Terry Bradshaw’s curious Southern accent attempt surprised Fox NFL co-hosts

If you thought Terry Bradshaw was bad at reading postgame highlights, just wait until you hear the accent he whipped out to preview a game.

Bradshaw was tasked with previewing the Cincinnati Bengals and Carolina Panthers game Sunday afternoon during the NFL on Fox studio show. And as Bradshaw watched Andy Dalton warm up before his second start for the Panthers, he caught his co-hosts off guard with what he described as a “Carolina accent.”

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“Well that’s the question everybody’s asking right now,” Bradshaw said with an accent. “Down in Carolina, Andy Dalton will be facing his former team, the Bengals. And I don’t think anyone predicted what he did last week, 300 yards and three touchdown passes.”

“Is this a Kentucky Fried Chicken ad?” Howie Long asked believing Bradshaw sounded something like Colonel Sanders, while Michael Strahan laughed and added, “It sounds like Roscoe P. Coltrane” from The Dukes of Hazzard.

Amid the confusion, Bradshaw clarified his accent attempt by letting his Fox NFL Sunday co-hosts know, “I’m doing Carolina.”

As Bradshaw has been called out for struggling through his reads and recaps in recent weeks and years, maybe he came up with an accent to help quiet the critics. The charismatic and multitalented Bradshaw, who is from Louisiana, has acted before, but apparently not as a Carolinian.

Mock his Carolina accent all you want, but give Bradshaw credit for one thing. The 76-year-old took a clip of Dalton warming up for arguably the worst team in the NFL that would have otherwise gone completely unnoticed and managed to grab the attention of his co-hosts and the audience. Albeit thanks to a bizarre accent, but it was attention grabbing, nonetheless.

[Fox]