Question regarding all time NFL team ratings...

[Rack]

Does anyone know of a website that shows the highest nationally rated games in history?

 

[AdamJT13]

You're talking TV ratings, right?

Super Bowls or regular season?

 

[BigDFan5]

You're talking TV ratings, right?

Super Bowls or regular season?

I would like to see both, but regular season would be best

 

[Rack]

You're talking TV ratings, right?

Super Bowls or regular season?

Sorry it took so long to reply. I'm talking regular season.


I'm having a discussion with some Pats fan on another board (good guy, but a bit arrogant). I'm pretty sure the Cowboys have a few of the top 10 rated nationally televised games of all time but I want to make sure before I drop the hammer on him.

 

[lane]

i'm going to go out on a limb and say this sunday at 3:15 p.m. central will be the most watched regular season matchup ever.

 

[AdamJT13]

I'll see what I can find. But most of the top-rated network shows happened before cable (and the Internet, etc.) took a big chunk of the audience.

 

[Rack]

I'll see what I can find. But most of the top-rated network shows happened before cable (and the Internet, etc.) took a big chunk of the audience.

Thanks, Adam.

That guy claim that the highest rated regular season football game ever was last season's Pats/Colts game. I don't think that's true, but I couldn't find any info anywhere to dispute it.

 

[Hypnotoad]

I heard the preliminary ESPN numbers for this Monday game where 9 million and that was the same time as the baseball game. They broke ESPNs previous record. I'm not sure what history is, I'm willing to bet its Superbowl XXX

 

[Big Dakota]

CBS Sports' AFC Championship Game is highest rated TV program in '06-'07 season






[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ON CBS IS HIGHEST RATED TELEVISION PROGRAM OF 2006-2007 SEASON [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]New England-Indianapolis Championship Game is Highest-Rated Since 1997 [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]CBS Sports’ coverage of the AFC Championship Game featuring the New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, Jan. 21 (6:45-10:30 PM, ET), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 28.1/40, up +14% from a 24.6/44, in 2006 for (Pittsburgh-Denver; 3:15-6:15 PM, ET), and up +4% from 2005’s 27.0/38 (New England-Pittsburgh; 6:30-9:45 PM, ET). [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The AFC Championship game scored the highest rating for a television program to date for the 2006-07 season, beating the two primetime debut telecasts of American Idol on FOX by +29% – 21.8/31 on Tuesday, 1/16/07 and 21.7/31 on 1/17/07. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The 2007 AFC Championship on CBS was the highest-rated program in the metered markets since Super Bowl programming on ABC on 2/5/06- 42.1/62 for the game between Pittsburgh and Seattle, the Super Bowl post-game (10-10:30pm- 36.0/52) and the Super Bowl kick-off show- 32.0/53 from 6-6:30pm. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Yesterday’s AFC Championship game on CBS beat last year’s Academy Awards on Sunday, 3/5/06 (the highest-rated entertainment program of the last year) by +2% (28.1/40 vs. 27.6/40). [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]“Going into Super Bowl XLI, we could not be happier to see a record-breaking audience for the AFC Championship combined with the strong audience for the NFC Championship and for NFL football across the regular season,” said Sean McManus, President CBS News & Sports. “It confirms the remarkable power of the NFL as a television property and the AFC as a Conference.” [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The 28.1/40 represents the highest-rated AFC Championship Game in the metered markets since CBS re-acquired the NFL in 1998 and overall, the highest-rated AFC Championship game since Jacksonville-Indianapolis in 1997 (28.3/46). This was the third time in four years that the AFC game out-rated the NFC Championship game. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The AFC Championship Game rating peaked at a 33.2/46 from 10:00-10:30 PM. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]THE NFL ON CBS’s AFC playoff average for the 2006-07 season earned a 21.5/36 overnight rating/share, up +3% from a 20.9/37 in 2005-06. This was the third-straight year that the AFC playoffs have beaten the NFC playoff average. [/FONT]


This is probably what the guy is hanging his hat on.

 

[Rack]

:bump:

 

[Mavs Man]

Are you looking for the percentage of viewers or total number of viewers?

For percentages, it'll be hard to match games from the 70s and 80s, but total numbers should be higher now than 20-30 years ago.

 

[Mavs Man]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d800226d0&template=with-video&confirm=true

Dated Aug. 8, 2007:

All-Time Highest Rated TV Programs
Number of Viewers (watched throughout the game):
#1 - 1983 M*A*S*H series finale - 105.97 million
#2 - 1996 Super Bowl XXX (Dallas/Pitt) - 94.1 million
#3 - 2007 Super Bowl XLI (Colts/Bears) - 93.2 million

Note: I know you're looking for regular season numbers, but it's interesting to see that the Dallas/Pittsburgh SB is still #1, and that was over 10 years ago.

