Super Bowl Ratings Hit 10-Year Low

[Frazod]

Apparently we weren't the only ones who weren't watching.

Super Bowl Ratings Hit 10-Year Low In Historic NFL Game & Patriots’ Win

https://deadline.com/2019/02/super-b...bs-1202548893/

The 13-3 win for the New England Patriots over the Los Angeles Rams last night wasn’t the most exciting Super Bowl ever played by any measure, but the 2019 big NFL game was sure one for the history books.

First of all, in the Patriots’ third consecutive visit to Super Bowl, the match-up in Atlanta on Sunday was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever, a dubious honor at best. The record was previously held by Super Bowl VII, which saw the Miami Dolphins best the Washington Redskins 14-7 on January 14, 1973.

Secondly, Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady is now the first NFL player to win six Super Bowl rings with this latest triumph for the Massachusetts team. With this sixth Super Bowl win for the Patriots, the 41-year old Brady also has been in nine Super Bowls over his career, more than any other NFL player ever – which is not a record to scoff at in any way.

However, when it comes to ratings, Super Bowl LIII is not one anyone’s going to want to brag about.

Shown on CBS for the first time since 2016 and with ad spots going for around $5 million each, the Rams’ loss scored a 44.9/68 in metered market results.

To put that in the starkest light of day, that’s a dip of just over 5.2% from the big NFL battle of February 4, 2018 on NBC in the first round of ratings. On a larger playing field, that metered market result for yesterday’s game is the worst the Super Bowl has done in the early numbers since the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals on February 1, 2009.

A very tight and seamlessly flowing offering from the network, yesterday’s Super Bowl is also down a bit over 8% from the metered markets of the last time CBS had the game three years ago.

Super Bowl 50 saw the Denver Broncos top the Carolina Panthers 24-10 on February 7, 2016 in a gridiron clash that eventually resulted in 111.9 million viewers and the honor at the time of being the third most watched show in U.S. TV history.

The lowest rated Super Bowl in eight years in the early metrics, last year’s Philadelphia Eagles’ victory 41-33 over the Patriots ended up with 103.4 million viewers, a nine-year low – so far.

Last night’s post-game premiere of James Corden-fronted reality series The World’s Best pulled in a 14.0 in the metered markets according to Nielsen numbers this morning. While unscripted apples to dramatic oranges, that’s a drop of almost 14% from the special Super Bowl episode of NBC’s This Is Us that aired after last year’s Eagles’ win.

No surprise for such a low scoring game that didn’t see a single touch down for ages, Super Bowl LIII peaked near the end with a 47.3 in metered markets in the 9:30-10 PM ET slot.

As we now turn our gaze to Super Bowl LIV set for next year in Miami, we’ll update with more Super Bowl LIII numbers, including that tepid Maroon 5 halftime show and The World’s Best debut later, as more data comes in.

As we have done in the past, let’s put the latest Super Bowl in greater perspective by checking out the Top 5 Super Bowl metered market ratings ever – a list that this year’s game is certainly not a part of:

1) 2015: 49.7 – Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks (NBC)
2) 2016: 49.0 – Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers (CBS)
3) 2017: 48.8 – Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons (Fox)
4) 2013: 48.1 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (CBS)
5) 2011: 47.9 – Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Fox)

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Funny stuff!

Thank you! I'll be here all eternity!

[Matrix]

The NFL has been pissing off their bread and butter (Midwest and the South i.e. the blue collar regions) lately. Not exactly a winning formula.

[T-post Tom]

L.A. market had lower TV rating for Super Bowl than country as a whole
But, highest LA rating since 1996. Relative success NFL?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ry-as-a-whole/

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

L.A. market had lower TV rating for Super Bowl than country as a whole

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ry-as-a-whole/

That's wonderful...

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

L.A. market had lower TV rating for Super Bowl than country as a whole
But, highest LA rating since 1996. Relative success NFL?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ry-as-a-whole/

Why are you trying to make me piss my pants laughing in the early AM sir?

