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Sunday Night Football Ratings Record

Yes, it was ratings gold for a Week 4 game.
If New England had made the 56 yard field goal, the Bucs and Brady get the ball back with 50 seconds left. Still plenty of time for a game winning drive. New England probably should have tried to get a first down and run the clock instead of trying that long kick.

There's no controversy about Brady & Belichick. They respect each other and neither would have 6 Super Bowl wins without the other(Brady got #7 last year) Brady just wanted a change of scenery. He earned the right to go somewhere else after 20 years and now it looks like the Pats have found a new QB in Mac Jones. Brady's longevity and greatness is truly remarkable...
 
Agreed it was a great game and I can imagine why it was a solid ratings earner with Brady playing against his former team and his old long-time coach. I was at a sports bar where they were playing music rather than the TV audio so I didn't hear the announcers' comments, but I noticed Brady gave fairly long hugs, pats on the back and made conversation with many former teammates and assistant coaches after the game, while Belichick gave Brady a very quick what seemed like obligatory hug (which a few news sites labeled "awkward" in their headlines) before darting off. That said, Belichick did supposedly spend about 20 minutes in the Bucs' locker room afterward and they were seen walking out together.
 
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An interesting observation. The Tampa and Boston are both Eastern cities so the appeal
to the Midwest and West viewers are likely less. Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen are
both young and improving. Brady, a "has been" that never really was....IMO. As for OTA
viewership, Buffalo's television stations are wildly popular in Southern Ontario and the
"Golden Horseshoe" from Toronto to Niagara Falls is over 8 million in population....
You may want to check out online, Toronto/Hamilton television listings. You'll find the
Buffalo, NY OTA listings far outnumber the Ontario listings. Just because they are not counted
by so called "market size" doesn't mean those viewers do not exist......
 
Prescott Joe said:
An interesting observation. The Tampa and Boston are both Eastern cities so the appeal
to the Midwest and West viewers are likely less.
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You are forgetting that the Brady phenomenon of a mid-40's guy with nearly more rings than fingers is something that even non-football fans are attracted to. I followed a football game play by play for the first time in my entire life just to see how he did against his former team.

And the game had more money riding on it than, apparently, any game in history.

This was a nationwide event for the sport if there ever was one.
 
DavidEduardo said:
And the game had more money riding on it than, apparently, any game in history.
This was a nationwide event for the sport if there ever was one.
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The gambling and fantasy football teams are changing the way people view sports.

People used to root for the home team. Now there are other factors that determine favorites.
 
Prescott Joe said:
An interesting observation. The Tampa and Boston are both Eastern cities so the appeal
to the Midwest and West viewers are likely less. Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen are
both young and improving. Brady, a "has been" that never really was....IMO. As for OTA
viewership, Buffalo's television stations are wildly popular in Southern Ontario and the
"Golden Horseshoe" from Toronto to Niagara Falls is over 8 million in population....
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Canadian viewers don't count in the US ratings. You must be a bitter Bills fan to make such a ridiculous statement about Brady. He's one of the all time great QBs. 7 Super Bowl wins and 17 division titles in New England. He dominated the Bills for 20 years.
Scoreboard has the Bills at 0-4 in Super Bowls. Brady is still playing at a high level even now...
 
"Canadian viewers don't count in the US ratings. You must be a bitter Bills fan to make such a ridiculous statement about Brady. He's one of the all time great QBs. 7 Super Bowl wins and 17 division titles in New England. He dominated the Bills for 20 years.
Scoreboard has the Bills at 0-4 in Super Bowls. Brady is still playing at a high level even now..."

Prescott Joe said:
"Just because they are not counted by so called "market size" doesn't mean those viewers do not exist......"

Like many sport, football is a "team" sport. There is no "I" in team. What brady/belicheck did was to make sure they knew
the finer points of the rules and exploit any and all possible ambiguities. They did that better than anyone else.
brady wasn't particularly mobile, even in his youth. He wasn't particularly accurate in passing. With Dish Network
having just stopped carrying Tegna affiliates in cities like: Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Jacksonville,
St. Louis, Charlotte, Denver and more, we will never know the true "ratings" of tonights game.......
 
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Prescott Joe said:
Prescott Joe said:
"Just because they are not counted by so called "market size" doesn't mean those viewers do not exist......"

Like many sport, football is a "team" sport. There is no "I" in team. What brady/belicheck did was to make sure they knew
the finer points of the rules and exploit any and all possible ambiguities. They did that better than anyone else.
brady wasn't particularly mobile, even in his youth. He wasn't particularly accurate in passing. With Dish Network
having just stopped carrying Tegna affiliates in cities like: Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Jacksonville,
St. Louis, Charlotte, Denver and more, we will never know the true "ratings" of tonights game.......
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You obviously didn't watch Brady play for the last 20 years. He's been one of the most accurate passers of all time. He may not be "fleet of foot", but he wins. Football is a team sport, and Brady/Belichick won with different rosters every year. They deserve credit for that. I guess it must be hard for a Bills fan to accept reality after all those beat downs Brady gave them.