 

[lurkercowboy]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d800226d0&template=with-video&confirm=true

Dated Aug. 8, 2007:

All-Time Highest Rated TV Programs
Number of Viewers (watched throughout the game):
#1 - 1983 M*A*S*H series finale - 105.97 million
#2 - 1996 Super Bowl XXX (Dallas/Pitt) - 94.1 million
#3 - 2007 Super Bowl XLI (Colts/Bears) - 93.2 million

Note: I know you're looking for regular season numbers, but it's interesting to see that the Dallas/Pittsburgh SB is still #1, and that was over 10 years ago.

The next time Dallas makes the Super Bowl, it will take over the #1 spot.

 

[AdamJT13]

Thanks, Adam.

That guy claim that the highest rated regular season football game ever was last season's Pats/Colts game. I don't think that's true, but I couldn't find any info anywhere to dispute it.

Following are the 10 most-watched regular-season games in 2006:

Date Program (Game) Viewers
Dec. 3 FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Giants) 27.6 million
Nov. 26 FOX Sunday National (mostly Bears-Patriots) 24.2 million
Nov. 23 FOX Thanksgiving Day (Bucs-Cowboys) 23.8 million
Nov. 19 CBS Sunday National (mostly Colts-Cowboys) 23.4 million
Dec. 25 NBC Christmas Day (Eagles-Cowboys) 23.2 million
Sept. 10 FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Jaguars) 22.7 million
Sept. 10 NBC Sunday Night (Colts-Giants) 22.6 million
Oct. 8 FOX Sunday National (Cowboys-Eagles) 22.1 million
Oct. 29 CBS Sunday National (mostly Colts-Broncos) 21.97 million
Nov. 5 NBC Sunday Night (Colts-Patriots) 21.95 million

Source: NFL, Nielsen Media Research, 9/7/06-12/31/06



Here's another source --

http://sportsbiznews.blogspot.com/2006_12_03_archive.html

The FOX Sunday national game this past Sunday December 3 (mostly Cowboys-Giants) was viewed by 27.6 million people, ranking as the most-watched NFL regular-season game since the 1999 Dolphins-Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game on CBS.

 

[Mavs Man]

The next time Dallas makes the Super Bowl, it will take over the #1 spot.

That goes without saying.

The Patriots are the new 'America's Team'? Right...

 

[Freyguy]

1985
San Francisco defeated Miami 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California, January 20. The game was viewed on television by more people than any other live event in history. President Ronald Reagan, who took his second oath of office before tossing the coin for the game, was one of 115,936,000 viewers. The game drew a 46.4 rating and a 63.0 share. In addition, 6 million people watched the Super Bowl in the United Kingdom and a similar number in Italy. Super Bowl XIX had a direct economic impact of $113.5 million on the San Francisco Bay area.

http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1981-1990

 

[Mavs Man]

1985
San Francisco defeated Miami 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California, January 20. The game was viewed on television by more people than any other live event in history. President Ronald Reagan, who took his second oath of office before tossing the coin for the game, was one of 115,936,000 viewers. The game drew a 46.4 rating and a 63.0 share. In addition, 6 million people watched the Super Bowl in the United Kingdom and a similar number in Italy. Super Bowl XIX had a direct economic impact of $113.5 million on the San Francisco Bay area.

http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1981-1990

I'm almost positive that is the number of unique viewers, not the number of viewers who watched it from beginning to end.

 

[Rack]

Following are the 10 most-watched regular-season games in 2006:

Date Program (Game) Viewers
Dec. 3 FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Giants) 27.6 million
Nov. 26 FOX Sunday National (mostly Bears-Patriots) 24.2 million
Nov. 23 FOX Thanksgiving Day (Bucs-Cowboys) 23.8 million
Nov. 19 CBS Sunday National (mostly Colts-Cowboys) 23.4 million
Dec. 25 NBC Christmas Day (Eagles-Cowboys) 23.2 million
Sept. 10 FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Jaguars) 22.7 million
Sept. 10 NBC Sunday Night (Colts-Giants) 22.6 million
Oct. 8 FOX Sunday National (Cowboys-Eagles) 22.1 million
Oct. 29 CBS Sunday National (mostly Colts-Broncos) 21.97 million
Nov. 5 NBC Sunday Night (Colts-Patriots) 21.95 million

Source: NFL, Nielsen Media Research, 9/7/06-12/31/06



Here's another source --

http://sportsbiznews.blogspot.com/2006_12_03_archive.html

The FOX Sunday national game this past Sunday December 3 (mostly Cowboys-Giants) was viewed by 27.6 million people, ranking as the most-watched NFL regular-season game since the 1999 Dolphins-Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game on CBS.

Thanks, Adam.

 

[BigDFan5]

Thanks, Adam.

Hey rack which forum are you about to lay the smack down on? I wanna watch

 

[Rack]

Hey rack which forum are you about to lay the smack down on? I wanna watch

madden planet.