NFL attracts biggest audience of the year with Cowboys-Packers on Fox

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America’s Team continues to deliver the biggest chunk of American eyeballs, in comparison to anything else that currently captures a simultaneous audience.

Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, Sunday’s game between the Cowboys and Packers at Lambeau Field generated 29.2 million average viewers on Fox. It was the biggest audience of the season to date, for any game.

Previously, the biggest audience came back in Week Two, with Bengals-Cowboys cranking out 27.2 million.

Karp adds that Sunday’s number puts Cowboys-Packers among the fifteen most-watched shows of the year.

Cowboys-Packers may soon have company. On Sunday, Cowboys-Vikings lands in the prime national window, on CBS. Four days later, Giants-Cowboys falls as the middle game of a Thanksgiving triple header, with the game being televised by Fox.

Last year, Raiders-Cowboys on Thanksgiving had the highest regular-season audience, with 40.8 million average viewer. With the Giants at 7-2 and the Cowboys at 6-3, this one could crack 45 million — given the involvement of the New York market.

40 responses to “NFL attracts biggest audience of the year with Cowboys-Packers on Fox

  1. good think Kurt Cousins had no idea the world was watching him play football there at the end

  2. Funny how that happens just as winter/daylight savings hits the east coast. It wasn’t the game.

  3. Packers have a national fan base as well. I don’t think the Vikings top it even with the better record. Cowboys vs Giants probably will be huge.

  4. Football fans like me will watch the Kansas City game for the excitement of Patrick Mahomes, but the Dallas game is purely a hate watch, and I think we’re a huge chunk of the audience—much bigger than the gamblers.

  5. Fans of the “Housewives” are tuning in to see if this “Dak Prescott guy” is a real NFL quarterback. Cowboys fans have the same question.

  6. Bet the fact that Joe Buck wasn’t calling the game brought in about 5 million viewers alone….

  7. The Vikings earned that victory, on the road, against a SuperBowl contender, making themselves a contender in the process.

    However, Kirk Cousins nearly *issed it away several times. He dodged many eye-rolling bullets. He has to be more savvy down the stretch.

  8. What makes you think it was because of the Cowboys? The Green Bay Packers, even when they suck, are the real America’s Team.

  9. “On Sunday, Cowboys-Vikings lands in the prime national window, on CBS”
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    And? Besides that your semi-discreetly letting your homer flag fly…

  10. Once again America’s Team delivers. Hate to break it to you haters like it or not no matter what Dallas will ALWAYS be America’s Team.

  11. Saw a guys TikTok video awhile back that says it perfectly. America’s Team is not the team that wins all the playoff games and Super Bowls because that team doesn’t exist America’s Team is the most admired,loved,hated and talked about. That team would be the Dallas Cowboys.

  12. WHY are people still calling the”cowboys/cowgirls” AMERICAS TEAM”?

    do they put up a fight ? “yes” depending on the day.
    can they win a championship ? “yes” depending on the day
    can they get to the 2nd round of the playoffs “?”
    depends on the “OVER EGOTISTICAL” idiot they have for an “OWNER,GM,DR.COACH”.

    they shouldn’t be calling them selves “AMERICAS TEAM”……

    CAUSE AMERICA HAS 32 TEAMS AND NOT 1 TRUE POWERHOUSE these days.

    they might have ben americas team “in the 70-80’s”
    BUT NOT ANYMORE

  13. BuckyBadger says:
    November 15, 2022 at 5:52 pm
    Packers have a national fan base as well. I don’t think the Vikings top it even with the better record. Cowboys vs Giants probably will be huge
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    Cowboys have a life time national fan base… the Packers have wagon riders and Rodgers has chased many of them away in the past year.

  14. I wonder if winning the ratings bowl takes the sting out of not winning the Super Bowl in so long.

  15. I watched Yellowstone.
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    Not a fan of soap operas whether they’re on in the daytime or primetime…….

  16. owboysfan8369 says:
    November 15, 2022 at 6:53 pm
    Saw a guys TikTok video awhile back that says it perfectly. America’s Team is not the team that wins all the playoff games and Super Bowls because that team doesn’t exist America’s Team is the most admired,loved,hated and talked about. That team would be the Dallas Cowboys.
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    I stopped reading at “TikTok.”

  17. Vikings Bills would have gotten way bigger numbers in that time slot. It was the game of the year and Fox blew it.

  18. These figures prove unequivocally that the Packers and Cowboys have the most TV fans across the entire country. Inarguable.

    Because it ain’t for the football. Dallas has not played an exciting brand of football since Troy Aikman was QB. Honestly, it doesn’t matter who the Dallas starting QB happens to be, I only tune in if they are playing some scrappy backup.

    And the Packers have only rarely delivered exciting ball during the Aaron Rogers era. Rogers is either totally on point and steamrolls his opponent, or he and the rest of the team just struggle with sloppiness.

    And I know I am not alone. If either team is on at any sports bar I visit, the only people paying attention to the game are those totally committed, wearing jerseys.

    So, yeah, put them both in the same game and give them an ideal broadcast time a lot, and end up with huge ratings, and that is your sign that these two franchises have boards of followers everywhere.

  19. Why are they America’s team? love or hate em, people get juiced over them, the comments here alone reflect that, haters have no time for them yet like clockwork always feel the need to talk about them, they live rent free in everyone’s mind in the pro football world

  20. nflhistorybuff68 says:
    November 15, 2022 at 6:05 pm
    Why not, bettors lost their shorts on the Cowboys …
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    General public bettors lost money on the Cowboys. Sharp money came in late and for the Packers, as is often the case with underdogs by more than a FG. A relatively small portion of the TV audience has money on the games–Non-betting interest in the sport drives TV ratings. Otherwise, blowouts involving teams with tiny fan support would have similar ratings to a Packers/Cowboys OT game.

  21. Everyone loves to watch the cowboys lose, and when it happens against the real America’s team, it’s all the sweeter.

  22. This can’t be true. My Vikings are winning the NFC North. They even beat the Bills in the Super Bowl preview game.

  23. America’s fascination with a mediocre product. Cowboys continue to be a draw. Of course there are probably a bunch of people who hate the cowboys to watch them lose.

  24. Everyone tunes in to see a 140 million dollar quarterback choke with either average or mediocrity play as the Cowboys continues to fall short for the past 26 years. The Cowboys Super Bowl trophies have dust and cobwebs in the Trophy case.

  25. There was only one other game being played right? Also CBS did not have a double header so it was the only football game on. So your choices for football were this game, Red zone, or a Hallmark Christmas movie.

  26. So referees keeping the game close paid off for the league. It’s entertainment after all….

  27. Why are they America’s team?
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    They’re not.

    90% of the audience tunes in to watch them lose.

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