Trying to rifle off the highlights for Week 7’s early slate proved troublesome for Terry Bradshaw.
So much so, that Curt Menefee had to tag in for the former longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback when overlaying Buffalo Bills-Tennessee Titans highlights.
Perhaps he had the wrong copy in front of him, but what Bradshaw said didn’t match what the viewers at home were seeing.
It happened to be the following game shown before the start of Fox’s Game of the Week (Chiefs-49ers), but Bradshaw was talking about Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb when Fox showed Amari Cooper on the screen. Yes, Cooper had just been traded from the Browns to the Buffalo Bills, but it took Bradshaw about five or six seconds to recognize he was talking about the wrong game.
“Whoops, wrong one,” said Bradshaw as Menefee came to the rescue.
When the Cincinnati Bengals’ 21-14 win over the Browns was finally on screen, Chubb wasn’t the subject — even if Bradshaw aimed to talk about him. As viewers at home saw Deshaun Watson suffer a non-contact injury, feared as an Achilles injury (something Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski all but confirmed postgame), Bradshaw said, “There’s Chubb, coming inside.”
Except Chubb wasn’t on screen during Watson’s QB Draw, the play on which he suffered the injury. Fox did show Chubb as an interlude to the game’s highlights, but the veteran running back, in his first game back from a knee injury, wasn’t anywhere in the highlights.
Bradshaw certainly tried, but again, Menefee took over.
As Bradshaw was passed the baton to discuss the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 32-16 win over the New England Patriots across the pond, he mentioned that Trevor Lawrence and Co. were trying to make it two in a row. While they won on Sunday, the Jaguars lost 35-16 to the Chicago Bears in an absolute drubbing a week prior.
This isn’t the first time Bradshaw has struggled doing postgame highlights, nor was it his first gaffe this season. The 76-year-old Bradshaw credited ‘Rasheed Wallace’ with a touchdown earlier in the year and debuting a curious southern accent, losing it over Caleb Williams’ painted nails, and suggesting that perhaps the Browns should Old Yeller Watson.
Now, Boomer Esiason, amongst others, has previously mentioned Bradshaw stumbling through highlights, but these recent flubs are becoming more frequent and harder to overlook.
About Sam Neumann
Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.