Canadian viewers are not counted in the US ratings. I didn't say they don't watch. NBC airs Sunday Night Football. That's a free over the air channel, so people don't need the Dish Network to watch it...
 
Prescott Joe said:
"Canadian viewers don't count in the US ratings. You must be a bitter Bills fan to make such a ridiculous statement about Brady. He's one of the all time great QBs. 7 Super Bowl wins and 17 division titles in New England. He dominated the Bills for 20 years.
Scoreboard has the Bills at 0-4 in Super Bowls. Brady is still playing at a high level even now..."

Prescott Joe said:
"Just because they are not counted by so called "market size" doesn't mean those viewers do not exist......"

Like many sport, football is a "team" sport. There is no "I" in team. What brady/belicheck did was to make sure they knew
the finer points of the rules and exploit any and all possible ambiguities. They did that better than anyone else.
brady wasn't particularly mobile, even in his youth. He wasn't particularly accurate in passing. With Dish Network
having just stopped carrying Tegna affiliates in cities like: Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Jacksonville,
St. Louis, Charlotte, Denver and more, we will never know the true "ratings" of tonights game.......
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The Tegna/Dish tantrum isn't going to affect the ratings. Dish subscribers represent a tiny portion of the overall number of television households, and the ratings don't measure every household anyway. As with radio, only a small number of households per market participate and that data is extrapolated into the multi-millions you see Nielsen release to the public every week.

Yes, football is a team sport. Every individual on the team is obligated to do his utmost to help the team win. How, exactly, did Brady and Belichick fail in that?

Oh, and ... wide right. :devilish:
 
Prescott Joe said:
"With Dish Network
having just stopped carrying Tegna affiliates in cities like: Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Jacksonville,
St. Louis, Charlotte, Denver and more, we will never know the true "ratings" of tonights game.......
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Dish does best in more rural areas where a cable subscription that includes high-speed Internet is not available in a combination wired service. In big markets like you name, Dish does not have a particularly significant penetration. And the overnights only include the metered very large markets.
 
Prescott Joe said:
Like many sport, football is a "team" sport. There is no "I" in team. What brady/belicheck did was to make sure they knew
the finer points of the rules and exploit any and all possible ambiguities. They did that better than anyone else.
brady wasn't particularly mobile, even in his youth. He wasn't particularly accurate in passing.
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I've never been an American football fan as the game seems slow and is usually just a bunch of guys jumping on each other. But in the last few years, I started watching select games where Brady played; at first because of his fame and later because of his skill. He had and still has the ability to make the whole team better because he is so powerfully talented.
 
tbolt909 said:
You obviously didn't watch Brady play for the last 20 years. He's been one of the most accurate passers of all time. He may not be "fleet of foot", but he wins. Football is a team sport, and Brady/Belichick won with different rosters every year. They deserve credit for that. I guess it must be hard for a Bills fan to accept reality after all those beat downs Brady gave them.

Canadian viewers are not counted in the US ratings. I didn't say they don't watch. NBC airs Sunday Night Football. That's a free over the air channel, so people don't need the Dish Network to watch it...
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I didn't say I was a BILLS fan.... Your recollection of NFL and reality are, of course, different from mine. I remember
the patriots who were caught listening in on other teams play calling. I remember "inflate gate" where a supposed
professional quarterback doesn't know that the football is underinflated.... to his and his team's advantage.
Or perhaps were patriots personnel were caught attempting to cheat on opponents. See below where Sean McDermott
has bill belicose's son escorted off the field....

Perhaps you can enlighten me and others on the following: Why is it that no other professional team in the
NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, MLB, etc, etc, etc has EVER had so many situations where they have been accused of
and/or found guilty of cheating????
If the patriots and brady were true champions, they wouldn't need to resort to such tactics to win.........
 
EricStein said:
I find this surprising, because I thought Boston has one of the weakest and worst performing NBC stations in the country (by NBC's fault, by the way).
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Huh? You find it surprising that the game delivered high ratings??? It was the Patriots playing against Tom Brady. It could have been on the Weather Channel and the ratings would have been huge.

Side note for Prescott Joe -- Tom Brady threw 5 more TD passes today against Miami. Not bad for a "has been" as you called him. No asterisks on any of the New England championships either...
 
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A late one tonight for sure. Following the long-delayed start of the 2nd half due to rain, the game finally wrapped up a bit after 12:30 a.m. Eastern time.
 
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