Fox Sports analyst Jimmy Johnson looks on before the NFC championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles on Jan. 29, 2023, in Philadelphia. (Chris Szagola / Associated Press)
More than three decades after first making the jump from the NFL sideline to a TV studio, Jimmy Johnson is retiring from his longtime role as an analyst on “Fox NFL Sunday.”
The 81-year-old Johnson made the announcement Monday morning during an appearance on “The Herd With Colin Cowherd.”
“The most fun I ever had in my career, and that’s counting Super Bowls and national championships, was at Fox Sports,” Johnson said. “I have an absolute ball with my friends on the set — best friends I’ve ever had — there with Fox. …”
“But I’ve made an extremely difficult decision. I’ve been thinking about it for the last four or five years, and I’ve decided to retire from Fox. I’m going to miss it. I’m going to miss all the guys, and I’ll see them occasionally. It’s been a great run starting back 31 years ago.”
Fox NFL did not immediately respond to a request for comment on any potential replacements for Johnson.
Johnson was a defensive lineman at the University of Arkansas and helped the Razorbacks win the national title in 1964. He later was named to the school’s all-decade team for the 1960s and was inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame in 1999.
After college, Johnson went into coaching. His first head coaching job was at Oklahoma State from 1979-1983, then he moved on to the University of Miami, where he coached the Hurricanes to the national championship following the 1987.
In 1989, Johnson accepted the Dallas Cowboys job from team owner Jerry Jones, a former teammate from the Arkansas national championship team decades earlier. Following a win over San Francisco in the NFC championship game on Jan. 17, 1993, Johnson solidified his standing in team lore by greeting his players with what has become one of the best known rhetorical questions in the NFL:…
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