By Lee Igel
Forbes.com | March 25, 2014
Mark Cuban isn’t bashful when it comes to letting people know what he thinks about how they conduct business. The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks is rarely short of words about the decisions made by NBA officials in the league office and on the court. The same goes for the entrepreneurs and fellow judges pitching each other on the ABC reality series “Shark Tank.” Now, he’s extending the courtesy to NFL executives and owners, who he believes have set the league on a course that puts it “10 years away from an implosion.”
During a recent session with reporters, Cuban said that the NFL expanding its television package is bad business. The way he sees it, going after beaucoup bucks by airing too many games on too many days will end up costing the league in the long run because fans will eventually start tuning out. Or, as he said it, “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.”
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