(WHTM) – Longtime Fox NFL Sunday analyst and Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson was honored with a recap of his football career during the Super Bowl pregame show.

The segment featured AI versions of Johnson through his career as a player and coach.

Coming out of the segment, Johnson thanked his family and was asked on the broadcast if this was “goodbye.”

“One day at a time,” said the 81-year-old Johnson, noting this was the “happiest time’ of his life.

Johnson won two Super Bowls as a head coach with the Dallas Cowboys and was the first football coach to win a college National Championship with the University of Miami and a Super Bowl. He also coached at Oklahoma State and served in multiple front office roles including Vice-chairman, President, and CEO of the Miami Dolphins.

Johnson is a member of the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the College Football Hall of Fame. He won the AP Coach of the Year in 1990 and won 80 of his 144 games as an NFL head coach.

Johnson originally joined Fox in 1994 as an analyst.

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