Longtime NBC Sports broadcaster Bob Costas said Tuesday that football "destroys people's brains" during a roundtable discussion at the University of Maryland.
Tom Schad of USA Today passed along further comments from Costas, who called the NFL's decline the "most significant story" on the current American sports landscape.
"The cracks in the foundation are there," he said when discussing the sport's future. "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.