Terry Bradshaw may deal with most cancers, however pity was unthinkable.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and four-time Super Bowl winner, 74, informed the “Today” present Wednesday that he feared folks feeling sorry for him in the event that they knew he’d been recognized with most cancers a second time in lower than a yr.
“I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want pity,” mentioned Bradshaw. “I think the perception around America with all the millions of people is, ‘Oh, look at him. Bless his heart. He has cancer. Well my husband died of cancer. My kids or —’ I didn’t want that. It took me a long time before I told my family.”
In September, the “Fox NFL Sunday” co-host revealed on the present — on which he’d earlier discovered himself breathless whereas reenacting performs from some video games — that he had been recognized early with bladder most cancers and, subsequently, the uncommon and aggressive pores and skin most cancers referred to as a Merkel cell tumor. Though he’s recovered from the previous, of which he “never was scared,” the latter did concern him.
“Listen, cancer shows no favoritism,” mentioned Bradshaw. “As a man of faith, as a Christian, my attitude was, ‘Well, if I go, I’m OK. If I stay, I’m OK.’”
While he “may have 25, 30 years left,” Bradshaw mentioned, he added that he’s going to stay life as if he’s “got one.”
“We’re gonna go to Europe. We’re gonna go to Paris. Gonna go to wherever we wanna go,” he mentioned alongside spouse Tammy. “I’m gonna get all this in because I feel like I don’t want to put this off anymore.”
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