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During his routine pre-game conversation with the media Sunday, Cuban (when asked aboutthe NFL's television expansion) predicted the nation's most popular league will eventually burn itself out.
"I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion," Cuban said according to ESPNDallas.com. "I'm just telling you, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And they're getting hoggy. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way.
"I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule number one of business."
And Cuban, a highly successful businessman and investor, knows a thing or two about business.
The NFL in February announced a new TV deal that, with additional coverage on CBS, will expand the league's capacity for Thursday Night Football and even add a couple Saturday games late in the season.
Cuban joins the NFL's coaches and players who, generally speaking, hate the idea of mid-week regular-season games. The largest and most obvious concern from teams is the fact that players can't adequately recover from the previous week. And coaches don't have enough time to study opponents' film and prepare a solid game plan.
Players and coaches understandably don't like the idea. But commissioner Roger Goodell and the league seem to love it for obvious reasons: more nationally televised games equate to more mulah — for everybody.
NFL fans, for the most part, love the idea, too. More football is a beautiful thing, right? Wrong, Cuban says.
"They're trying to take over every night of TV," Cuban said. "Initially, it'll be, 'Yeah, they're the biggest-rating thing that there is.' OK, Thursday, that's great, regardless of whether it impacts [the NBA] during that period when we cross over. Then if it gets Saturday, now you're impacting colleges. Now it's on four days a week. ...
"It's all football. At some point, the people get sick of it."
Is Cuban concerned about the NFL television ratings' affect on the NBA's? Maybe. But his opinion on the NFL's seemingly uncontrollable popularity is interesting. Cuban's comments — combined with the public's exponentially growing safety concerns about the sport of football — present legitimate questions regarding the league's future.
Think of it this way: People love to eat food, so a smart individual invented the buffet.
But one can only eat so much. Steak is delicious, but if you eat it every day it eventually becomes intolerable.
"I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion," Cuban said according to ESPNDallas.com. "I'm just telling you, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And they're getting hoggy. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way.
"I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule number one of business."
And Cuban, a highly successful businessman and investor, knows a thing or two about business.
The NFL in February announced a new TV deal that, with additional coverage on CBS, will expand the league's capacity for Thursday Night Football and even add a couple Saturday games late in the season.
Cuban joins the NFL's coaches and players who, generally speaking, hate the idea of mid-week regular-season games. The largest and most obvious concern from teams is the fact that players can't adequately recover from the previous week. And coaches don't have enough time to study opponents' film and prepare a solid game plan.
Players and coaches understandably don't like the idea. But commissioner Roger Goodell and the league seem to love it for obvious reasons: more nationally televised games equate to more mulah — for everybody.
NFL fans, for the most part, love the idea, too. More football is a beautiful thing, right? Wrong, Cuban says.
"They're trying to take over every night of TV," Cuban said. "Initially, it'll be, 'Yeah, they're the biggest-rating thing that there is.' OK, Thursday, that's great, regardless of whether it impacts [the NBA] during that period when we cross over. Then if it gets Saturday, now you're impacting colleges. Now it's on four days a week. ...
"It's all football. At some point, the people get sick of it."
Is Cuban concerned about the NFL television ratings' affect on the NBA's? Maybe. But his opinion on the NFL's seemingly uncontrollable popularity is interesting. Cuban's comments — combined with the public's exponentially growing safety concerns about the sport of football — present legitimate questions regarding the league's future.
Think of it this way: People love to eat food, so a smart individual invented the buffet.
But one can only eat so much. Steak is delicious, but if you eat it every day it eventually becomes intolerable.
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