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They now have a fifty four forty four lead in the Senate, and looks like they pulled slightly ahead by just. I mean, I think it's fifty votes in Mississippi. Mississippi, my goodness, that's known as a Republican area. And Dan Sullivan has fallen behind just barely in the Alaska race, which is going to take some time because of the nature of the topography there. And this.
If you don't get fifty percent, they go to a ranked choice voting. They'll go to the second, who put who, and the second in the second slot on your ballot. Keep in mind too, one point four percent of the vote went to the fake Dan Sullivan. Don't tell me that anybody wanted that guy to win. That has to be a total.
That's a total ruse, and people got to people got to get in trouble for that. I just don't know if they could do anything for the election. One of my favorite old-time people I have a chance to meet since I got this job is four-time Super Bowl champ Terry Bradshaw. He's got a brand new book out now. It's a brand new memoir called "Looking for Terry." Terry is taking a time out from getting ready for Fox Fox Sports Sunday to in order to join me.
And he wore a hoodie, which just makes you that's that is the look. That is the look that I expect you to have when you're not on camera. Is that you, Terry? On no, but hey, Brian, look, it says Yale. Yeah, was that your senior?
Is that from your graduate? When you got your graduate degree from there? No, no, no. When I got my master's. Oh, that's your master's.
Okay, that's my my fault. I apologize. I'll edit that out. No, I had to put this on, man. It got cold here in Texas.
Oh, wow. And I was calling. And prior to you coming on, I was listening about the dogs. I got five dogs in my office. I love my dogs every morning.
And I got a loud mouth African gray bird sitting over here to the right. I don't know when. He's going to kick in, so yeah, I'm. I'm kind of a pet guy, so I go to work happy. You do go to work happy.
You always seem happy too, Terry. I want to spend most of the time talking about the Giants' resurgence and revival, but I do want to talk about your book too. There was a moment on, and it has to do with you being honest about about different bouts you have with depression. The guy that's always happy with four Super Bowls seems to have it all, but some you're dealing with other elements. Jay Glazer talked about one of his great times on your set.
He's one of your colleagues. Let's listen. Coolest moment I ever had here at Fox, my entire life, is for Christmas, a couple years ago, and you just walk over to me and say, "Hey, Bob, I'm struggling. I just need to tell someone who gets it. I want to talk about.
I just need to tell someone. It felt better." And that's why I want people to understand. Get this book. He was one of the first guys to talk about it. Open up.
But he talked about it. You're going to laugh, right? He definitely a little more vulnerable. But that for me, I didn't tell you until the other night. Yeah.
Probably the greatest moment of my life. And I, I couldn't. I remember I looked at you and I turned my head away, and you said, "No, you look at me. I'm giving you a compliment." I couldn't take the compliment, so I really do appreciate it, Jay, because we both struggle with clinical depression, and and I think that Jay came on with me three years ago, was it, when he talked about his book. And talked about what he was going through.
That must be great to have somebody who understands you on every level, professional and personal, right by your side. You know, you know, Brian. Jay knew about my depression years before his diagnosis, and we used to talk all the time. And then he he all of a sudden. Maybe not all of a sudden, but he started having some real tough moments in his life.
But we had to talk quietly, one on one. Because the stigma of depression is, in our opinion, and at least in my early experience, was so frowned on. It was so, it was so personal. People thought, "Oh my God, this! I don't want anything to do with this person." Depression.
So they actually thought they could catch it. It was the stupidest thing ever. And when you go through as much. As I went through for years without anybody knowing it, and all the help I sought, and then Jay, Jay knew about it, and we were able to bond. Even today, we're actually closer friends now than ever because we both are.
We both experience, and there goes the bird, and the same, the same mental illness, and we have each other. To to lean on, and so he, I can't tell you the number of times. Seriously, where Jay has come up to me and he said, "Hey, Bub, you can you pray for me today? I'm really, I'm having, I'm having a moment." I said, "Absolutely," because I have moments too, and I don't, I, I go to my wife. I don't have.
Anybody I can walk up to and say, "Here on this ranch, hey, hey, will you pray for me today? I'm struggling. My wife's the only one that knows that." I told him, "Here are the signs, and he's he's starting to go into that hole." Jack.
So the relationship to answer your question between the two of us. Is so strong, based primarily on our depression. And the book goes through your Super Bowls, it goes through your cancer, back to cancer, being on the set, and all those years.
So let me ask him. When I talk to Jay, he's always upbeat in real life. I knew him when he was a reporter at the New York Post, and it was not a bad day that the guy had. And then you see him on the Super Bowl, and he seems like every day seems so important to him. Look at what he's done with his career, and I look at you on and off camera.
I don't think I've ever met anyone happier. Are you acting? Are you acting when I see you on television? When I see you in the green room? Oh, absolutely not, Brian.
