NFL Executive Says The NBA Has Taken All The Attention Away from Super Bowl Week
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The thread was about the week leading up to the Superbowl, not the actual game. Read the thread title. Nobody said the game wasn't going to do numbers. Of course it would.these fools thought their annual tmz trade gossip columns would actually take away from the fukking superbowl?
So the trade didn't body the week leading up to the Superbowl which is everything for the NFL
So the trade didn't body the week leading up to the Superbowl which is everything for the NFL
Lol. Since when is the lead up "everything"?
From earlier in this same thread. The week leading up to the Superbowl is their all star weekend.
My Wigga Cooper Flagg about to stop all this NFL nonsense 
There isn't going to be much buzz in the offseason either....or the draft.
The NBA can capitalize off this over the next few months. The Lakers have become must-see TV in a matter of weeks.
You were too gungho about getting these numbers off that you didn't even read my post properly.I'm pretty sure they measure every 15minutes. 126 milly is the average number per interval. So, Let it go...
"According to Fox, viewership peaked during the second quarter of the game, with an average of 135.7 million viewers between 8 and 8:15 p.m. ET."
Super Bowl 2025 Hits 126 Million Viewers, Most-Watched Ever
The Super Bowl hit 126 million average viewers — the most-watched on record.variety.com
With the way the game unfolded, I said "I'd imagine the large majority mentally switched off from the game part way through the 3rd quarter."
These numbers aren't going to tell you engagement rate on actually watching and being invested in it, they're just numbers of folks who have their TVs on. That's one thing y'all bu-bu-but TV ratings cats completely fail to contextulize. The fact that viewership peaked during the 2nd quarter (right before the halftime show) should tell you all you need to know. The actual number(s) are rather inconsequential because they can throw out anything and nobody is going to question it.
With that in mind, I highly doubt that the average viewership was only 9m less than when it peaked at/near the halftime show. That means there was only a 6% increase at its highest peak over the course of 4 hours and that it didn't drop notably any lower than that at any point, which is hard to believe given how that game unfolded.
But I digress.
Let me just paint you something real quick -
I spoke to three people during the game.
One of the homies at a watch party facetime'd me during the 3rd quarter and we chopped it up briefly about Kdot, and I could see in the background that there might have been 2-3 people who were sitting down watching the game, and the rest (I'd imagine 20-30 people) were preoccupied doing something else. I spoke to my pops, and he was playing spades and they had the game on in the background. I spoke to someone else who said he couldn't even be bothered watching the rest of the game, talking about some cotdamn conspiracy theories on why KC were selling.
Which brings me to the question - what do these ratings really tell us other than folks having their TVs on?
The outcome has very little to do with the quality of play.
I'm talking about what kept folks engaged throughout. There definitely would've been a portion who were invested in KC getting beat down, but I'd imagine there would've been infinitely more people who tuned out from it. I'm not entirely sure what you're even trying to argue here given you've already been on record saying the NFL product has been poor this season. Quite clearly you too should be of that belief that the quality of it has absolutely no bearing on how many folks will check it to watch it.
Now you're arguing a whole bunch of straw men.
Nobody in here even remotely insinuated, let alone stated, that folks wouldn't tune it to watch the SB. The OP even stated "Obviously the game will still get 100M viewers". The biggest story about it was centered around something that had absolutely nothing to do with football. How the fukk are you trying to frame this as something that was entirely about the element of football, and not the halftime show and not how the SB is viewed as an entertainment event?
Futhermore, the "real world" doesn't give a damn about the SB. Outside of this country, the SB is rather meaningless.
I can't possibly fathom why you're talking about social media having limits as if TV ratings (strictly in the U.S.) don't have significantly less so.
This is hilarious given the biggest storylines of the SB were mostly centered around gossip.these fools thought their annual tmz trade gossip columns would actually take away from the fukking superbowl?
You couldn't even quote me with this shyt because you know I didn't even do anything of the sort.
And it's ironic how none of y'all who've came in here after the fact have said anything to defend the actual quality of the game, despite trying to shame the NBA for trad activity, despite it still being an element of the game. Is Kendrick Lamar an element of football? Is Travis Kelce proposing to Taylor Swift an element of football? Is Trump's appearance an element of football? Is all the MAGA rhetoric an element of football?
Why would he do that when the NFL is only poppin' in this country?
