He says he regretted doing an interview with ESPN’s Mark Fainaru-Wada, in which he said “everyone walks on eggshells about the NFL.” Costas said everything in the interview was true, and never brought up his NBC bosses during the interview.
Costas had made comments about football and concussion three months before Super Bowl 52, when he said, “This game destroys people’s brains.” Within a week, he was told he would be pulled off the telecast.
“I didn’t care (about hosting Super Bowl). I cared more about where I would go for dinner that night,” Costas said. “But naturally that’s the way idiots framed it. I didn’t give a (expletive) damn.”
Costas also said he turned down a $20 million per year deal in 2007 as Don Imus’ replacement on syndicated radio and MSNBC after Imus was fired for racial remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
