"NBC broadcaster Bob Costas sounded a call about the Ryan Braun episode that more observers will repeat if the Brewers' leftfielder fails to win his appeal for reportedly testing positive for a banned substance.

Costas was interviewed by Dan Patrick Tuesday morning in Indianapolis on Patrick's radio show. Both broadcasters are at Super Bowl XLVI as part of NBC's coverage of the event. Both are part of NBC's "Football Night in America" show on Sunday nights in the regular season.

Patrick asked Costas, who also works for the MLB Network, what was going to happen with Braun's case.

"No one has ever won an appeal," Costas said. "The thing is set up and it's made clear that even if you by your own testimony unknowingly ingest something that trips the test, you are responsible for ingesting it. So I don't see what his successful defense will be. So he sits out 50 games and it costs him more than $3 million."