Bravo !
Posted on 02/04/2019 7:45:09 AM PST by EdnaMode
The 13-3 win for the New England Patriots over the Los Angeles Rams last night wasn’t the most exciting Super Bowl ever played by any measure, but the 2019 big NFL game was sure one for the history books.
First of all, in the Patriots’ third consecutive visit to Super Bowl, the match-up in Atlanta on Sunday was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever, a dubious honor at best. The record was previously held by Super Bowl VII, which saw the Miami Dolphins best the Washington Redskins 14-7 on January 14, 1973.
Secondly, Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady is now the first NFL player to win six Super Bowl rings with this latest triumph for the Massachusetts team. With this sixth Super Bowl win for the Patriots, the 41-year old Brady also has been in nine Super Bowls over his career, more than any other NFL player ever – which is not a record to scoff at in any way.
However, when it comes to ratings, Super Bowl LIII is not one anyone’s going to want to brag about.
Shown on CBS for the first time since 2016 and with ad spots going for around $5 million each, the Rams’ loss scored a 44.9/68 in metered market results.
To put that in the starkest light of day, that’s a dip of just over 5.2% from the big NFL battle of February 4, 2018 on NBC in the first round of ratings. On a larger playing field, that metered market result for yesterday’s game is the worst the Super Bowl has done in the early numbers since the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals on February 1, 2009.
A very tight and seamlessly flowing offering from the network, yesterday’s Super Bowl is also down a bit over 8% from the metered markets of the last time CBS had the game three years ago.
Super Bowl 50 saw the Denver Broncos top the Carolina Panthers 24-10 on February 7, 2016 in a gridiron clash that eventually resulted in 111.9 million viewers and the honor at the time of being the third most watched show in U.S. TV history.
The lowest rated Super Bowl in eight years in the early metrics, last year’s Philadelphia Eagles’ victory 41-33 over the Patriots ended up with 103.4 million viewers, a nine-year low – so far.
Last night’s post-game premiere of James Corden-fronted reality series The World’s Best pulled in a 14.0 in the metered markets according to Nielsen numbers this morning. While unscripted apples to dramatic oranges, that’s a drop of almost 14% from the special Super Bowl episode of NBC’s This Is Us that aired after last year’s Eagles’ win.
No surprise for such a low scoring game that didn’t see a single touch down for ages, Super Bowl LIII peaked near the end with a 47.3 in metered markets in the 9:30-10 PM ET slot.
As we now turn our gaze to Super Bowl LIV set for next year in Miami, we’ll update with more Super Bowl LIII numbers, including that tepid Maroon 5 halftime show and The World’s Best debut later, as more data comes in.
As we have done in the past, let’s put the latest Super Bowl in greater perspective by checking out the Top 5 Super Bowl metered market ratings ever – a list that this year’s game is certainly not a part of:
1) 2015: 49.7 – Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks (NBC) 2) 2016: 49.0 – Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers (CBS) 3) 2017: 48.8 – Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons (Fox) 4) 2013: 48.1 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (CBS) 5) 2011: 47.9 – Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Fox)
Maybe kneeling has consequences.
I watched Puppy Bowl which was a better game.
I guess if you like “punting” which is basically a sign of failure.
Certainly the most inspiring and the most meaningful aspect.
I watched it on and off in between other activities. Boring game, and the half time show was the worst that I can remember. The NFL killed the goose that was laying their golden eggs.
Tom Brady might do well to take this as an opportunity to retire from playing and enjoy his supermodel wife and kids, rather than risk injury.
Soup restaurant or soup kitchen?
Super = an adjective bantered about haphazardly.
CONSUMERS are seldom fooled by a label which states:
“NEW SUPER SIZE” printed on those soap boxes. Something, always seems to be missing: taste, quality, whatever.
Football. - We’ve kicked the habit.
It was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever, and the Patriots scored the fewest points of any winning team in a Super Bowl. It nearly became the first Super Bowl in which neither team scored a touchdown.
Yea, I’m sure that was it.
Ha! Not that I care, but I just now found out who won by reading this headline.
The NFL has been buying quasi-peace on this issue by writing big checks to “Social Justice” organizations.
Building up such organizations is likely to inflict
REAL damage on this country. We might have been better
off with the kneeling.
And the Kaepernick thing, in addition to having suppressed audiences, also meant they couldn’t get any decent performers to do the halftime show, so that sucked as well, and so you didn’t even get anybody watching “just to see the halftime show”, except for that one person who is the Maroon 5 fan.
Meanwhile, even THAT is blowing up in their faces, as everybody seems to have wanted a special song from some Spongbob Squarepants show, and it was “promised”, and then not delivered.
Not too mention that many thought the wrong two teams were there because of really bad refereeing boners during the two championship games.
His fan really liked it though.
Oh bologny. Adam Levine’s music I don’t care for (except the fleeting interest in Moves Like Jagger) but he resisted calls to boycott the show and ALSO resisted efforts by “activists” to turn it into a protest show. And if you think Adam Levine is “old” you must be 12. He looks really good. His physique is worthy of showing off. It’s not like he has a dad bod. He’s ripped and in shape.
One thing’s for sure though. He does *not* have the moves like Jagger. Jagger at 75 can outdance him still today.
Bravo !
Yes, I read that “Kneeling festival” comment too and decided not to watch.
Did they kneel?
No, believe it or not. Maroon 5 avoided politics altogether, and I was very surprised. He had indicated that they would!
I will say this..Maroon 5 was rather “meh”, but I was impressed that he did resist all of the pressure from the left. He’s a leftie for sure, but he probably figured that he didn’t want to piss off half of those who actually buy their music.
I admire that he kept the politics out of it but I still think he looked stupid dancing around taking off his clothes. He’s in his mid thirties I believe. Yes he has a nice body Just my humble opinion.
You are right on the money. And with a 10 point win, the Pats covered the spread(-2.5) easily. The over(56.5) not so much.
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