the n.f.l. going to deal with banning it. well that's going to that's going to go through the coaches down and down through the position coaches and to the leaders of the football team and and it will it will add to the black athletes who are primarily the ones that use it the most and so therefore they all have to they'll have to

monitor it i don't think i don't think. it's going to be an issue i think once it's brought up in meetings what your position coaches wants the leaders of the football team talk about it i think they need us in the referee is going to have a tough because blacks use it as a friendly term to fellow blacks so will the referee throw the flag all i think so you know they will i think just forget it i think so i think so yeah needs to be eliminated would be now if i'm bringing it to a lot of controversy you might as i let it go sit in my head spin of those if i had anything wrong here might as well get to gays in the n.f.l. how they may. slip right into the easy vard how will the n.f.l. deal with this this and the rest that are going to come. i think michael sam's has painted the picture of himself as a football player number one so he wants to be judged and that's where he should be judged and not because it was. a gay athlete that came out was i shocked by you

know they didn't even faze me at all. but he has to be he has to be judged. as a football player understanding that he went to a football team loaded on defense loaded. his his chances are going to be he's really going to have to shine on special teams and he's going to have to have that special spark when he plays to make that football team but i think you have to judge him as a as a football player larry simply that the rest is outside that's that's his choice but i got to cover this course is the twentieth anniversary of the o.j. simpson trial you know o.j. play to get out and did you know right. when you make of all of that i was shocked . shocked by the whole thing about a fact i just came in from working cattle and my wife was sitting there with my mom and they had just saying on t.v. the the the car and i'm like what i'll do it in a good o.j. killed his wife and why i mean so i don't i was totally limiting graeme king louis

and i didn't have a lot of news and you didn't necessarily i don't didn't have cable i was had you know the networks and so he was this two sides of o.j. don't you think bill was a great coach i was around o.j. . not a lot. but he matter of fact i came into the in a felon played against buffalo he came over welcome to the n.f.l. could have been nicer and then when he and i saw him when we were interviewing when he was working network and doing interviews we would do interviews with the same people we met it's at hotels that have been tapped in him every day to me of a plate of age could have been more pleasant and nicer shot shot to the right we are now going to show you a little clip there it came to a point to add one more year to play bradshaw second string on purse strings or brad show i'm stepping out to chase the ducks and you're stepping in and you want to be an n.f.l. quarterback again after a couple years later he went to play with the washington redskins on the same team

yeah he said robson you ought to come up here wall cone but in those days where it was sixty five thousand a year and i would miss duck season. you know he declared rick perry all keep in touch with him good guy good. that of course was phil robertson from duck dynasty you backed him up i did he was the study hard about good what's cool is that louis and attack louisiana tech guy you know that place he stood losing and it was good news out of vivian losing or he's out all oil city louisiana sixty one eighty five and we ran the once closed off it's very complicated and he ran it had a quick release and i didn't like what he could have gone the n.f.l. . if he would have wanted to if he had been as devoted and had the passion for football as he does for hunting back then because he would show up always he was always late and he always were t. shirt always had blood on it our feather our squirrel guts he's all i never wear socks he always wore deducing crame levi blue jeans and a white t.

shirt that have a beard he did not he is a black top clean shaven he was the guy that nicknamed me the blond bomber. the great guy and i used to go fishing with a muslim out fact he put a sack over my head made me lay down in the bottom of a boat because he knew if we caught fish that i'd come back the next day in my boat and go to the same spot he would make me put a sack on and lay the bottom of the boat and that's where i'd stay till we got to where we were going where we were drafted i was the first player first player picked so you backed him up for a couple years you had a go of a senior that had a great junior year and great junior and senior year out of pressure being a first place. i didn't realize that larry at the time how much pressure was i didn't realize i never thought i did numbered i never did interviews when it did interviews we didn't have television people doing interviews with us so when i went to pittsburgh all this was new you had to learn how to deal with the media. and i

didn't understand at the time that the first put the first player picked. you know so much is expected of him but also through the first player picked you're going to the worst team and i didn't understand the worst thing and tried to a lot of pressure on myself because i wasn't plan well when the season started and i'm not all these people down and the fact was this was the team that was just putting together like it together i told you before we started our broadcast dolphin football i did the color and the first year you were all together it was in the arsenal seventy one i guess seventy one and you came in you will be missing halftime you were all rookie team and we wound up winning the game but dunn should have told me in the end that a game that team is going to win a lot of games well they won four super bowls now who is that the great is that aggregation do you think nobody ever says to me ever me are just so far. i mean touchdown passes so far they always will what they want to see the rings arrows to

see the rings and so that's what you're measured by that's your job to do with what we want and we won four super bowls thank you very much i'm going home get a job gotta get on with my life's work and that's how i approached it terry bradshaw the singer and that still the. lead. player. lead. i marinate joining me. in that impartial and financial reporting commentary

