Costas was unexpectedly removed from covering 2018’s Super Bowl after he denounced football brutality and claimed that the “game ruins people’s brains.”
As reported by The New York Times, in November 2017, while he was speaking at the University of Maryland, Costas’ almost 40-year career with NBC Sports came to an abrupt end; which began when he was a youthful broadcaster and eventually evolved into an elder statesman.
His harsh criticism, while consistent with his previous public statements about the connection between playing football and head trauma, quickly made headlines and put NBC Sports in an awkward spotlight just months before it would air the N.F.L.’s most important and lucrative event, the Super Bowl.
To mitigate the response to his comments, Costas made an appearance on the CNN show “Smerconish” at the end of November.
He asserted that network officials were fully aware of his opinions on football and that “NBC Sports deserves credit” for assisting him in expressing his views.
Nonetheless, network officials were enraged, prompting his removal from the network’s Super Bowl plans and ultimate resignation from NBC. Costas discussed the episode with ESPN in 2018 for a report that aired on “Outside the Lines.”
Who did Bob Costas Marry? Wife Details
Bob Costas’ wife is Jill Sutton.
Jill and Costas met after he divorced his first wife in 2001.
The couple married in 2004 and have been together ever since.
Jill Sutton is a former FOX weekend broadcaster. On June 5, 1969, she was born in El Paso, Illinois, USA.
Jill is the daughter of Don Sutton and Janet D Sutton of Bloomington, Illinois. Don, her father, was most likely a real estate agent and manager.
She also had a stepmother, Susan or Sue Sutton, who passed away in June 2020. Some people think Sue is her biological mother, but she is actually Janet’s daughter.
Jill’s husband, on the other hand, is an American sportscaster known for his long tenure with NBC Sports, from 1980 to 2019.
He has 28 Emmy awards for his work and has hosted 12 Olympic Games in prime time from 1988 to 2016.
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