I've said this to people because I say, "Well, how can you have depression because you're always happy?" I choose to be happy. I choose to be happy. I I am a naturally uplifting guy. I I crawl out of bed feeling great, or or or looking on the positive. I go through my life laughing and and enjoying life.
But I struggle. But I I choose to fight and and to basically you learn how to hide it. But no. What happens with depression? It doesn't rob you of your personality; it's there.
And one of the things you'll find out about people that are clinically depressed, like myself, is when we get focused on something, we lock in. All right, we lock in.
So if I'm fishing, I'm locked in. If I'm judging horses, I'm locked in. No matter what kind of day I'm having, so I can I can control certain amount of it. But it's when you're not focused on something you really enjoy, that's when the heaviness takes over and makes you sick at your stomach.
So. Yeah, I'm a happy guy. I'm always going to be a happy guy. Just having illness.
So when I when I I was sports fan since the day I was born, I think, and I remember watching you. You're older than me, but I watching you and your time. But I remember there were four quarterbacks in the Steelers, and it looks for a while that you weren't going to get that starting job. Right, John Gillum started for a while. Terry Handrady, Handrady started for a while.
You threw, I guess, people were saying you threw too many interceptions, took too many chances.
Well, people just remember the four Super Bowls in the dynasty and the offense as good as. Right, but but how did you handle knowing that you could tend to see things, depression in your twenties and thirties? How did you handle when people were telling you you weren't good enough? The problem was, Brian, I didn't know I was. Clinically depressed.
I didn't know. I thought it was just. Listen, you lose a loved one. You have something bad happen to in your life. Every human being alive is going through depression.
It's those of us that that it is a recurring thing. No matter what. No matter how our life is going, it's there and it comes upon you. Those times were hard. I went.
I actually, I actually went to prayer. And I did not know what was wrong with me. I did not know why things were affecting me the way they should. I should have been stronger, more vocal, more in control. And I couldn't.
I didn't understand it. And so I just sought solace in prayer. I felt that God—not that I was going to be great—I just felt like. That with being a Christian, I just felt like I could I could survive, I could endure. I wasn't trying to win a Super Bowl back then.
I was I was trying to figure out my life. I was twenty two, twenty three year old kid, very immature. Went to a small school, not used to so not used to the media or anything like that. Everything was new to me. I didn't understand being booed.
I didn't understand being bent. I didn't understand a coach telling his starting quarterback, "If you play bad in the first quarter, I'm jerking your ass out of the game." I don't respond to that. Yeah, but if you love me, if you love me up, if you hug me up, if you If you feed me positive, man, I'll run through the wall and I'll and I'll exceed all expectations.
So, as great as Chuck Noll is, well, they say that Parcells was like that—that he could pick out that personality and say, "I can't ride this guy." But as great as Chuck Noll was, he did not—he did not disseminate that maybe this is not working for Terry. Right. I I found out later. After he had passed away, I found out that he had told one of the offensive coaches, "I'm going to ride him hard. I'm going to tear him down.
You, you build him up." He wanted. He listen to Chuck's credit. He knew I was immature. He knew he had to toughen me up. He knew.
He knew I had talent. But he knew that also. I was extremely immature. He would tell me, "You got to play like Bob Griese. I want you to be like Johnny Unitas.
I want this. I want that." And I'm just like, "Why have I got to be all these people?" I'm just, I'm, I'm who I am. I'm a freelance quarterback. I play by the seat of my pants. Like Brett Favre, like the Brett Favre style.
Give me some yeah similar yeah. I was a gunslinger. I liked to throw it deep. I hated five yards. Back in my era, completion percentage, Brian was not that big a deal.
It was winning. It was not well. He completed seventy percent.
Well, it's it's passer rating is this. I never cared. Those things weren't brought up. What was brought up was winning, and that's why. You win, you win Super Bowls, and you're calling your own plays.
And the image of being dumb, which should have been shot and thrown away, because those are tough things to do—is call, call the right play in a pressure moment, and and excel and succeed at it. And after a while, you just get, you get so beat up by people. That are saying, well, now you won because of the running game. Absolutely, you won because of great defense. Absolutely, but let me stop you right there.
What great team, Tom Brady included, didn't have great people around him and didn't have great defense and great coaching? We all have the same formula. That's why I say on Fox pregame show, give me some defense, give me a running game. Give me a quarterback with talent. I'm gonna win ball game.
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Coverage subject to policy terms and conditions. Yeah, you almost get to a point too, whether you have depression or not.
So there's so many critics. You're like, "To hell with it!" Either you give up, yeah, or you say, "I'm not going to listen to any of it," and I'm going to just work my way through it. And then I remember just how much I followed your career, and I told you this on television. Then you became a play by a a color guy with Vern Lundquist before you got the studio show. And I read how you lost all your confidence.