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line carrying. forward to a lot terry's touring show you get a fox analyst for twenty years now but look we are twenty first on the first year why does that show work so well howie long jimmy johnson straight and current man of the why does it work so well we genuinely are best friends all of us we hang in there and live to tell what we hear other people don't hang we hang jimmy johnson i watch football all day saturday jimmy's at my hotel at eight eight thirty something and we'll work out if we come in and then we watch football he'll leave five or six twenty five and stay all in l.a. but if he had come by to glazer comes by howie not so much comes by because he looks at a lot of tape he looks a lot more tape i don't look at tape but how he looks at a lot of tape but great friend all of these guys were all great friends straight

ahead even though he's got the big gig in new york great your show has such fun it is the front of the it is a fun show and people people say you guys look like you have so much fun and we are we are having a good time and you're not choosing to broadcast it. sure you that's a secret i wouldn't take it with a when i really was offered a job at c.b.s. i was going to be now you know call them and then a list and. and then i knew it was never going to beat out the greatest analysis ever lived with john madden and then they fired musburger april fool's day i got a phone call they said we fired britain musburger and it's april fools i am haha and they said no we did and what we want to build in until today we want you and i said so i said well when you come back for that and i said absolutely so that and that's how it started tell me about the show you do. what are you not

a dumb blonde what is it a you know my image was dumb and people i've always used that you can't be a dumb cordell you can't but i took it. and it's always been out there it's always been one of the when the people criticize me or even when they're complimenting me they'll say you know you know call his own plays the wasn't smart a change he started in the huddle stuff like that but if you're calling on your own place you have the right to say open right sixty six place not on the no no no no let's go seventy fucking go you have that right that that's not starting in the hole that's something else came to you know what is your show the show is my life. the song that goldsmith a great broadway musical writer wrote the lyrics to six songs and i tell my story to tell my life story and sing and i saying. eight songs and they're all where do you tour where you go to the theater i do theaters i will do theat three

three theaters this year and i will do fifteen casinos i opened up at the mirage in vegas that's like nascar going to daytona or play in the super bowl and there are any or any of my friends to come watch this because it i get uncomfortable. you know you're not come to mellor well that's a lot to learn it took three years to write it and then i had to i had to i had to cut it out it was one hundred forty two pages of script and i had to cut it down who came up with the idea to do this john max who is a great joke writer for little and i've been on the tonight show several times and he came hear me speaking with golly man boy that's that's got people need to hear this he says and he said you can saying they said it is that i mean it with a need a man need a man productions to produce michael jackson elvis presley their shows in vegas

and so he said got need and he said you got to listen here this guy speaks i was speaking in vegas she has her shows in vegas she brings her staff to hear me speak when we meet after which is all my god this will work so now because i'm david goldsmith the writer and then john mack and i we all meet and we start doing it we start writing to it took it took a year to write it another year to. change it john wrote some jokes i put all the family stuff in there and. he had to get past the vainest larry you have to get past the vein why he would want to come listen to my stuff and you have to get past that you're a natural you always are naturally you always kind of. spoke to me. i was always funny when i was always funny always. always funny how all those irate funny most great athletes aren't. you know we're. great they

aren't leap they're not big they're not a classic clown yeah they're not the funny guy you know johnny unitas didn't break no i i never. i'm never took knows that me one time he said i would wish you know what you'd be like johnny unitas you study study study but my whole point was on here at seven thirty and on a leave till six thirty or seven at night and we've gone through so much tape and all this stuff and you've got the game plan for me and i'm tired want to go home we'll put this tape on i don't watch a lot and he wanted me to be smart you know there's only two coverages man and zone i can figure that out so i just i did yeah yeah it does depend on what you want your perception to be and i was very serious as a player very serious to have to be and then it was over that member to tell my family i said now i will be made out but but i'm not for that came out in interviews and stuff and that works not necessarily i love watching you you want to

will couple click social media questions at real chris brown as well would be your go to play you have a favorite place to dig which is double double and post on the outside post on stalwart tied in twelve yard crossing route and then flanker post in with the option to slow it down if it was zone or something because there seems there and then always gave always gave stallworth after we'd run it a couple of times always the option to read it and he could either go take off he didn't have to go post it go skinny pose or he could want a cue or come up to what it was always always gave him options on the wonder slow your own to a double is i love throw in the deep paddle the lawrence act well yeah ok million four piece do you think johnny manziel will be in the lead and the fellow quarterback i hope so i like john i'm on manzella i i if i could talk to him i'd say don't listen to anybody in the listen to social media don't listen when reporters are saying. be yourself be true to yourself room or own twelve thirteen

