Posted on 01/23/2018 5:00:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
More than 40 million people watched the NFL’s two preliminaries for the Super Bowl on Sunday, a drop of more than 8 percent compared to last year’s conference championship games.
The Nielsen company said an average of 43.2 million people watched the games. While that’s down from the 47.1 million who watched the conference championships last year, it was a more heartening report than the NFL had gotten only a week earlier. This year’s divisional championship round had seen a 16 percent dip in audience size. […]
After seeing viewership erosion all year, the NFL will be anxious to see if that extends to the secular holiday of Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 4. The Super Bowl is the most-watched television event each year. …
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I will not be watching the Superbowl either.
Of course, I am from New York, so not watching New England vs. Philadelphia in the Superbowl is going to be pretty easy.
As Henry Kissinger famously said of the Iran/Iraq war, “It’s a shame they can’t both lose...”
That would be bad for any regular season game.
For a divisional playoff game, these numbers should put the fear
of Jesus in the NFL owners.
The New England Patriots’ comeback victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC title game Sunday on CBS was the highest-rated program on TV since last year’s Super Bowl
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Any one who believes the fall is only 8% please raise your hand. Ha ha ha ha go away and dont come back BLM/NFL thugs.
I think the actual ratings were much lower, but the Corrupt MSM is trying to hide the fact by lying about it...as they continually do about almost everything else.
At this point I would rather watch a midget Ping-Pong match than the Super Bowl.
This will be the first Super Bowl I have missed. I have watched them all.
Congrats, Goodell—you have managed to really tick me off with your PC bull____.
Not watching. The principle is bigger, and more important, than any game.
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