Last night’s Super Bowl had more viewers than any other Super Bowl game in history:
NEW YORK — The New York Giants’ thrilling win over New England was the most-watched Super Bowl ever with 97.5 million viewers, a total that is second only to the “M-A-S-H” finale audience, Nielsen Media Research said Monday.
The game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996. The final “M-A-S-H” episode, which drew 106 million viewers in 1983, is the only other show in American broadcast history watched by more people.
Sunday’s game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tight contest with an exciting finish involving a team that was attempting to make history as the NFL’s first unbeaten team since 1972.
I’m pretty sure that this was the first Super Bowl that I’ve watched until literally the last play since the Giants beat the Bills with a field goal in the final seconds of Super Bowl XXV.
It seems I wasn’t alone.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I loved the game!
But then, I’m a Giants fan!!
George Vreeland Hill