Weekly Issue

Nearly 10 years ago, before an otherwise forgettable game against the Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban used part of his pregame interview to utter perhaps the most spectacularly wrong prediction in recent sports business history: The NFL would implode in a decade at the hands of its own hubris. “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered,” he said. Since then, the NFL’s appetite has grown only more ravenous, and it continues to slaughter everything in its path.