for his quote leadership keeping the concussion and cte conversation in the national spotlight. he s been warning about this issue since at least 2007. as this montage, which was shown at the gala, evidences. more urgent football issue. concussions. it s the hundreds, if not thousands of subconcussive hits, those are the ones that actually cumulatively take a greater toll than the concussions. that may become like the roman circus. where people watch it but they don t let their kids play it. bob, the point from the montage is you ve been speaking about this issue for a long, long time. had you a viral moment this week. provide the context. well it was a symposium at the university of maryland involving other sports journalists, christine brennan, michael wilbond and tony
other 89 quarterbacks in the national football league? absolutely. he deserves a job but not a starting quarterback. i think this is to a certain degree a large degree a football issue. so if it s a football issue they don t want him. if he will be a backup you ll take on everything that goes with this. the fan base in a lot of instances will be very unhappy. eric: you would think the owners would potentially take into account some public reaction to this. look what they put on the field. felons and all sorts of other things. domestic violence, steroids. we have a lot of guys who have done a lot, dui in the national football league. the owners believe those guys can win and they help the team and they want to give them second chances. i believe the colin kaepernick should have a job but i also believe that the nfl owners are not colluding and the coaches are not saying you know what, let s keep him off the field because of the distraction it might cause with our fan base. i don t t
generations. kimberly: going back to the beginning. you are at 9:00 so many years ago. to me, it feels good like going home again and i m excited to watch tonight because you have a huge interview with the man who doesn t give interviews, steve bannon. i have interviews this week with four people who rarely give interviews. four. jesse: can you give us a hint? no. tonight is going to be good. we are talking about the same football issue you are talking about. the nfl is going to have a make a decision. if they are not going to let the dallas cowboys put on their helmet in respect of the five slain officers last year and they are not going to let what was the name of the linebacker? avery williamson wanted to put never forget on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. then they allow the players to take a knee. either they allow it or they don t. one of the things i love about sports as we get out of the political world. it unites everybody, and we like to see the most talented. why a
best line ever, right? best way to go. what do you think football is going to look like in ten years? i think there will be changes. the guys were talking about the rules changes in football. i think we will see more and we will see more parents pulling their kids out of the game. we ll see if that has reverb rations to the nfl. and the friday night lights if that shifts as well. merrill what will football be like in ten years? i think it will grow. this is not just a football issue. ncaa brought out a diagram of all of the concussions that happen in all of the sports, every sport was represented. it could happen anywhere. the most dangerous area a kid could have is ride a bike or wheeled sports without a helmet. so concussions can happen in any environment. we are much better to empower parents and people what do you do if someone has a concussion, remove them, get them evaluated
one for domestic violence. one for cheating in terms of footballs. well that i think the initial ray rice penalty, roger gerell has said he got it wrong. they ended up extending that penalty to indefendant. a full season before he was reinstated earlier this year. i don t think that to really correlate. on one hand you re talking about off the field unrelated to the game conduct. we ve seen greg hardy, another player who was recently suspended for ten games because of a domestic violence incident. i think that s the new standard for domestic violence. things happening off the field. much harsher penalties. i think this was more an issue of the integrity of the game. the fact that you have a team individuals working for a team trying skirt the rules of the game. this is more of a football issue to me as opposed to a life issue and bigger than what s going on