Twitter: Cowboys-Chiefs break TV Viewership Record

[Rajveer]

I bet 50 million of those viewers were rooting against the Boys.

 

[Whirlwin]

It was great, it was my Super Bowl,
How about them Cowboys?

 

[OGSixshooter]

WE ARE AMERICA'S TEAM and the numbers show. Tell me otherwise.

I'm gonna guess that the majority of Americans tuned in to watch us lose...unfortunately. The hate watch is real.

 

[Ironicalicon]

57.2 million is crazy

Lot of people needing distraction from their family.

 

[StarLord]

Jerry just won his most precious Superbowl.

 

[jterrell]

my goodness.

 

[dogberry]

The Cincinnati game had to compete with Mary Poppins.

I had to change rooms.

 

[plasticman]

That's the thing about the Cowboys. If you don't love them then you love to see them lose.

There is very little indifference when it comes to NFL fans and the Dallas Cowboys.

At the same time, you can't just attribute those numbers to the Cowboys. NFL fans also enjoy watching a dynasty crumble and the Chiefs did win three Super Bowls.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

That's the thing about the Cowboys. If you don't love them then you love to see them lose.

There is very little indifference when it comes to NFL fans and the Dallas Cowboys.

At the same time, you can't just attribute those numbers to the Cowboys. NFL fans also enjoy watching a dynasty crumble and the Chiefs did win three Super Bowls.

while true, it is always interesting, no matter how bad we might be, our ratings are still huge. As Collinsworth said once, if NBC could have us on every Sunday night, they would. A network exec years ago said something to the effect that "when in doubt, show the Cowboys"

 

[big dog cowboy]

A network exec years ago said something to the effect that "when in doubt, show the Cowboys

Madden said that.

 

[diamonddelts]

America's punching bag

 

[IceStar-D7]

And we won!!!! Win!!Win!!!Win!!! Dallas made Turkey Day-GRAND!!!!

 

[gtb1943]

JR is grinning in his grave, in 1980, 83m American viewers watched him get shot and had everyone asking all summer, “Who shot JR?” It was a global phenomenon. The tenderfoots around here don’t relate, but if you lived through it, you know what I’m saying.

RIP Larry Hagman. Fellow Texan. TV icon.

Last episode of MASH in 1983 had 106 million viewers with 77% percent of the viewing audiences watching. Today that would be around 170 million

 

[Established1971]

I wonder if ratings nowadays are done differently. When you have a smart tv you dont even have to be surveyed, they know what you are watching. I got asked to be a Neilsen house and they want to put a camera on your tv to see if it is just on or if a human is looking (creepy as heck) I said no. So they do have metrics on "watching" but I bet they have metrics on how many sets are tuned to a program watching or not (and that can be projected out from smart tv's to all tv's). On Thanksgiving you have to think a tv is on regardless of how much people are really watching.

 

[leeblair]

And that’s the ONLY reason the Cowboys beat the Eagles and the Chiefs beat the Colts in "miraculous" come from behind victories.
The NFL couldn't have their Thanksgiving games be dull.

 

[triplets_93]

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