Posted on 02/13/2023 12:55:57 PM PST by DallasBiff
Super Bowl ratings dating back to the very first game in 1967.
The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set more recently, 114.4 million for Patriots-Seahawks in 2015. The 2022 Rams-Bengals Super Bowl ranks as the lowest rated since Super Bowl 3 in 1969 with a 36.9 rating, marking the second-straight year the game has averaged less than a 40 rating
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I was ironing my wife’s undergarments.
I have little interest in sports now, but we usually watched the Super Bowl every year (I liked the commercials).
We quit watching when all the kneeling business started. That’s not what sports or sports entertainment should be about.
I was cleaning leaves from the window wells.
Live sporting events, are just about the only programming on TV, which people make a point to watch live anymore.
Many people use the DVR or streaming services, and watch programs at times other than the original broadcast time. The major exception to this are sports and live news broadcasts.
And the Super Bowl for decades, has been the biggest event on TV. It gets bigger ratings than Oscars, Grammys, Christmastime specials, or presidential State of the Union speeches. It’s a league all its own.
It was a good football game yesterday.
“I was ironing my wife’s undergarments.”
I was polishing my 4.5mm BBs before loading them.
All 1000 of them. Individually.
Rams-Bengals....was that this year’s teams? I have no idea...
All of your post is true, what’s interesting is the ratings of Super Bowl get dwarfed by the rating of the Soccer World Cup Final game and the uefa champions league final game many times over.
The all-time most watched super bowl in terms of audience was listed in the article at 114 million. The recent World Cup Final was seen by over 500 million people.
So what were the ratings for yesterday’s game?
Heard they played the black national anthem (whatever that is) so I watched MST3K instead.
Ratings down in almost a straight line since the kneeling started... Hmm.
Have no idea, the ratings haven't come out yet.
I could have gone to Super Bowl 1—tickets went for about $15 and it wasn’t sold out. Because it wasn’t sold out, it was blacked out in Los Angeles.
Some people made “Super Bowl antennas” from coat hangers so as to get the broadcast from San Diego. Instructions on how to make these were circulated in publications such as the KRLA Beat, a newsletter put out by KRLA, one of LA’s radio stations featuring a Top 40 format. But we listened to it on the car radio while on a shopping expedition.
Then as now, I was rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs only because Kansas City is closer to California than their opponents’ hometowns of Green Bay (1967) and Philadelphia.
So why did you post this today?
I am a Patriots fan, but since the kneeling started my viewership has dropped off. I probably watch half a game this year. All I do these days is check the scores on the internet, and that’s what I did for this years superbowl. The left has ruined everything, gotta have all that woke crap in every show on tv.
The SB wasn’t called Super Bowl until the third one. The first two were called the AFL–NFL World Championship Game.
I went to Super Bowl 18 in 1984. It was $60 and my Dad had a few choice words.
Just posting history, bitch
They call that defensive holding yesterday but missed the defensive holding on the Patriots Brandon Browner on Jerome Kearse for the Patriots interception of Russell Wilson in the 2015 super bowl.
34 second mark of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7rPIg7ZNQ8
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