Posted on 10/31/2017 10:19:47 AM PDT by Kazan
Even though it was the day before Halloween, last night’s Monday Night Football was part trick and part treat for the Kansas City Chiefs as the teams snapped a two-game losing streak to pummel the Denver Broncos 29-19.
Marcus Peters stayed off the field for the national anthem last night in protest, but his efforts in the game helped seal the deal for the Chiefs’ win at home at Arrowhead Stadium. A win that now gives the once unbeaten Chiefs an enviable 6-2 record in Week 8 of the current NFL season.
Those are stats that ESPN and the league sure would like to see when it comes to the ratings this year. And they are really numbers that the Disney-owned outlet and the NFL would have liked to score last night instead of the stumble they saw.
With a 7.2 in metered market results, last night’s MNF was down 9% from last week’s Philadelphia Eagles’ 34-24 triumph over the Washington Redskins.
While not the season low of the October 16 battle between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, last night’s Chiefs vs. Broncos match-up is very close to the previous MNF season low of the October 9 Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears games.
A pairing that can’t be comfortable for a league that is struggling to get ratings traction halfway through the current season as internal disputes swirl, plus political controversy and the feeling that too many games are cannibalizing the audience.
Year-to-year, last night’s Week 8 game was dead even with the Week 8 game of the 2016/2017 season when the Vikings and Bears pulled in a 7.2 MM rating in their October 31, 2016 match-up.
That Halloween 2016 game went on to deliver a 3.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 10.4 million viewers. Last week’s Eagles vs. Redskins game snared a 3.9 rating in the key demo with 11.3 million viewers.
As L.A. braces for what could be the end of our World Series 2017 dreams tonight or a resurgence and those trick or treaters, this week sees a little less NFL on the Big 4 as Thursday Night Football is only on NFL Network on November 2. But fear not TNF returns next week as it shifts from CBS to NBC.
Here’s a stat to hold you over football fans, last night’s MNF peaked with an 8.5 MM rating in the 9:30-9:45 PM ET slot
And remember, don’t eat all your candy at once tonight.
Can’t blame it on the World Series, no game last night.
“Kansas City Chiefs as the teams snapped a two-game losing streak to pummel the Denver Broncos 29-19.”
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A two-game losing streak?
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I’m bad as I was in attendance last night at the game. Give me 30 lashes...
NFL slime alert
Since when is winning by a touchdown + a field goal a pummelling?
“I’m bad as I was in attendance last night at the game. Give me 30 lashes...”
Just curious, how full was the stadium?
In a 16 game season 2 loses in a row is 1/8 of the season, so yeah streak.
5 turnovers is a pummeling.
Since we entered the age of sensationalistic news reporting. Nobody can simply report what happens. They have to try to out-hype and out-metaphor each other.
Monday night football is still on?
I thought all the players who chose to “take a knee” had been suspended and there weren’t enough left to field even one team, let alone two.
Shows you how much I have been following professional football in recent weeks.
As a Broncos fan, that game was an embarrassing.
Actually it was probably at capacity. The chiefs have a great following. The Hunt’s are good owners and liked by the fans in KC.
I got to my seat after the SSB as I was inline after tailgating.
Yup.
I was going to watch and said ‘to hell with them’. I wish someone knew how to organize a ‘sit in’ for one weekend where no one went to the game and no one watched. It looks like Goodell is the emperor of the nfl, and the owners should just send their checks to him and shut up.
Reap what you have sown.
When it was a non-contest as it was last night.
On the other hand Arrowhead was packed.
Who will be the racist when the owners start telling players that they can no longer afford the huge contracts?
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