There’s a good side and a bad side to a Super Bowl. The good side is the excitement it brings to all football fans who wait patiently for the biggest game of the year. Then, there’s a bad side, which comes in the form of sadness. Once the Super Bowl is over, it means an end to the football season. With that being said, the fans move on with their respective lives. The players go for vacations. But the ones who are hit the hardest are the voices behind the microphone. Take, for instance, long-time Fox Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews—she is already missing her work, colleagues, and especially Charissa Thompson.

On February 14th, when her best friend, Charissa Thompson, shared a couple of photos and clips on Instagram from their Super Bowl LIX coverage titled “Super Bowl Part 1.” Andrews couldn’t control her emotions remembering her time on the set with Thompson as she commented, “The best time with you.” The bond Andrews shares with Thompson, who know each other from their early days with ESPN, is no secret.

You would probably have to go back to 2011 when Andrews and Thompson met for the first time at ESPN; as Thomson recalls, “The first time Erin and I met was on my first day at ESPN. We had passed each other at different venues that we had worked like the Big Ten Tournament, but we did properly know each other.” She even added on their podcast Calm Down, which they have been co-hosting together since 2021, how Andrews made her feel welcome at ESPN, “We weren’t friends at that point. My first day at ESPN. I was walking through the door when she came running out. She gave me a big hug, and said, I’m here for anything you need anything I can do to help support you.”

Well, from that moment on, there was nothing that could have come in between them. As Thompson reiterated, “We’ve been best friends ever since.” Both Thompson and Andrews were soon reunited on Fox Sports Network after they left ESPN. Charissa joined them as their presenter for the NFL kickoff. While Andrews became a global contributor to Fox NFL Sunday coverage with her breakdowns directly from the gridiron.

Now, the two of them would surely miss their giggle on the sets while covering games. But Andrews wasn’t the only one who had a farewell message as part of the Fox Crew. Terry Bradshaw also decided to address his retirement plans at age 76.

Terry Bradshaw sets the record straight on his retirement plans

All year, fans have been quick to call out Bradshaw for his lackluster broadcasting duties. And that trend continued into the Super Bowl, where Bradshaw’s hands were captured trembling while interviewing Nick Sirianni after their Super Bowl victory. “Terry Bradshaw is shaking really bad,” one fan pointed out. But it seems the 3-decade-old Fox analyst doesn’t have any plans to quit his job.

He may well go on for another 4 years until the next time Fox hosts a Super Bowl. “I told my wife before I left the room a while ago. I’m sitting there. I said. I’ve got two years left at Fox. I’m 76. Okay, so it’s young man’s game. I get that. Everybody wants the new. If we can get to the next Super Bowl on Fox. I’ll be 80. I think that’s time. 80 years old, that’s pushing it.” Judging by Bradshaw’s thoughts about pushing till 80, he may actually do it, you know.

He even once joked about dying on air just for the sake of ratings, “I told Fox. I could just die on the show, think about the ratings, right? Are we not about ratings? That’d be huge. Not only that, there would be a huge carryover.” At this point, it’s difficult to guess whether Bradshaw is just stubborn or likes his job too much. Maybe it’s a combination of both for someone who has spent all his life from playing to speaking football.