I go, what you lost your confidence, and he built you up and told you you could do this. And I go, wait, he's won four Super Bowls, and he's an actor. He's in these great movies. How could he lose his confidence? But it just shows you it happens to everybody.
Hey, look, Brian. If your boss walks in there today and he's telling you, "Hey, Brian," oh no, man, you're doing a lousy job. I don't know why we hired you. First of all, how did you know that doesn't happen yet?
Well, I don't. But my my point is, is everybody? I think everybody that is successful in life, with few exceptions, obviously, are are people that had to go through some tremendous adversity. And here's the credit. I've I've said this so many times.
I'm most proud of the fact that I didn't give up because I could have. Yep. I was beat up so bad emotionally. I could have. I could have given up, but I got so mad.
And this is. I don't. I'm not proud to tell you this, Brian. But I became a real jerk. Personally, I became a real jerk.
I became a hateful person. Nobody knows this, but I had to find this demon inside of me that could help me fight all this negative, and I had to get. I had to put this wall up, and I had to get so strong. And I'm so proud of the fact that I have I have that wall. I can hide behind that wall.
I can use it to motivate me, and it did. And I got to a point where. Criticism doesn't bother me. That's fine. I get it right now.
Get it all the time. My wife is like, "Oh my God, I can't believe they said this," and I just start laughing. I said, "There's 350 million people in America. If 175, or if that's 150 million, half of them like me. That's great.
Another 150 are going to hate me. That's great. It's just life." I know that. I know that feeling a lot, as you can imagine. You do.
Couple of things about your business, by the way. We're talking to Terry Bradshaw, his best-selling. Book is now out. I'm sharing the bestseller list with you, so I'm a little bit angry. I'm competitive.
We have very similar stories. You talk about depression. I talk about our founding fathers in history. You can actually buy both books. I think you'd recommend that.
He's the author of his brand new memoir, "Looking for Terry." So Terry, I got to say, I asked you something in the news. You know Joe Buck. You know Troy Aikman. It looks like Buck gets a contract, and Aikman didn't, and they're not getting along, and they just basically admit it. They're not even speaking.
You know. These guys, how do you resolve that? I have talked to Buck via text and told him, "I don't. I don't assume everything I'm reading is correct." And I know Troy Aikman well; they're both real good friends of mine. I don't understand.
Because Troy has a big contract now, and Joe Buck got a big contract, and I, I want to, I don't want to believe that it's the money that Buck got that's got Troy upset because Troy's making big money. I don't. I, I have heard that. I've heard. That they were going to go into ESPN together and get a new deal together.
Joe evidently got his before Troy, and that seems to be the rift. It's about money. I find that hard to believe because Troy Aikman, Troy Aikman is, is not like that. He's not like that. And my my understanding right now is things are okay.
Yeah. Okay. But would it bother you if you and Howie would it bother you if you let's say that scenario? Let's say you and Howie say let's stick together, and then it turns out Howie gets a contract and Terry doesn't. Who cares?
I talk to Howie two or three times a week. I I could okay whatever he gets. No matter what we agreed to, we are like brothers. I'm having dinner with he and his wife Friday night when we get to Annapolis. I mean, we are brothers.
We've talked about contracts. We've talked we've talked about our life together. We have have a life together and how we built our relationship and made it so strong and our bond is so good. Whatever he gets, no matter. What we agree to, whatever he gets, whatever I get, he's fine with.
I really don't care. It's it's none of my business. No, what I'm glad about, no, what I'm glad about, oh, you guys getting paid because during your days, during your days, you weren't getting paid nearly what they're getting paid now.
So, you were the best quarterback making two hundred thousand dollars. You're the four time Super Bowl champion. You. Right, I was in Atlanta with with the Rooney family at a table negotiating my contract. After being MVP in the Super Bowl twice and the MVP in the league once, and I looked at them and I asked for five hundred thousand dollars, and they they looked at me straight across the table and they said, "You're not worth five hundred thousand dollars to the Steeler." And I went, "Oh, oh." What am I worth?
Three hundred.
Okay. So I signed. Wow.
So there you go. Maybe three hundred thousand back back then is the new fifty million or whatever. I guess. But you should have been at the top of the game. It just goes to show you had to have a career afterwards, and you had to have a job in the off season in many situations.
Right. Exactly. Congratulations on your book. And I just want one time—if you and I go out to dinner, who pays? At this point, I do.
You do? Oh no, I do.
Okay, because I'm older. I'm a lot older than you. And then, but two, I'm such a big fan of yours. I just no way I would. If I had to borrow the money, just pay for wine bill, I'll do it, brother.
Right. And I know you're John. I know you said something about the Giants earlier. We're probably running out of time. But I love what John Harbaugh is.
Is it amazing? Just same players. It's awesome. It's just a. Isn't it amazing when you get structure and a great.
Yeah, about I'm about to get screamed at. You know what it's like. I know. Terry, congratulations on the book. Go pick it up.
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