

That same “political crap” has been going on for years, so it’s not that. so sit back, pop open your Bud Lite, and watch the sinking ship known as the NFL. They are probably the same guys who complain on here about the NFL being too political. It’s a random 50-50 bet, a true sucker bet, yet millions do it. Just look at the Super Bowl–there were millions of dollars bet on the coin toss. But that will be screwed up too with the bookmakers pushing prop bets. The only recent thing that has perked up interest in sports is online betting.
#LAST YEAR SUPER BOWL SCORE FOR FREE#
People are sick of paying for media they used to get for free and don’t watch–the 230 million who didn’t watch the Super Bowl. A large part of the fees they pay to cable, steaming and satellite go fo sports. Do you think those networks are going to continue to fork over billion of dollar to a diminished NFL? Look at the layoffs at ESPN and other networks. The media market is too fractured, there are too many options.
#LAST YEAR SUPER BOWL SCORE TV#
The NFL rode the wave of cable TV and cashed in. They are comfortable not thinking about people who are not like them. They are about equality, fairness and kindness, something a large number of commenters here don’t seem to care about. The ads and NFL messages these commenters write about are not political. The wealthy white ownership owner refuse to hire black coaches or GMs. The NFL is owned and run by privileged white men. To where, given the broader connection between football and our broader society, they should be. The league needs more of that kind of creativity in order to get the numbers to where they could be. The Nickelodeon broadcast of the Bears-Saints playoff game surely represents a step in that direction, with the league focusing on spreading the football virus to a younger crowd. Maybe, just maybe, the game would benefit more from efforts to come far closer to saturation of the domestic market. What else were people doing? For the pinnacle of such a quintessentially American sport, the notion that more than 230 million Americans were doing something on an early-February Sunday other than watching the game should be regarded as alarming by the powers-that-be.Īt a time when the NFL seems to be obsessed with the development of audiences in other countries, there’s plenty of meat still on the U.S. The ongoing pandemic nevertheless makes the TV performance of the game more vexing.

Although ardent football fans continued to watch the Super Bowl because: (1) it’s the Super Bowl and (2) Patrick Mahomes has a history of erasing big deficits quickly, the casual fan was likely to move on to something else - especially after the first half. The depressed number comes from one basic reality: The game stunk.

Last year, that number reached 113 million. Via Eric Fisher of SportsBusiness Group, the total audience (including out-of-home viewership and all streaming platforms) averaged 96.4 million. The difference in interest in the two games showed in the viewership numbers.Īfter a delay in the release of Nielsen figures that caused many industry observers to fear that the Super Bowl LV viewership numbers would fall far short of Super Bowl LIV, they did. In 2021, the Chiefs didn’t even score 10 total points in the Super Bowl. In 2020, the Chiefs erased a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to win the Super Bowl.
