Jimmy Johnson announces retirement from Fox

Jimmy Johnson has retired from Fox's NFL studio show, the network announced Monday.

Johnson, 81, completes one of the most impactful coaching careers in the history of the game -- a career that began as an assistant at Louisiana Tech in 1965. He rose the ranks as a college assistant until landing the Oklahoma State head coaching job in 1979, where he went 29-25-3 with two bowl appearances in five seasons.

That was enough to land him the Miami job, where he inherited a program fresh off the 1983 national championship after Howard Schnellenberger took a job in the USFL -- a move that launched Johnson to stardom. He went 52-9 in five seasons, winning the 1987 national championship. 

Johnson then took over the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones's first hire following his controversial hiring of Tom Landry. After a 1-15 start, Johnson's Cowboys went 7-9 in 1990, 11-5 in 1991, and then won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1992-93. A power struggle between he and Jones pushed Johnson out in March 1994 and into the Fox TV studio, who had just bought the rights to the NFC package. 

Johnson spent two years at Fox, returned to coaching for four seasons with the Miami Dolphins, then retired for good after the 1999 season at age 55. He spent the next quarter century on the Florida Keys for all but NFL weekends.

One of three coaches to win a national championship and a Super Bowl (Pete Carroll and Barry Switzer are the others, and Switzer won his Super Bowl with Johnson's players), Johnson entered the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020. Johnson is the only one of the three to win two Super Bowls. In a testament to the naked jealousy that pushed him out of Dallas and on to television in the first place, Jones did not induct Johnson into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor until 2023.

Johnson's Fox colleagues surprised him on-air with his Hall of Fame selection in 2020. 

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