Childhood Fantasy Turned Nightmare for Paul Rudd After Seeing More of His Favorite Player Terry Bradshaw Than He Would’ve Liked

The Conan show has seen a host of actors, musicians, and athletes on its sets over its close to three decades of being around. Conan O’Brien makes for one of the funniest and most entertaining talk show hosts on American Television. In a candid conversation with Paul Rudd on his show, Steelers’ legendary quarterback Terry Bradshaw got a mention. 

Paul Rudd revisited an old episode of his younger days. He spoke about one of the most traumatic experiences he had as a nine-year-old. It was a serious case of dreams turning into nightmares. 

Antman’s moment with Terry Bradshaw

Paul Rudd has been a Kansas City Chiefs fan. Though he grew up in Kansas, he developed a liking for them only after moving away from the city. However, he stated that his younger self was a Steelers fan. Can’t blame him as The Steelers were a force under Terry Bradshaw and those were their glory years. The Antman hero said those days it was either the Steelers or The Cowboys and he went with the Pittsburgh team.

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When he was nine, Paul had the opportunity every football fan could have ever dreamed of. Through a close friend of his father, he got to visit the Steelers’ locker room post one of their games. 

“I couldn’t even imagine seeing them in real life, these are my heroes. Let alone going into the locker room,” said Rudd as he built up toward his experience. “I walked in and it was the most incredible thing. Because they were all naked.” Paul Rudd went on to describe his traumatic experience, and he was his most animated self while he was at it.

He even went on to describe his moment with the legendary Terry Bradshaw as he said, “he was so nice.” Rudd continued to say that the memory of Bradshaw in a jockstrap is etched into his brain. It is now a sight he can’t really get over. Whenever he sees Terry Bradshaw on live TV. he can only think of his not so fortunate-fortunate moment with him.

Passing on the baton

A die-hard Chiefs fan, Paul Rudd christened his son’s football locker room experience in a similar fashion. He joked about how he has someone to share his trauma with as he took his eight-year-old son to the Chiefs’ locker room and was a guest at a similar show. The Chiefs were all naked in their locker room when they made a pit stop. Well, at least the father-son duo has something funny to bond over when Rudd JR grows up. 

The sight of naked men is the most common thing to find in a men’s locker room. However, the fact that Bradshaw was nice to a random 8-year-old kid, in a compromised position himself, says a lot about the legendary Steeler.

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