Posted on 02/16/2022 3:41:23 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey
The Super Bowl rebounded to draw an estimated 101.1 million television viewers. That was a 6% increase over the 95.2 million TV viewers who saw the Tampa Bay Bucs crowned as champions. The halftime show starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary K. Blige was a hit.
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101 million. That would be all of the 81 million Biden voters, plus 20 million more who wish they had voted for Biden. Sounds about right.
112 million per Drudge. Either way good numbers. Probably due to a good product during the playoffs, and a decent Super Bowl.
Lions 2022!😉
Your post was incorrect. You claimed 2020 had 113 million viewers when in fact it had 95 million. Regardless, this year’s Super Bowl was, I believe, the most watched television program in the last five years. The NFL is stronger than ever.
The reach of the networks still increases every year and they get excited about 6% growth, despite a 25% downturn all at the knee of a SF QB who could not deal with a 5 man rush. The advertisers who entered this year will not be around next year.
I do not think the event matters all that much anymore, people mostly watched the Superbowl because the rest of the events of the weekend were cleared out. Winter Olympics excluding ICE hockey are dead sports other than once every 4 years. There just isnt a online market worth serving for Ice Dance.
Until the Daytona 500 ratings hit the Superbowl ratings growth cannot be measured in a ad revenue seance. It is twenty times cheaper to advertise during the Datonya 500 to one tenth the audience. That audience is concentrated more around consumers who buy physical products.
I have always wondered if given the same amount of press and lead in where the US Grand Prix, Daytona 500 or Indy 500 would land.
It is not a game normal people can participate in. With 260 lb high school line men and QB coaching from the age of 5 what exactly are we watching as a game. A bunch of 20 year old gym rats who will never have a normal job. Out of the game where everyone has a publicists do we see more Walter Payton or Broadway Joe emerge for the next era?
I have zero interest in what any NFL player has to say.
IMO, Tom Brady is dumber and more awkward than a box of rocks, he can throw a ball into a bucket from 60 yards away and has been trained since the age of 12 read defenses. The QBs just 10 years older can almost carry a conversation about non football in a commercial, but it more a process of transference of good will towards a former player to a car insurance brand.
In related news, the weekly chocolate ration has been increased from 20 to 15 grams.
I care about NFL player's politics about as much as they care about mine. Nothing they do affects me personally. Why should I care about their opinions?
I'm sorry about the Lions. They are difficult to watch (as are my Giants over the last 6 years). I hope you took some solace watching Stafford win. He was a bright spot for your city.
Aside from giving some here an opportunity to pontificate and/or virtue signal, this thread has no redeeming value save for the chance to allow me to shout at the clouds.
So much for the boycott.
To those of you who watched the Super Bowl, the NFL, the left, and the woke would like to thank you for your support.
Interesting that they seem to have stopped kneeling during the national anthem. That practice seems to have been dropped quietly. Did they stop when a Democrat became president?
They have moved on to complaining about the lack of black head coaches.
Ratings may be up this year but by every measure they haven't returned to their peak in 2017.
What probably alarms the NFL more than anything else is that their ratings in the 18-49 age group are down 25% from their peak in 2012. In other words ... retirees make up a disproportionate number of Super Bowl viewers, and younger people aren't nearly as interested in the NFL as they were in the past.
Well, you know the saying - "Woketards and their money are soon parted."
I suspect there is a huge number of Americans who have assumed — perhaps rightly so — that NFL games are as rigged as a casino slot machine.
Didn't watch last year; didn't watch this year.
Prior to Kaepernick, I watched every one.
ML/NJ
of course who knows whether is is the truth.
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Anyone that watches sports that support communism and these jokers is a fool.
NFL is still king, but it still wasn’t great for them. The household share was 36.9 which is lowest since the 60’s. Also there is a caveat with number of viewers, they changed how they count. They now include out of home viewers and streaming. Even with that caveat, they didn’t get near Superbowl peak viewers which was a little over 115 million last decade. They are still king, but there are some slight cracks in the armor.
I would not say its over based on a Super Bowl. I being a bengals fan was interested in seeing if they would manage to actually win a super bowl. Until then I had not sat down to watch a game in several years. And I will easily go back to not patronizing the NFL.
Just proves you can chit on America, disrespect its traditions and the addiction goes on. Even here on freerepublic you have the holdouts that just can’t resist watching Kapernik kneeling. We haven’t watched any sports in a couple of years and it’s been very good for the soul and the family.
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