Bob Costas says football, at least as we know it, may soon "collapse like a house of cards" because of one "fundamental fact": "This game destroys people's brains."
USA Today reports the Emmy award-winning sports broadcaster and former host of Football Night in Americacalled the decline of the NFL as a "cash machine" the biggest story in American sports while speaking Tuesday at the University of Maryland.
And Costas said that decline is not about athletes' knees but their brains. "Unless and until there is some technology which we cannot even imagine, let alone has been developed, that would make this inherently dangerous game not marginally safer, but acceptably safe, the cracks in the foundation are there," the Washington Post quotes Costas as saying.
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