Mark Cuban: NFL getting ‘too hoggy’ with TV expansion; ‘Hogs get slaughtered’

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Take note, NFL. Mark Cuban is comparing you to pigs.

Yesterday, during a pregame chat with reporters, the Dallas Mavericks owner said there are risks for the NFL in trying to dominate every night of TV. He put it in livestock terms.

From Tim MacMahon of ESPNDallas.com.

“I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion,” Cuban said Sunday evening when his pregame conversation with reporters, which covered a broad range of topics, swayed toward football. “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.”

Later Cuban said:

“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.”

And finally:

He compared it to the decline in popularity of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” after the game show expanded to air five days a week.

“They put it on every night,” Cuban said. “Not 100 percent analogous, but they handled it the same. I’m just telling you, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

“Who want to be a Millionaire?” Seriously?

I think the NFL is on an entirely different level. Now if Cuban was talking about “Shark Tank,” that would be a different story.

Cuban is right when he says the NFL is the biggest pig in the world. Nobody, though, will be slaughtering it anytime soon.

 

One thought on “Mark Cuban: NFL getting ‘too hoggy’ with TV expansion; ‘Hogs get slaughtered’”

  1. I think Cuban has valid arguments, and while I don’t think there’ll be a quick “implosion”, I do wonder about the NFL’s longevity. They want to keep adding games, making the season longer, making the playoffs longer, at some point they’ll hit market saturation.

    In addition, the concussion issue will not go away. People may eventually get turned off from all of the injuries or not let their kids play. Other people have said it, but there’s no guarantee the NFL stays on top forever.

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