Jimmy Johnson, a legend of NFL training and a main figure on “Fox NFL Sunday”, announced on Monday that it will withdraw from broadcasting.
Johnson joined Fox Sports in 1994. He joined the network after the end of his Miami Dolphins training. He would appear regularly with Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long and later Michael Strahan and Rob Gronkowski to offer a pre-match, half-time and post-match analysis of the NFL Games.
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The 81-year-old Super Bowl’s double champion of the double champion of the Super Bowl, revealed on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” that the 2024 season would be the last.
“I made an extremely difficult decision, I have been thinking about it for four or five years, and I decided to retire from Fox,” he said. “I will miss it. I’m going to miss all guys. It was a great race that started 31 years ago.”
The CEO of Fox Sports, Eric Shanks, described Johnson’s “retirement” as “bitterness”.
“Jimmy Johnson was there when” Fox NFL Sunday “came to the air for the first time 31 years ago, and since then has been a darling member of our Fox Sports family, which makes the news of today’s retiree,” Shanks said in a statement.
Fox Sports analysts “NFL Sunday” Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson, and the Fox co-host “NFL Sunday” Terry Bradshaw watched before the Super Bowl Lix between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City leaders in Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025. (Images Geoff Burke-Imagn)
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“Jimmy served as inspiration for the generations of football fans with his legendary boastful, his unique insight and his signature humor. From his motivating speeches as PEP to his unequaled energy over the years, he was our coach who has always pushed us to be better. News he was inducted at the temple of the fame of professional football – an opportunity that we will never forget.
“We will sincerely miss the coach and we wish him the best when he retired, as only Jimmy Johnson can.”
From left to right, the former Cowboys of Dallas Michael Irvin, Jimmy Johnson and Emmitt Smith react during the Ring of Honor ceremony at the half-time of the match against the Lions of Detroit at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas, December 30, 2023. (Tim Heitman-USA TODAY SPORTS)
Bradshaw and Long are the only other teammates who have been in the series since its creation in 1994. Pam Oliver joined the cover of the Fox NFL in 1995.
