Terry Bradshaw Unamused by 'Ridiculous' Treatment by TSA

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Jack Gorman | Last updated Jun 17, 2025 6:05 PM ET

Commercial airline travel has become increasingly burdensome for everyone over the last couple of decades. It appears that even the highest-profile celebrities are not immune to this fact, either.

Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox Sports NFL Analyst Terry Bradshaw got a large dose of this on Monday Morning. The 76-year-old Pittsburgh Steeler legend was the subject of one of those extra serious security searches at the Springfield-Branson National Airport.

Bradshaw expressed his understandable annoyance to the person he was traveling with, who documented the experience on a video on Facebook.

“I'm not against being safe but... this is ridiculous!” Bradshaw said on the video. “Had the body pat down, all the luggage checked, unpacked item by item. Now going into private room for ANOTHER pat down.”

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As unhappy as Bradshaw was, he fully cooperated with the TSA staff, even cracking a joke as he walked off with a staff member.

The quarterback seems to be a magnet for interesting air travel stories. In April, Bradshaw apparently unjammed the exit door of the airplane, releasing a number of passengers who had been trapped for a long period of time. Selah Holland, a passenger on the flight, relayed the story to the New York Post:

“The pilot announced, and you could kind of hear he was chuckling as he said it, but he said, ‘Thanks to the strength of one of our passengers, we were finally able to get the door open,’ and I think we all knew he was alluding to Mr. Bradshaw,” Holland said.

Bradshaw himself disputed this version of the story, writing “I did nothing to open the door on the plane!” in an Instagram post. He credited the maintenance crew instead.

Bradshaw was in Branson for "The Terry Bradshaw Show," a live act which is made up of the quarterback telling stories and singing.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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