NFL Released Their Final Attendance Numbers And They're Absolutely Monstrous
We all know the NFL is king in the USA regarding TV ratings. Well, here are a few examples to reinforce that statement.
In the latest TV ratings, NBC's broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals' AFC Wild Card playoff win over the Baltimore Ravens averaged 21.2 million total viewers and a 5.6 demo rating � dominating Sunday night in all measures, of course, though down a tick from the year-ago prelim numbers for the close Steelers/Chiefs match-up.
Monday's Cowboys-Buccaneers NFL NFC Wild Card playoff game averaged 30.6 million viewers on ESPN and ABC, per Nielsen fast-nationals, making it the most-watched NFL game on the ESPN family of networks since Super Bowl 40 on ABC in 2006 � and the most-watched outside of the Super Bowl since Cardinals-Cowboys on ABC in 1999 (30.7M).
Ben Fischer reported another excellent news for the game. The publication reports that NFL games attracted 69,442 fans on average, the most since 2016.
The Lions had a 23.1 percent increase in attendance, a league-high, while the Jaguars were second in that department with an increase of 10.1 percent. As for the Chicago Bears, they suffered the worst decline among teams that played all their home games on U.S. soil and didn't venture abroad, with attendance going down 1.7 percent from 2021.
The NFL sold 96.7 percent of all its tickets, which marks a rise from the 94.6 percent sale from pre-pandemic 2019.
