We all know a lot of you spent Thanksgiving Day consuming turkey (effectively, most of you), visiting with family members, and watching soccer. Apparently, a complete lot of you have been watching soccer, as a file 42 million viewers tuned in to Fox Sports activities and its streaming platform, taking within the Dallas Cowboys in opposition to the New York Giants.
A brand new common season file was set by the competition, received by Dallas, 28-20. The sport matched two NFC East rivals in a bout that can go a great distance towards seeing who makes the playoffs.
The Giants have been additionally concerned within the earlier record-setting recreation, held on Dec. 3 1990 and that includes Massive Blue in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers.
Three Texas cities, in addition to Las Vegas and Kansas Metropolis, have been the main markets for the Thanksgiving recreation, which was up 3% over final 12 months’s comparable window.
However wait, there’s extra.
To not be outdone, NBC Sports activities is touting its presentation of the Minnesota Vikings’ down-to-the-wire 33-26 victory over the New England Patriots because the second-most watched Thanksgiving primetime recreation ever. It averaged a Complete Viewers Supply of greater than 26 million viewers, based mostly on preliminary knowledge, throughout NBC TV, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports activities Digital, and NFL Digital platforms.
Final night time’s recreation, which featured quite a few lead adjustments and a tied rating in every quarter, averaged an approximate 25.9 million English-language viewers, rating behind solely the 2015 Bears-Packers recreation in primetime viewership on Thanksgiving (27.8 million viewers).
As well as, Patriots-Vikings ranks because the most-watched primetime common season recreation since NBC Sports activities’ presentation of “The Return” by Buccaneers QB Tom Brady to New England final season (28.4 million on 10/3/21).
