As a four-time Super Bowl champion and two-time Super Bowl MVP, Terry Bradshaw played the role of hero many times in his Hall of Fame career.
On Thursday, long after his playing days, he reprised that position again — for travelers trapped in a plane at Pittsburgh International Airport.
According to Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV, Bradshaw helped open a door that was stuck for about 30 minutes. The Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer was in the first row of a flight that took off from Dallas-Fort Worth.
“The pilot announced and you could kind of hear he was chuckling as he said it, but he said ‘thanks to the strength of one of our passengers, we were finally able to get the door open’ and I think we all knew he was alluding to Mr. Bradshaw,” Selah Gamble told KDKA-TV.
“I mean honestly I was just ready to get off the flight, but the guy next to me had made the joke that they should have him bust down the door and I was like, well maybe he could a few years ago, so I’m definitely eating my words,” Gamble said.
According to KDKA-TV, Bradshaw is in town for Hall of Fame defensive back Mel Blount’s roast, which will take place Friday and also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Steelers’ first Super Bowl.
Bradshaw, a FOX NFL Sunday co-host, has two years left on his contract with FOX. He hopes the next Super Bowl FOX hosts in 2029 will be his last as a broadcaster.
“It’s a young man’s game,” Bradshaw told reporters before Super Bowl LIX. “I get that. … So I said (to my wife) if we can get to the next Super Bowl, I’ll be 80. That’s, I think that’s time.”
