If you had any remaining reasons to doubt the extent of the NFL's effort to smother any and all truth-tellers it can exert its significant influence upon, please read this fascinating ESPN Outside the Lines piece about NFL business partner NBC's not-so-subtle blocking of broadcasting legend Bob Costas.
"The reality is that this game destroys people's brains," Costas said during a 2017 sports symposium that went viral and irked both NBC and the NFL.
What you are reading is a face and voice synonymous with sports in America asking you to see the NFL's warts in full.