[Matrix]

Originally Posted by T-post Tom

L.A. market had lower TV rating for Super Bowl than country as a whole
But, highest LA rating since 1996. Relative success NFL?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ry-as-a-whole/

USC and Lakers town. Uh oh, will the insecure NFL move them again ?

[Frazod]

They're going to have to give tickets away to fill that new stadium.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Frazod

They're going to have to give tickets away to fill that new stadium.

That's going to be funny... Especially in the years where they struggle.. The good news, like NOLA's dome, they can always use it for other things.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

The Bud Light commercials are ****ing stupid.

They do this big, "Don't be a douchey hipster and act like you're too good for Bud Light! Craft beer snobs are the worst amirite?!??!!!"

Then they put their Super Bowl commercials up, and guess what they're ALL about: the OTHER "people's beer" companies aren't high quality and use corn syrup!!! So get some higher standards and drink Bud Light!!!!

Those idiotic ****s can't have it both ways.

I never drank Bud Light in the past, but now I'm going to drink MORE craft beers just to ****ing spite them. I'm going to go to every small town bar I can find that only has domestics, and then act appalled, "What... you don't even have Fat Tire?!?! That's like... such a widely distributed beer! I'll just have water instead, thank you very much!"

I completely agree, I cannot stand those idiotic commercials. However, killing off the Bud Knight by having his head crushed because it turns out that they were doing a dual promo with Game of Thrones was a very big exception in my book. I was standing there watching it unfold and wondering just where in the hell are they going with this commercial and then the dragon appears and the GoT theme starts playing and it was like "Oh, shit! They actually killed him off!"

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

That's going to be funny... Especially in the years where they struggle.. The good news, like NOLA's dome, they can always use it for other things.

Like housing the homeless.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Like housing the homeless.

I think they prefer to call them micro-housing, but yes... And with SoCal's weather; fires, mud slides, quakes, and typhus winds, they might need it..

[Frazod]

The promotional opportunities are practically endless.

Free Syringe Day

Bonus EBT Card Day

Halftime On Field Shopping Cart Derby

Random Rows Receive Free Delousing

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Frazod

The promotional opportunities are practically endless.

Free Syringe Day

Bonus EBT Card Day

Halftime On Field Shopping Cart Derby

Random Rows Receive Free Delousing

But wait, once the homeless have entered the building, deem it to be their home, will the football team(s) be able to play if the field is full of tents they can't move because of the rights of others?

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Frazod

They're going to have to give tickets away to fill that new stadium.

"It’s just about unheard of, not only for the Super Bowl but for any sporting event, for the market of one of the two teams in the game to get a lower rating than the country as a whole."

"The NFL badly wants to see interest in football increase in Los Angeles, because it’s the second-biggest market in America. Los Angeles has 5.3 million television households while St. Louis has 1.2 million."

Looks like Goodell's master plan of building a $25 billion annual empire isn't going exactly as planned....lowest rated SB in a decade.

That's what they get for thinking everyone was too stupid to notice the outright rigging of games...especially the Chargers/Rams/Patriots.

Now he has brought serious attention to the officiating...they arent going to be able to fix games like they have in the past. Even the most homer of fans is starting to realize there is something off.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"It’s just about unheard of, not only for the Super Bowl but for any sporting event, for the market of one of the two teams in the game to get a lower rating than the country as a whole."

"The NFL badly wants to see interest in football increase in Los Angeles, because it’s the second-biggest market in America. Los Angeles has 5.3 million television households while St. Louis has 1.2 million."

Looks like Goodell's master plan of building a $25 billion annual empire isn't going exactly as planned....lowest rated SB in a decade.

That's what they get for thinking everyone was too stupid to notice the outright rigging of games...especially the Chargers/Rams/Patriots.

Now he has brought serious attention to the officiating...they arent going to be able to fix games like they have in the past. Even the most homer of fans is starting to realize there is something off.

What makes you think the officials won't still be able to influence outcomes of games? As long as there are fans who are committed to defending the league's officials for ticky-tack calls, swallowed whistles, or making calls when situationally convenient for the league's desired outcome (but not when it's not [conveniently swallowing their whistle]), why would you think Roger can't keep doing it?