We are a single death on the field away from the game fundamentally changing. If they continue to push the health of the players with games every day, more games, and international games it is a matter of when, not if.
In other owner's meeting news, Baltimore proposed replacing the football with a passed out drunk fiance so we might get positive forward yardage on the ground this year.
The only angle from which Cuban might be considered to have a point is that the NFL has less room to expand the playoffs and regular season before the product starts to seem noticeably diluted than is the case with either the NBA or MLB. Four additional regular season games in the NBA would barely register on the radar while it would be a huge addition for the NFL.
England isn't going to start getting youth and college leagues until there's enough interest in the sport, which seems like is the point with bringing more games over there. They need some interesting and competitive games though, and that's definitely not going to happen by sending the Jags over every year.
The league is smart enough to realize they're close to reaching the saturation point here in the US and in having done so, has the hubris to believe they can and should do the same across the pond. They don't worry about pissing off fans to the point of hurting interest here at home because, let's face it, it's not going to. It just gives the sports talking heads something football related to talk about Tuesday thru Thursday.
Growing interest in sports from the top down is the hardest way to go about it. Some sports have grown that way out of sheer necessity (NASCAR) but typically it's from the bottom up. Kids playing a sport in their backyards and neighborhoods does more to grow a sport long term than anything else.
Don't they sell out? Seems reason enough for me. Better then the empty seats they see in a lot of venues.
