>No, rating bounced back after the election. They’re back to inline with last year.
Nope. 3.4 rating decline for the NFC championship game this year. That’s millions of people not watching.
That’s standard variation. Especially for a matchup that wasn’t that exciting and a game that was over in the first quarter.
Actually forget variation, you’re wrong:
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tv-ratings-falcons-packers-patriots-steelers-1201966941/
NFC (27.4) was up from last year (26.8), AFC was down (27.6), but last year’s AFC game had insane ratings (31.8) thanks to the Manning thing, but still really good. Especially when you factor in that last year it was AFC first then NFC and this year’s AFC ratings (late game) were better than the NFC last year in that time slot.
So the ratings indeed are still fine once the election got out of the way.