Gerard, 17 footer is short.
Rebound Marvin puts it up and good
do you believe it?
Open Chicago with the lead.
Thanks for staying up later.
We're back in New York and that'll do
it for all of us tonight from Rio.
Our closing segment is called.
Consider this.
I was Bob Costas as intern
when I was in college.
I've known him for 40 years.
Two things one he's one of the
nicest guys I've ever known and
two and you already know this.
He's arguably the best TV
sportscaster of all time.
Tonight we talk life,
sports and about his incredible career.
Bob is tonight's Cardinal
Buick Sunday conversation.
This is part one of our two part interview.
Well Bob, most people in their 60s when
they've been with the company for a
long time and step away from that company,
slow it down.
Instead, you're working for the MLB Network,
HBO and Turner Sports.
That's not exactly slowing down at all.
You
know the list makes it look like it's
much more work than it actually is.
CNN, HBO and Turner Sports where I just
parachuted in to help out because Ernie
Johnson had an overlap between the
start of the NBA season and the NLCS.
They're all under the banner of Time Warner,
and I've been at the Major League Baseball
network since its inception in 2009,
so it isn't the number of
different mailing addresses.
If there are mailing addresses these days,
it's how many things.
I'm doing, I'm only doing as much
as I want to do under exactly
the terms that I want to do it.
How about politics?
It's such a polarizing time we're
living in and you could easily stay away
from it like most sportscasters do.
And I'm not saying that you go on your show
and give a Rachel Maddow like monologue,
but you're not afraid to voice your opinions.
And yet you risk alienating
some of the fanbase.
Take me through that.
When? Things
that are viewed as political issues
have intersected with sports.
Then I've done that.
Some people view the question of the
Washington football team's name,
which I addressed maybe a decade
ago and took care to distinguish
between that and other team names.
Just get a dictionary you don't have
to be liberal or conservatives.
Nothing to do with political correctness,
which at times is ridiculous and out of hand.
But get a dictionary.
Every dictionary defines Redskins.
As derogatory slur etc. Etc.
Four or five different definitions
of it as being a negative term.
So I was called upon to say
that the issue had arisen.
Washington was playing Dallas a few
days later on Sunday Night Football.
And so I talked about it,
but only when only when sports
and those political issues have
intersected and many of the things
I've said could just as well be
interpreted as conservatives.
As conservative as liberal.
But in this atmosphere,
people don't really want to give a fair
characterization of what you have to say.
At least some people,
it's in their best interest to have
a hot button that that pushes the
resentments of their preferred audience,
and what you actually think and who
you actually are often doesn't matter,
and it just comes with the territory.
Really enjoyed your
interview with Jerry Jones.
Amazed at age 79, how sharp he is,
but I was a little disappointed in his
answer when he called Stan Kranke,
a man of principle.
He's not real popular here
in Saint Louis obviously.
You know that I'm wondering your
encounters with stand your impressions.
My encounters with Stan have been very
few and he's almost like a sphinx.
I mean, he's not exactly forthcoming,
even in a social situation,
I don't mean that as a criticism,
but my impression is very close
to the vest when Jerry Jones,
who I know is not universally popular,
very popular in some places,
not so much in others.
When Jerry Jones said what
he said about Stan Kranke,
it flashed through my mind to say
he'd probably get an argument on
that from folks in Saint Louis.
But that wouldn't have taken us anywhere
and we were short on time anyway.
After stand did say that he
would pay the legal bills,
he said that in Houston six years
ago and then he said he would not.
And then John Mirra said, well,
we wouldn't have voted for you
to leave if you didn't say that
kind of your whole overview.
I know this is not exactly what you're
involved with every day of the week,
but I'm sure you have opinions. Well,
I guess the the needle that Stan
is trying to thread is that I
promised to pay the legal bills,
but not any damages or any award or
any settlement that the NFL arrives at.
With Saint Louis interests John,
Mara and the other owners,
at least almost all of them
don't see it that way.
Whatever ensues from legal
action by Saint Louis interests,
they believe that Stan Kronke is
on the hook for that otherwise.
They would not have voted to allow
him to leave Saint Louis and just
about everybody believes outside of
Crocky himself and some supporters.
I guess within the league that they
ignored or circumvented their own
fairly clear relocation guidelines
in order to allow him to move to LA
because of how ugly it
got with the Jon Gruden.
Emails revealed how conscious is the
NFL of not letting this go to trial
and some other things popping out.
Yeah, and that was part of my
line of questioning to Jerry
Jones a week or so ago on HBO,
you get into discovery.
I mean, Jon Gruden was hardly the
focus of the investigation into
the Washington football team,
but he got swept up in it.
None of these owners,
even those who have led exemplary existences.
If none of us are perfect.
But even those who have
seemingly little to worry about,
nobody wants their every email
or their every detail of their
financial existence examined
and brought to public light and.
Neither do they want congressional oversight.
The House Reform Committee has been
looking into the Washington football
team situation sometimes when
Congress gets involved in sports,
there's some grandstanding involved,
but it also makes the powers
that be within sports squirm,
so this is where,
especially if the proposed settlement
is upwards of a billion dollars,
as some people think it might be.
This is where the NFL might say,
wait a minute, wait.
Uh, let's see what we can do here,
and that could include a new
team for Saint Louis.