Bob Costas on the future of football: 'This game destroys people's brains'

[DanT]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ins/842904001/

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Originally Posted by USA Today article

As far as longtime sports broadcaster Bob Costas is concerned, the future of football in the United States is clear — and bleak.

“The reality is that this game destroys people’s brains," he said Tuesday night.

Speaking at a roundtable discussion at the University of Maryland, Costas, who hosted Football Night in America on NBC for more than a decade, said the sport could collapse over time, barring a development in technology to make it reasonably safe. He said the decline of football, which was once “a cash machine,” is the most significant story in American sports.

“The cracks in the foundation are there,” Costas said. “The day-to-day issues, as serious as they may be, they may come and go. But you cannot change the nature of the game. I certainly would not let, if I had an athletically gifted 12- or 13-year-old son, I would not let him play football.”

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

You're right about all the other stuff but 6' 210 is like the perfect size for a safety.

Also, I might add, that this guy was not, in any way, shape or form, built like a safety.

Short arms, short legs, body of a defensive lineman of the time, which I should have clarified when I made that comment so it wouldn't have led down this path.

[WhiteWhale]

People forget that a lot of these young athletes come from significantly horrific situations and sports are their only way to escape.

Most people in that situation will take the risk.

Most NFLers don't' come from gated communities.

[BigRichard]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

People forget that a lot of these young athletes come from significantly horrific situations and sports are their only way to escape.

Most people in that situation will take the risk.

Most NFLers don't' come from gated communities.

I would also like to point out that players in the NFL, on average, live longer healthier lives than do a person not in the NFL. I had put a story talking about the study here on CP in the last year or two. So just because they have a higher risk of these concussions doesn't mean they aren't prone to a healthier life. It isn't exactly a cause and effect thing as anyone who worked out and ate like an NFL safety would probably have the same outcome. I am just saying the benefits outweight the risk here.

[Luke Atamadong]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Watching the Herm years messed mine up.

The Tyler Palko start was the high water mark for our ineptitude as a franchise. The Herm years were bad, but man that game AND season was a JOKE.

[crayzkirk]

I am wondering where the studies are on the effects of long term usage of steroids, prescription pain killers and other drugs on the brains of athletes combined with the repeated head injuries. Some of them are impossible to avoid, like the head hitting the turf or multiple collisions. The problem, IMO, with a lot of scientific studies is that they decide what they are looking for and then find the data to back it up. Most scientific discoveries are not the EUREKA! type, they are more of the WTF JUST HAPPENED? type.

Why is boxing still allowed when the entire purpose of the sport is to give your opponent a concussion?

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by Luke Atamadong

The Tyler Palko start was the high water mark for our ineptitude as a franchise. The Herm years were bad, but man that game AND season was a JOKE.

Looks like someones got their mult game on.

[RippedmyFlesh]

Originally Posted by Luke Atamadong

The Tyler Palko start was the high water mark for our ineptitude as a franchise. The Herm years were bad, but man that game AND season was a JOKE.

He was 1-3 but we will always have chicago. Did you want castle?

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by jaa1025

Go back to the leather helmets and people won't be using their helmets to tackle.

Ditka was right. He said to take the facemasks off

[MahiMike]

Jerry Richardson sold at the peak.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Watching the Herm years messed mine up.

Yeah. Then there's all the concussions.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Luke Atamadong

The Tyler Palko start was the high water mark for our ineptitude as a franchise. The Herm years were bad, but man that game AND season was a JOKE.

Yeah.

Way worse than players killing themselves at Arrowhead and fans flying banners?

Don't know about that.

More hyperbole from people who don't know what words mean...

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I was an executive at Paramount Pictures for nearly a decade and worked at Universal before that.

I bet you were George! Your posting history showing severe lack of emotional maturity and many insecurities in responses to others say's otherwise.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Holy shit, you're ****ing stupid.
Your dumbassery knows no bounds. Butt****ing moron should be your middle name. Because you're too ****ing stupid to know for yourself.

You really need to deal with your insecurities in a much different way George.

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Your emotional IQ barely registers which is very sad. When someone espouses a difference of opinion or has a different take you have this incessant emotional need to ridicule because your sooooo emotionally insecure when others differ from you. Whether it be a POV you didn't think of or stealing your thunder, or reminding others of your POV taking credit for yourself being very self-serving which you are very notorious for not to mention very pretentious. You really see yourself as BMOCPKIAB(Big Man on Chiefs Planet Know It All Bully) and you really believe you have an audience/fan club here that begs for your opinions on football and you will protect this "delusional ideation" at all costs because ONLY YOUR PERSPECTIVE IS ACCURATE and no one else. You really see yourself as the smartest guy in the room.

CP is the only thing in your life where you feel like a 'somebody' because in real life you feel like a 'nobody'. And your name calling and ridiculing others proves it. You emotional beat down others who differ from you as a few of your "lemmings just like you" pile on 'thinking' you look really cool in front of others. When in reality the majority here just at your "douchebag" behavior and see right through you. You fool nobody. You significantly shut down discussion and not because many are intimidated but because why put up with your "severe insecure idiocy". We all have insecurities because we are human, but how you deal with those insecurities determines whether you become comfortable in your own skin thus respected by others or continuing to take your insecurities out on others being "that guy".

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

"Was" seems to be a common theme here.

NFL players are bigger at their positions in 2018 than in 2008 just as 205 pound defensive tackles playing for a Hall of Fame College coach in 1988 are extinct and have been replaced by 300-350 pound defensive lineman.

I made this post first, actually.

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Eric Berry is 6' 212

Earl Thomas is 5'10 185

Devin McCourty is 5'10 195

In either case, 6' 210 pounds is perfectly acceptable for a safety in today's NFL.

We can drop it, though. It's really not a big deal.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

I bet you were George! Your posting history showing severe lack of emotional maturity and many insecurities in responses to others say's otherwise.

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

You really need to deal with your insecurities in a much different way

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

Your emotional IQ barely registers which is very sad. When someone espouses a difference of opinion or has a different take you have this incessant emotional need to ridicule because your sooooo emotionally insecure when others differ from you. Whether it be a POV you didn't think of or stealing your thunder, or reminding others of your POV taking credit for yourself being very self-serving which you are very notorious for not to mention very pretentious. You really see yourself as BMOCPKIAB(Big Man on Chiefs Planet Know It All Bully) and you really believe you have an audience/fan club here that begs for your opinions on football and you will protect this "delusional ideation" at all costs because ONLY YOUR PERSPECTIVE IS ACCURATE and no one else. You really see yourself as the smartest guy in the room.

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

CP is the only thing in your life where you feel like a 'somebody' because in real life you feel like a 'nobody'. And your name calling and ridiculing others proves it. You emotional beat down others who differ from you as a few of your "lemmings just like you" pile on 'thinking' you look really cool in front of others. When in reality the majority here just at your "douchebag" behavior and see right through you. You fool nobody. You significantly shut down discussion and not because many are intimidated but because why put up with your "severe insecure idiocy". We all have insecurities because we are human, but how you deal with those insecurities determines whether you become comfortable in your own skin thus respected by others or continuing to take your insecurities out on others being "that guy".