Anderson retired from football in 1963 and joined the Tennessee staff as an assistant coach.

However, he temporarily put his retirement plans on hold and signed with the Green Bay Packers in 1965.

The comeback was a good thing for him as the Packers won the 1965 and 1966 NFL Championships and he subsequently earned a Super Bowl ring when the Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967.

In 1968, Anderson returned to Tennessee as color analyst for football games on the Vol Network, partnered with play-by-play announcer John Ward.

Ward and Anderson would remain together for 31 years, the longest-running broadcast partnership in college football at the time.