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There is no "public mandate" for an 18-game schedule or more Thursday night games. This is all about lining YOUR pockets, so just freaking be honest about it.

You don't think increasing ratings is an indicator that the public wants more games? Thursday Night Football ratings increased 10% from '12-'13. So it's not as unpopular as some people want it to be.

The fallacy in Cuban's argument is the schedule has been more or less the same over the last several years. Sure they've added more Thursday games, but they've been playing Saturdays during the dead period in NCAA football for years.
The only thing that's changing next season is that CBS is going to simulcast half of the Thursday night games.

Sounds to me like he has sour grapes because the NFL is killing the NBA in ratings.

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Posted by lsutigers1992

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Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:28 pm to Wayne Campbell

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You don't think increasing ratings is an indicator that the public wants more games? Thursday Night Football ratings increased 10% from '12-'13. So it's not as unpopular as some people want it to be.

If 10 people watched in 12 and 1 extra person watched in 13, that's a 10 percent increase. The increase could be just do to NFL Network being on more cable/satellite/Internet systems.

What are the Thursday ratings compared to Sunday night and Monday nights? That might be more telling. I don't know those numbers.

I'm an NFL junkie and I'd rather watch The Big Bang Theory over a Bills/Browns game at this point. It's Thursday night. I have other things to do. I'm not that addicted to NFL Football. And I don't even particularly like The Big Bang Theory.

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