concussions. the hundreds of subconcussive hits those take a greater toll than the concussions. it may become like the roman circus where people watch it, but they don t let their kids play it. costas can no longer embrace the game as he has in the past and so he feels he is not the right person to present to an international audience. football s declines in both television ratings and youth participation suggests that costas speaks for many. including me. that didn t mean i ll root for the eagles any less, just signifies that i ll do so with an awareness i did not have when as a boy i first walked into veteran stadium wearing my number 5 jersey with gabriel on the back. still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments like this one smerconish, as disrep putdable