Comments from FOX Sports NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw raised eyebrows earlier this week, and 93.7 The Fan afternoon drive host Andrew Fillipponi knows Bradshaw wasn’t kidding.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback told assembled media on Radio Row that he would love to die on the air. The PM Team of Fillipponi and Chris Mueller discussed what that situation would look like.
“Yesterday, they did this FOX Sports media day. You could go over to the convention center in this big room and they had all the FOX Sports media people,” explained Fillipponi. “They were begging us to go over there, I’ve never seen anything like it. They were pleading with me to leave the show and go over and interview the people from FOX who are here covering the Super Bowl.
“Terry Bradshaw said that his wish is to die on the air,” Fillipponi continued. “He said that’s how he wants to go. He said ‘I hope I die while I’m on the air for the NFL on FOX.’ Then he said ‘Could you imagine the ratings?’. And he was serious!”
“Think of the trauma you’d be inflicting on your co-hosts,” said Mueller. “‘Let’s go to Terry for his take on the game. Terry, who you got? … Terry’s dead’.”
The pair — recently voted the top mid-market afternoon show during BSM’s Top 20 series — then joked that 93.7 The Fan Brand Manager Kraig Riley would welcome their on-air deaths because the ratings and content for the station would be worth their untimely demise.
“He’d have seven different web articles about every angle of one of his hosts dying on the air,” Mueller joked.
