When Terry Bradshaw talks, you're never quite sure where he's headed to, but you know that the journey will be worthwhile.
In a recent interview with Colin Cowherd on FS1, Bradshaw was asked if he remembers how he felt as he trotted onto the field and began to play in his first of four eventual Super Bowl wins. His answer veered off the beaten path, just a bit.
"It was Tulane Stadium...we were lined up going through the crowd...there was a roped off area...the defense was being introduced and the Vikings fans were there giving us the business and there were some Steelers fans," Bradshaw recalled. "And this one big, giant Viking fan...because it was really cold...it was hot as all get out the day before, rained that night and got really cold...and this Viking fan on the right...big, fat guy collapses and falls right in my way, right in front of me to go out on the field. And I looked down at him, and he just had a heart attack. And I'm like 'Oh my god, this guy's had a heart attack.' And I was just shocked. And we moved the rope around the body, while the paramedics came to him. I don't know if he lived, I don't know if he died, but nice way to start a Super Bowl."
Given that the game was played in January of 1975, we're probably not going to get a resolution on what happened to the fan.
To his credit, Bradshaw wasn't flustered by the traumatic scene that he was exposed to before taking the field. Though the Steelers leaned more on Franco Harris and their running game in Super Bowl IX, Bradshaw managed the game very well, throwing for a touchdown and rushing for 33 yards himself. Chuck Noll's Steelers defeated Bud Grant's Vikings, 16-6. It was the first of four Super Bowl titles that Bradshaw and the Steelers would win in a six-season stretch.
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