Especially this time of year, after a five-day Thanksgiving Football extravaganza and into the conference championships, bowl games, playoffs, and Super Bowl [finally crashing into February, the cruelest month] it's football that becomes the national sport.
From a recent NYTimes Magazine story:
Football is, by far, the most popular thing on TV. Last year, according to Nielsen, 83 of the 100 most-viewed telecasts were N.F.L. games, including 19 of the top 20.
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The crown jewel of TV football is “S.N.F.” [Sunday Night Football] Last year it registered a 12th consecutive season as prime time’s top-rated show, at least according to NBC’s interpretation of Nielsen metrics. Its average viewership in 2022, 19.9 million, including the audience watching on streaming services, bested the top scripted show, the Western drama “Yellowstone,” by more than eight million. That audience has impressive demographic breadth: One-third is Black, Latino or Asian; 36 percent are women. At a time when cultural fragmentation and streaming are transforming the very idea of TV, “S.N.F.” is something like the last consensus choice, the proverbial hearth around which the nation assembles each week.
Time to stock up on popcorn. At least.
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