Terry Bradshaw has worn many hats throughout his career in the world of professional football. While he starred as the starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1970-83 after being the No. 1 pick in the 1970 NFL draft, his career continued well beyond his final playing season.
The 1978 NFL Most Valuable Player also won three Sports Emmy Awards as a studio analyst and was featured on shows such as The NFL Today, Fox NFL Sunday and NFL on Fox, among others.
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During a recent interview with Fox 32 Chicago, Bradshaw opened up about several topics, including battling two different types of cancer, one of which was an extremely rare skin cancer. Thankfully, Bradshaw revealed he’s cancer-free.
The former NFL star explained that he was also diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which led to him battling weight gain after being put on steroids. Since then, Bradshaw reveals that he’s lost 48 points.
“I ended up getting rheumatoid arthritis, and so they put me on steroids, and it took forever to find out what steroid worked,” Bradshaw explained. “And so I put on so much weight and I got big, and I just couldn’t get it off. So Tammy started me on one of those shots.”
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“I’ve been on this shot for about a year now and I’ve lost 48 pounds and now I’m doing periodic, I don’t stay on it.”
It’s great to hear that Bradshaw has a clean bill of health, and he explained that he’s now going in just for preventative treatments from time to time.
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