A brand new documentary chronicling the career of four-time Super Bowl Champion Terry Bradshaw debuts Tuesday night on HBO.
“Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep” from award-winning director and Pittsburgh native Keith Cossrow spends a lot of time focusing on Bradshaw’s stage show and entertainment career after football, but also dives into his time with the Steelers.
In a preview, released by HBO, Bradshaw, taken first overall in the 1970 draft says he doesn’t know why the Steelers took him.
Bradshaw also addressed his tenuous relationship with the late Chuck Noll.
I never got really comfortable with my relationship with Chuck. Never was comfortable with him, me and him. Just uncomfortable. I was scared s*itless of him. He scared me to death.
I wasn’t his kind of quarterback, and he wasn’t my kind of coach. Taking me out of the game, putting me back in a game would devastate me. Grab me, yell at me, devastated. Made me stand up in a chair while he chewed my ass out in front of the team. Destroyed me.
He wanted players that were committed, that would work hard, that hated losing. He didn’t want to fall in love. He didn’t want to have you over for dinner… He didn’t want to get like this. And once I realized that, you know, then you just go “F*ck it.”
While his relationship with the Steelers and its fans have softened over the years, he talks about how mad he was after his career was over and the lack of respect he felt.
If there’s one thing in my life I do wish I had… I wish I was loved… and respected. And I understand, I know I don’t deserve this. I just wish I had it, like Brady and like Peyton, Roger Staubach.
But when I sit back in my life as a football player, I never had that kind of respect. And I wish I did. I really do wish I did. When I left Pittsburgh, I was angry. I was pissed. I didn’t have a relationship with the city. I didn’t have a relationship with the ownership.
I didn’t want to face those people, Pittsburgh fans, The Pittsburgh press.
Bradshaw also reveals that Beaver Falls native Joe Namath was his favorite player.
My favorite player was Joe Namath.
That was the guy I wanted to be like, was Joe Namath. No second guy or third guy. It was Joe Namath. I wanted to be Broadway Terry. Serious. I loved him. I wanted to be adored like Joe Namath. He had the hunched shoulder, you know, and he had the greatest release, the coolest way of getting rid of the football.
And he is just amazing. And he did movies! You know, and he was charismatic, and everybody flocked to him.
The stage show interwoven into the documentary was filmed at the Clay Cooper Theater in Branson, Missouri.
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