What the fuck was going on? It was like someone took all the wind out of the room and then gave Bradshaw the stage after he had finished off his pint of ether. Christ, it was a goddamn embarrasment.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=150940&pagenumber=2
It was touched on here.
What happened?
King of the loudass idiots, Terry Bradshaw, who allegedly has a “NFL Pre-Game Show” went on Leno last night dressed as Santa and proceeded to make a royal ass of himself. Not only does the NFL Pre-Game show suck to high heaven compared to ESPN’s, they don’t even discuss football.
I saw Goldie Hahn go on and on one night about her life on the Tonight Show and I could not turn it off because it was SO BAD. She was yakking on and on as if it was 1968 again and she was cute. She wasn’t.
Leno lamely tried to join in. It is incredible how bad that show is and how bad Leno is at hosting a show like that. He can’t ad lib at all like Letterman or Johnny Carson.
As for Terry Bradshaw, he always flirts with the idiot weatherwoman (Jill Barberee?) on the NFL show.
Lets hope they never get together and procreate.
Bradshaw writes (yeah, like he really writes it) lame books, records lame music, and makes lame commercials. Then he is a Christian even though he keeps getting divorced. Jimmy Kimmel loves to clown him.
All good points djf. Sounds about like most Christians. =)
Wow, that’s a mile-wide generalization. I frankly don’t appreciate it.
I like Leno. He has more heart and he’s not as big a doof.
I imagine there is a reason Terry is on every 6 months or so…People love him.
He is sorta like the crazy uncle in your family.
FWIW, I thought last night was pretty good, but nothing compared to the night he and Jennifer Hewitt were on…funny as hell.
I imagine Bradshaw was hysterical if you were as drunk as he was. You could tell Leno just wanted him to go away. That little red-headed kid was funnier than Bradshaw by light years.
Yeah, Charlie Stewart was great. “Are you gonna interrupt me again?”
Bradhaw is, what Lewis Grizzard once coined, a "SAWB."smart ass white boy He gone do what he do and he don’t care if you like it or not. 
so there!
I thought he was good. Wouldn’t you rather have Terry Bradshaw run around in a Santa suit giving out stupid presents than yet another in an endless line of actors promoting their horrible movies?
That kid is funny… but jesus… did someone take a shovel to him when he was a baby?
Bradshaw was a great quaterback but I think he got hit upside the head a few too many times. He is forever making an ass out of himself. The worst moment I saw (though I didn’t see Leno) was when he “sang” with Paul McCartney before the last Super Bowl.
Haj
Once again…If Leno wanted him to “go away”, he would not have him on regularly. (Beginning in the mid 90’s I believe)
Up front: I’ve never met Terry Bradshaw, have never talked to him, have no idea what he’s REALLY like. So, everything I say here is opinion only, based ons uperficial observation.
I’m 41, old enough to have seen him play and heard him interviewed in his prime, and I can tell you this: in his playing days, he NEVER acted as stupid as he regularly acts on TV now. Just the opposite, in fact!
Remember, in the early 1970s, Bradshaw had a reputation (probably undeserved) for being really dumb. His reputation was so bad, people were taking old Polish jokes and turning them into Terry Bradshaw jokes. It was widely believed he was a brain-dead hick.
Now, Terry was VERY sensitive about that in the 70s, and so, whenever I saw or heard him interviewed, he worked VERY hard to tone down his Southern accent, and to give thoughtful, intelligent, articulate answers to all questions he was asked. On the whole, I always got the feeling he was a serious, intelligent guy.
In his EARLY days as a broadcaster, he STILL seemed to be a thoughtful, intelligent guy. But I think he figured out, after a while, that ex-jock commentators are a dime a dozen. There are a hundred ex-quarterbacks who can speak football-ese and spout of cliches. I think Bradshaw made a conscious decision to start doing a schtick, a la Don Meredith.
I think that, having won 4 Super Bowls, Terry realized he no longer had to worry about what people thought of his intellect. I think he realized that, today, football is show business, and that his job was more about entertaining people than providing serious football commentary and analysis. So, when he goes on TV today, he exaggerates the Southern accent he used to try to stifle. He’s created a redneck, good-old-boy persona, and plays it to the hilt, because he thinks that’s what viewers want to see.
For what little it’s worth, I know people who know Don MEredith, and they all say that the “Dandy Don” we saw on Monday Night Football bears very little resemblance to the real Don Meredith. I have a feeling that the redneck we see on Fox Sports isn’t much like the real Terry BRadshaw, either.
If Terry Bradshaw was a terrorist then he would represent EVERYTHING I hate about mankind.
Ditto Howie Long.
Yeah, but at least Howie Long is HOT…
Astorian - excellent description, I agree 100%.
Others above are mentioning he looks drunk, but to me he looks like he does a line just before he goes on…