[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe

I don't care to support the industry that encourages mysogny, aggression, lawlessness, anti-Americanism, and felons.

I would appear that the poster is far from alone.

This, excerpted from the Sports Media Watch website, current to nine hours ago:

"The biggest day in football (and sports, and television) has arrived once again. Super Bowl Sunday has remained the ultimate communal viewing experience even in an era of decline for almost all other programming, and there is no reason to expect that to change anytime soon. Nonetheless, one can see signs of erosion if one looks under the hood.

The first and most obvious of those signs is the household rating, which last year dropped to 36.9 — the lowest for any Super Bowl since 1969. After topping a 40 rating for three-straight decades, the Super Bowl has fallen below that mark in each of the past two years. The decline is largely obscured when looking at the viewership, which in the past two years has been bolstered by the inclusion of out-of-home viewing. Last year’s linear audience of 99.2 million ranks just outside of the ten largest ever for a Super Bowl.

Yet even in viewership it is clear that the “Big Game” is not quite as big as it had been. Last year’s audience of 99 million (with out-of-home included) is lower than the 103 million the game averaged – without out-of-home — five years ago. Factor in the out-of-home audience (which from 2018-20 was issued separately from the final nationals) and the drop-off is steep: from nearly 115 million in ’18 to shy of 100 million four years later. The drop-off remains steep even when compared to years when no out-of-home viewing was measured at all. Last year’s game fell more than ten million viewers shy of Patriots-Falcons in ’17 (111.3M), Broncos-Panthers in ’16 (111.9M), Patriots-Seahawks in ’15 (114.4M), Seahawks-Broncos in ’14 (112.2M), Giants-Patriots in ’12 (111.4M) and Packers-Steelers in ’11 (111.0M)."

I couldn't find any solid numbers from yesterday's game--just some estimates which vary wildly by source--but it appears that America's High Holy Day is losing a significant number of worshippers, in my opinion for all the reason the quoted post mentioned, plus a few more. Most prominently, in my opinion, because America is sick to death of all the "woke" posturing and grandstanding.

[ScottGo]

I prefer next weeks superbowl the Daytona 500!

[Daxdog]

Well we know who won, I hear it was the officials, but thank goodness they played the “2” national anthems!

[JGibson]

I heard Stormy Daniels is performing next year at halftime time. lol.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by JGibson

I heard Stormy Daniels is performing next year at halftime time. lol.

One-upping Janet Jackson?

[bimmertl]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

I would appear that the poster is far from alone.

This, excerpted from the Sports Media Watch website, current to nine hours ago:

"The biggest day in football (and sports, and television) has arrived once again. Super Bowl Sunday has remained the ultimate communal viewing experience even in an era of decline for almost all other programming, and there is no reason to expect that to change anytime soon. Nonetheless, one can see signs of erosion if one looks under the hood.

The first and most obvious of those signs is the household rating, which last year dropped to 36.9 — the lowest for any Super Bowl since 1969. After topping a 40 rating for three-straight decades, the Super Bowl has fallen below that mark in each of the past two years. The decline is largely obscured when looking at the viewership, which in the past two years has been bolstered by the inclusion of out-of-home viewing. Last year’s linear audience of 99.2 million ranks just outside of the ten largest ever for a Super Bowl.

Yet even in viewership it is clear that the “Big Game” is not quite as big as it had been. Last year’s audience of 99 million (with out-of-home included) is lower than the 103 million the game averaged – without out-of-home — five years ago. Factor in the out-of-home audience (which from 2018-20 was issued separately from the final nationals) and the drop-off is steep: from nearly 115 million in ’18 to shy of 100 million four years later. The drop-off remains steep even when compared to years when no out-of-home viewing was measured at all. Last year’s game fell more than ten million viewers shy of Patriots-Falcons in ’17 (111.3M), Broncos-Panthers in ’16 (111.9M), Patriots-Seahawks in ’15 (114.4M), Seahawks-Broncos in ’14 (112.2M), Giants-Patriots in ’12 (111.4M) and Packers-Steelers in ’11 (111.0M)."

I couldn't find any solid numbers from yesterday's game--just some estimates which vary wildly by source--but it appears that America's High Holy Day is losing a significant number of worshippers, in my opinion for all the reason the quoted post mentioned, plus a few more. Most prominently, in my opinion, because America is sick to death of all the "woke" posturing and grandstanding.

Super Bowl ratings 2023: Fox Sports gets 113 million viewers