Costas: "Mistake" To Give Anti-Gun Commentary During Football Game

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31. I'm surprised that's there's more uproar over his commentary than there being a game to give it at

Well, almost surprised.

I'm from Kansas City; I lived a few blocks from where the Harris House was being shot up by Chiefs' players during Schottinheimer's tenure. I'm used to the braying of, "oh it's the guns making these men do these terrible things!"

Yet there was no coverage - zero - of the police calls to Joe Montana's house when he was hitting his wife ... yet everyone knew about it. Cops do talk, and not all of them were happy with treating the worn-out, aging star with kid gloves.

No one wants to talk about how this sport has turned so violent, is promoted on its violence, about how team rivalries are whipped up into life-or-death contests for the fans (who pay hundreds of dollars to make the team owners richer) and how this celebration of violence with its rewards of money and fame might begin to color the players' view of life.

Ray Lewis stabbed two people after being previously charged with punching a woman in the face. Rae Carruth had his pregnant girlfriend murdered. But as long as the money keeps coming in, don't expect the NFL or anyone else to take a look at the roots of these problems.