On Sunday morning, the Broncos faced the Jaguars in London. The game was available only on ESPN+. On Tuesday, ESPN proclaimed that it was the most-viewed event ever on the subscription streaming service.
However, ESPN provided no numbers to back it up.
“On Sunday, the first-ever exclusive NFL game on ESPN+ -- the Denver Broncos 21-17 comeback victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars from Wembley Stadium in London -- became the most-viewed event ever on the industry-leading streaming service,” ESPN said in a statement.
It’s meaningless without the numbers. And if the numbers were good, it’s a no-brainer that ESPN would have announced the numbers.
Implicit in this reality is that, if Broncos-Jaguars was “the most-viewed event on the industry-leading streaming service,” no other events on ESPN+ have done much to brag about.