Look at #4. I was off about 2,000.
Don't let some of these idiots bother you. They are cranky old men.
Oddly enough, I will be watching at the even slightly more insane time of 2:20 EASTERN TIME! Lets just say there has been a lot of nap planning involved. USA-Portugal was a breeze by comparison.
Actually, more than 1 million people watched. The article says 998,000
households. While single person households have increased over the years, they're still a lot of multi-person households.
Also, I doubt that illegal aliens are Nielsen households, so the actual viewership would have been a bit higher.
Finally, here on the East Coast, the game was on from 5 AM to 7 AM. Turning it on instead of watching the local news repeat the weather and traffic every ten minutes wasn't that difficult. I find soccer generally dull, but for one morning it was something more interesting to watch.