Is he talking about football or the NBA, because the NBA is 7+ months of games every single night, including holidays, with the only break being the all star game?
The NFL and he is right. When it was all Sunday games and one Monday night game it was a bigger event. Football Sunday was a big deal, folks talked about it, planned their entire Sunday around it and whole cities bonded. The single Monday night game was especially a big deal, the marque game on a teams schedule. Everyone got together Monday night and got to see elite teams meet and have a Monday night party. Now with the schedule the way it is, the ceremony and build up isn't like it was. Add Saturday night games and you have NFL football 4 times a week... Meh.
So what, the ratings are still off the chart. You can have an NBA game on vs NFL game and its no contest. I wish there was game on every night. Maybe Cuban can explain why his Mavs cant compete year in and year out like the Spurs, ya know something relative to his sport.
NFL is a much bigger event now. Just because Monday night isn't as big as it was doesn't mean it isn't bigger than ever as a whole. NBA would be better off with fewer games and perhaps a single elimination tourney like the NFL has.
That wouldn't necessarily help, while the owners stand to lose out 1 - 3 months of revenue, not happening.
Cuban's overall point was that the NFL is not invincible. And we're seeing that in play right now. It hasn't affected viewership at this point, but it's also not been 10 years of this. The NFL is confronting exactly what he said: 2. Player Behavior. The NBA learned this lesson. Fans don't like to see players acting the fool. While fans may forgive players over time, advertisers have long memories. It is hard to ask players to be warriors on the field and perfect citizens off. Across a population of more than 1500 players under the age of 30, you can bet that they will have continuing issues. With the unquenchable thirst the online and media world have for HEADLINE p*rn, and the ever growing availability of pictures of those mistakes appearing online, it is not inconceivable that over the next ten years something could impact the perception of the game enough to impact attendance and viewership. Combine that with the concussion issues - the image of the league there, the ex-player lawsuits, and the kids who may choose other sports - the NFL has some potential long-term risks to work out. It's not the invincible force that people treat it as, which was Cuban's overarching point.
I think the only thing that can hurt the NFL is concussion thing. If people start pulling their kids out of football that will hurt the sport. People don't care if guys rape girls or beat their girl as long they are winning super bowl rings. People tune in and if one advertiser doesn't want to advertise someone else will. These guys play an extremely violent game. You need the aggression to play why would you expect people to suddenly turn it off.
If that were true, the Vikings and the NFL wouldn't have done an about-face this week in the hours after their sponsors started becoming vocal. Sponsorship is about supply-and-demand. Fewer potential sponsors means lower sponsorship rates. So yeah, a new sponsor will replace any that they lose, but with less competitors for those spots, the rates would be lower.
He's back, and I agree. Football has become a bourgeois sport - season tickets to the opera cost less than a pair of decent seats to a single Texans game. Though this is decades in the making. Also, having games in foreign cities is a stupid idea. It is the NATIONAL football league - let the internationals not care about football, as they do already.
The only valid point is the first one. Kids don't play football as much and will watch it less when they grow up. Futbal will gain in popularity in the USA.
I don't know what that fat hog Cuban is talking about. At this point, I rather watch more NFL than the rigged superteams trash the NBA is headed towards. Honestly, I haven't watched a single NBA game outside of the Rockets this season, meanwhile I've enjoyed even the Thursday night games like 49ers-Rams and Chiefs-Raiders. So yeah Cuban... shut up and STAY IN YO LANE! The NBA has a bigger local TV ratings decline problem right now and the national schedule is saturated with Warriors and Cavs.
Yeah, I'm not buying that Cuban is lowering tickets to be as wholesome as he is. Mavs suck. The tickets weren't selling at the higher prices so he's lowering them. Fans are still enjoying football at home and people are buying tickets on the second-hand market at outrageous prices. Doesn't matter what face value is if the free market is going to price it higher. The problem with the ratings decline is the influx of ads and stoppages. Kids aren't playing as much because parents are much more aware of the dangers to all this head trauma.
