Steeler legend Terry Bradshaw says he was no hero. He was just an ordinary passenger like everyone else, disputing claims by a fellow passenger that he helped open a stuck door on a flight from Texas to Pittsburgh.
“Who would’ve thought this would’ve happened today? I don’t think it was on anyone’s bingo cards,” passenger Selah Holland said.
That’s what Holland, a passenger on a flight from Fort Worth, told KDKA-TV after arriving in Pittsburgh Thursday on the same flight as Bradshaw, who is in town for an event Friday night.
The door to their plane was stuck, and the crew and passengers couldn’t get off the plane for nearly half an hour.
“There were a lot of Steelers fans on board, of course, so it was kinda funny because I think people had been making jokes that he should help bust down the door,” Holland said.
“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.
But Bradshaw’s team tells KDKA-TV as much as they wish it was him, it wasn’t. They confirm he was on the flight, and the door was stuck, but say Bradshaw sat patiently in his seat like everyone else and waited for maintenance to arrive.
After saving a city and a franchise, no heroics were needed on Flight 2664.
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story indicated Mr. Bradshaw opened the plane’s door, based on a first-hand account from a passenger.