We know a lot of you spent Thanksgiving Day consuming turkey (effectively, most of you), visiting with family members, and watching soccer. Apparently, a complete lot of you have been watching soccer, as a file 42 million viewers tuned in to Fox Sports and its streaming platform, taking within the Dallas Cowboys towards the New York Giants.
A brand new common season file was set by the competition, received by Dallas, 28-20. The sport matched two NFC East rivals in a bout that may go a great distance towards seeing who makes the playoffs.
The Giants have been additionally concerned within the earlier record-setting sport, held on Dec. 3 1990 and that includes Big Blue towards the San Francisco 49ers.
Three Texas cities, in addition to Las Vegas and Kansas City, have been the main markets for the Thanksgiving sport, which was up 3% over final yr’s comparable window.
But wait, there’s extra.
Not to be outdone, NBC Sports is touting its presentation of the Minnesota Vikings’ down-to-the-wire 33-26 victory over the New England Patriots because the second-most watched Thanksgiving primetime sport ever. It averaged a Total Audience Delivery of greater than 26 million viewers, based mostly on preliminary information, throughout NBC TV, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL Digital platforms.
Last night time’s sport, which featured quite a few lead modifications and a tied rating in every quarter, averaged an approximate 25.9 million English-language viewers, rating behind solely the 2015 Bears-Packers sport in primetime viewership on Thanksgiving (27.8 million viewers).
In addition, Patriots-Vikings ranks because the most-watched primetime common season sport since NBC Sports’ presentation of “The Return” by Buccaneers QB Tom Brady to New England final season (28.4 million on 10/3/21).
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