On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:12 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Moi, 8/10/17:
>>
>>
>> NBC, who holds both, gave the latter to Bobbo... the Minnesota tiff comes
>> a lot closer to Pyeongchang than, say, the last one there did to CBS'
>> Albertville coverage...
>>
>> Awful Announcing
>> <http://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/mike-tirico-skip-super-bowl-prepare-olympics.html>
>> (link)
>>
>>
>> Perusing a sports discussion site early today, I noticed one poster,
> quoting some sports-buzz tweeting type, noting Costas was pulled from the
> SB pregame as well, reportedly from lingering grudges over a roundtable
> where he appeared in November at a major university, there calling football
> not long for this world thanks to "destroy[ing] people's brains"... USA
> TODAY
> <https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/11/08/bob-costas-future-football-nfl-this-game-destroys-peoples-brains/842904001/>
> (link) was among many who reported on the talk (the "PTI" guys were also on
> the panel), and I found the report of his removal in favor of Dan Patrick
> at the NY Daily News
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/bob-costas-left-nbc-super-bowl-coverage-article-1.3772975>
> (link) dated Monday...
>

Costas has said openly in interviews that he no longer wants to cover
football and NBC is okay with that.

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