and surround what you think are some new n.f.l. rules extended go post five feet higher recovery of a loose ball reviewable allow the clock to run after a quarterback is sack simplify and force will force will points extend roll of blocks from behind and also include from the side the blocking things he protection protect you they are all good rules yeah yeah i do i think the goalposts thing. but if you know a lot of wind what is it going to be higher and why are higher. i don't know i was thinking you know what. it's we're doing this interview in june and i don't i'll start studying this stuff and you. don't want to make it too complex for you terry ok so i haven't really got did i get it you do know five well how high they were five feet that's where they say they're either go you know you can buy that a ten you can go one think you'll sit there do this and go the whole play game what

i am about i am about any rule that's going to protect the legs of the office of the physical i'm absolutely not a game of if you only knew the member the first girl you kissed yes it was in a very alice crawford where was it out to match i was behind a billboard sign iowa i had to raise and lose and i was but we spent four years and i awoke a match i was told. nine maybe eight nine go find out what happened to her no first touchdown pleasurable through. first one ever no i don't remember high school the first touchdown pass the two in high school slipped out of my hand it was a bootleg to my head coach told me don't don't for the ball could we be more up for it but i never got to play and i got to go in and play and you know anti third down oh boy and so i called it a bootleg and when i came out my best friend tommy spinks was wide open touchdown twenty yards behind everybody well i play action in tom hagan our halfback he is

one down the right sideline seriously i stand your percentage and as i came out i set my feet salt assault on me and when i went to throw the ball slipped right there and came out and tom hagan was running down the right side. i got it wrong guy caught it first eyes to pass roll guy caught it favored football memory. super bowl line locker room when mr rooney got the vince lombardi trophy the greatest number every great man yes awesome funniest teammate you ever had hall. matt di white do white maddow white funny. you are if you qualify masculine how is this kind of an instigator hardest hit do you have a heart as you know who hit you the heart of said too tall jones beard me in cleveland. and gave me his final closure citing prayer in the n.f.l. today today. i guess you know what i'm going to say peyton manning when i was a running back there's no running back and i'm not he more minnesota peterson yeah

but no it's it's quarterback league now and you know we've got right now larry the very thing that the n.f.l. tried to keep away was a merger with the a.f.l. a reason that a.f.l. and n.b.c. were doing so well is because they have phil said what went on for all those old throw we're going to be entertaining and the fans are going to love this and this exactly what happened in the name of pete you know they they beat. him and so therefore you know and then you had the merger and now we're back to the n.f.l. now they're throwing forty forty five passes again three hundred yard game is nothing you know i mean three hundred yard games not two for my n.f.l. career you want i don't think it's about five three three my first one was in super bowl thirteen first three yunior who's the most knowledgeable football guy you know . how long well the guys i know how he's how we shoved him to us jimmy and me my god i kind of know was the best thing about a football man. it's got well first of all this competition it's

you you're matching as a quarterback you're matching with set your team up if nothing greater than make an adjustment at the line of scrimmage you're going to check with me and did nothing call in the right play run our pass whatever it is. also your challenge because there's ups and downs super bowls especially at the three interceptions against iran's and super bowl fourteen could easily just you know park that. super bowl and you just scrambling in your brains trying to figure out what can i do different where my what's going on it just so the strategy behind it's kind of i've read books on patton i love the strategy behind my generals do i think it's fascinating so war you go is it just you it's them then who's your favorite country artist alan jackson most underrated player in the n.f.l. today there's a bunch of hundreds too many to me to single out who right now if you had to pick

who would go to the super bowl i'm going to say denver in san francisco and you play for a great coach under-rated member there's no engine if there's a coach it allowed to play for several i would have loved to play for landry even though he was similar to my guy but i think he was fascinating in the four three defense the safety blitz the flex defense tackle zone tackle volved schiffman the linemen come up and down all that was the lead and there's a difference of genius he was coming home from the giants is up into the scheme was nobody had seen it you know he was. i don't i know one of like them because it's what the system says and you have to see that interview what the system says on a system guy because human being these are computers these are human beings but i would have loved to play for him don korea well done korea a brilliant air korea air crew are brilliant paul brown would have done a lot of the novel that would have loved to have played bone phillips if i if if my my career is over with and they end and they say look you've got two years left to

play any coach in the legal take you where you go on and so i'm going to use them i'm going down to be voluntary at a best next i want to thank my guests terry bradshaw i'll be sure to go to terry dash brad joy dot com to get tickets to see his show you don't know terry bradshaw america's favorite dumb blonde to live in four quarters and be prepared to see him on fox's n.f.l. sunday their twenty first year together this upcoming season he could find me on twitter at kings things see a next time. great man. well . it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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