Pro Football HOFer and Fox NFL studio analyst Jimmy Johnson is retiring from his role with the network, making his announcement on FS1’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” Monday. Johnson said he had been thinking about retiring “for the last four or five years.” Johnson: “I’m going to miss it. I’m going to miss all the guys, and I’ll see them occasionally, but it has been a great run starting back 31 years ago” (“The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” FS1, 3/3). Johnson first joined Fox Sports in 1994 and worked there for two years, then later returned to Fox NFL Sunday in 2002 following his stint as coach of the Dolphins. Just a few weeks ago, ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Fox Sports aired a tribute video to Johnson that included AI elements from vendor Hyperreal. Speculation following that tribute forced a Fox spokesperson to say that the tribute wasn’t a formal retirement piece and that the network was just showing appreciation for Johnson’s work (SBJ). Johnson made the call “a few days ago” to Fox Sports execs. Fox “asked him to take more time to decide, then suggested considering a smaller TV role” — maybe a “half-dozen cross-country trips for their Sunday studio show next season,” less, “if he wanted.” But Johnson, who will turn 82 this summer, made it clear he was “retiring for good this time.” Johnson’s career in football spanned three HOFs, two Super Bowls in Dallas, a national championship at the Univ. of Miami and “a few decades of translating football to American television sets for an award-winning show” (South Florida SUN SENTINEL, 3/3). .