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[Lotus]

Enjoy the NFL while you can since Mark Cuban says it will be dead in 10 years.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cuban-n...5631--nfl.html

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Enjoy the NFL while you can since Mark Cuban says it will be dead in 10 years.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cuban-n...5631--nfl.html

Cuban is spot on. Greed will catch up with the NFL sooner or later. We can already see the Thursday games are borderline dreadful. Then we have these games over in London which is a stupid idea. And eventually we're going to have 14 teams in the playoffs and 18 regular season games, plus some Sat games at the end of the year. It will be watered down by then. Who wants see 8-8 teams in the playoffs? I blame the owners cause they're greedy and money hungry. Goodell is perfect guy for them as he's their 30 mil a year puppet. Eventually the ratings will slip. They just can't leave the damn game alone.

[ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Cuban is spot on. Greed will catch up with the NFL sooner or later. We can already see the Thursday games are borderline dreadful. Then we have these games over in London which is a stupid idea. And eventually we're going to have 14 teams in the playoffs and 18 regular season games, plus some Sat games at the end of the year. It will be watered down by then. Who wants see 8-8 teams in the playoffs? I blame the owners cause they're greedy and money hungry. Goodell is perfect guy for them as he's their 30 mil a year puppet. Eventually the ratings will slip. They just can't leave the damn game alone.

Cuban is right, the NFL is going to violate the basic principle of "supply and demand" (it's amazing how many businesses/governments/jackasses ignore this law). You're a poon if you think the availability/quantity of your product leads to long term growth. Evolve, change, innovate, whatever the hell you want to call it, you have to do something to increase your market share to avoid a plateau or plummet. The NFL is trying to do this by raping the core of it's product. The NBA sucks and is definitely not the model but Cuban is on point. He definitely wants part of the NFL though..