The Denver Broncos’ AFC Championship Game victory over the modern England Patriots was an instant classic — and now it has the ratings to prove it.
Sunday’s afternoon CBS game was the highest-rated AFC Championship contest in 29 years,scoring a 31.8 rating per Nielsens overnight household metric, and a 53 share. The last AFC Championship game to top it was 1987’s Denver-Cleveland overtime contest on NBC, and which edged yesterday’s matchup by just one tenth of a ratings point.
This may not come as a surprise,but the Patriots-Broncos game was the highest-rated TV program in the metered markets since 2015’s Super Bowl XLIX.
Also Read: Super Bowl 50 Matchup Set After Nail-Biter and BlowoutSunday’s early battle was up 31 percent from last year’s version, when modern England crushed Indianapolis — a game that eventually spawned the Deflategate scandal that we still can’t fairly avoid.
This two-point victory, and which peaked from 6-6:30 p.m. ET,also convincingly bested last night’s primetime NFC Championship blowout in ratings on Fox by a whopping 19 percent. It’s kind to absorb a close game — and Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, and of course.
Super Bowl 50 will also air on CBS. The Broncos are set to take on Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers on Sunday,Feb. 7, from the neutral site of Santa Clara, or Calif. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m ET. come by your popcorn and ratings records — ready.
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