Posted on 02/09/2021 7:00:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Super Bowl 2021 ratings are finally out — and they’re not great.
CBS announced on Tuesday morning that 96.4 million viewers watched the game across all their platforms, “including the CBS Television Network, CBS Sports and NFL digital properties, Buccaneers and Chiefs mobile properties, Verizon Media mobile properties and ESPN Deportes television and digital properties.”
While CBS didn’t announce the number off viewers who watched the game on CBS, Sports Business Journal reported the total number was 91.629 million.
Concerns in the sports media industry grew when the ratings for the game were not released on Monday, which is highly unusual.
“Super Bowl numbers are still being processed and verified,” Nielsen said in a statement on Monday night. “We anticipate that final viewing figures, which will include Out Of Home (OOH) viewing, will be available to the media (Tuesday).”
Last season’s Super Bowl, a Chiefs victory over the 49ers on Fox, averaged 102.1 million viewers across all platforms.
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Me Too? They were amateurs. BLM destroyed my interest in professional sports.
Being down 10% is significant, but will not destroy the NFL.
I wonder if they tallied the number of people viewing it while wearing a mask (or two).
It was a good game-worth watching. Commercials would suggest our population is 50% black.
I heard it was 58 billion!
“Being down 10% is significant, but will not destroy the NFL.”
All businesses work on the margin.
If this Superbowl was down 10% (which had a very good matchup), then we can assume regular season games were down 10% (and probably more).
It’s enough that the ever increasing team payroll will not only not increase next year, but probably shrink. Hitting players where it counts—in the pocketbook.
It’s enough that owners may have to dip into their pockets to pay ongoing expenses.
And those ongoing expenses now include protection money to BLM.
It’s enough that the ever increasing team payroll will not only not increase next year, but probably shrink. Hitting players where it counts—in the pocketbook.
On Super Bowl Sunday, long about six in the evening, I said to my wife, I think today was the Super Bowl. Sure enough! I was right. I was only peripherally aware that something was important about that day.
I think I could have watched it but I am quite stubborn, and I will not participate in professional sports fanhood. I don’t have cable, don’t read the news, absolutely will not listen to sports radio, and there are many other things much better to do with my limited time here on Earth.
For most, its simply a traditional holiday gathering with food and beverage. While families and friends gather around the event, I would venture to bet that the social justice bowl is simply background noise that plays in the other room, with more and more who have grown repulsed from their politicizing a once great American sport.
Remove the traditional holiday aspects, and whats left? Overpaid whiners and marxist commentators.
At the next press conference, Jen Psaki will invite the Buccaneers to the WH to meet Biden and view the Guy Lombardo trophy.
There is a cap set on each team’s player payroll each year based on revenue. The total amount of player’s pay can’t exceed the cap.
The cap has gone up every year, because NFL revenue has gone up every year.
Next year, I expect the cap to go down, because revenue decreased
"Dr" Jill Biden sounded like and looked like one of the Beverly Hillbilly Clampett's.....
she did most of the talking while Joe squinted at the camera, unable to follow the teleprompter.
The Biden's recorded message asked fans for a moment of silence for pandemic victims. Fans responded negatively.
A cacophony of boos and catcalls erupted during the moment of silence and also led to some wild responses on social media.
Boston Draws Massive Ratings For Super Bowl LV
By CBSBoston.com Staff
February 8, 2021
BOSTON (CBS) — Patriots fans had no problem watching Tom Brady win his seventh Super Bowl on Sunday night. Fans in Boston put up a massive ratings number for Super Bowl LV, reportedly beating the Tampa market.
Actual numbers for CBS’ broadcast of Super Bowl LV — which saw Brady’s Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs — will be released Monday afternoon. But John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal is reporting that Boston had a 57.6 rating.
That is better than the Tampa market, which drew a 52.3 rating on Sunday night.
That’s a lot of Bostonians tuning in to watch Brady win with his new team. That rating also beats the Boston ratings for all but one of the Patriots’ nine Super Bowl appearances with Brady at quarterback. The only Super Bowl to draw a higher rating was New England’s dramatic Super Bowl XLIX win over the Seattle Seahawks, which drew a 61 in the Boston market.
One likely reason for the massive number in Boston was the lack of Super Bowl parties this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most fans watched the Super Bowl at home and not out at a bar or at a large gathering like years past.
But if anything is clear, it’s that New England will always be rooting for — or at least watching — Tom Brady when the quarterback plays in the Super Bowl.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/02/08/super-bowl-lv-ratings-tom-brady-boston-area-tampa-bay-nfl/
There was a lack of super bowl parties or bars that had their doors open. Those that watched with others in the past chose not to watch while being locked up at home. That tells me this 10% dip is much more significant.
To make the numbers even worse: the old days of 20 or 30 people watching the game together are over.
White liberal ‘elites’ were ‘sheltering in place’... not having Superbowl parties... and places like California banned bar crowds..
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