It’s Brady, Bitch!
Best Regular Season Record in NFL History: 16-0
Most TD Passes: Tom Brady, 50
Most TD Receptions: Randy Moss, 23
Most Team TD in NFL History: 75
Champagne Corks Popped by Old Farts in Miami: 0
% Chance Mercury Morris will appear on ESPN by Monday: 100
Tags: ESPN, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Pursuit of Perfection, Randy Moss, Tom Brady
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30 December 2007 at 12:58 pm
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By Sam Evans, Associated Press Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
The numbers are in and the preliminary ratings indicate the 29 December 2007 game between the Patriots and Giants was the most watched broadcast in U.S. television history.
Up to this point, the most watched program in U.S. television history was the M*A*S*H series finale: “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” which aired in 50.15 million households on 28 February, 1983 with a 77% share of the entire viewing audience. The M*A*S*H broadcast had 105.9 million total viewers. Since 2000, the most watched program was Super Bowl XLI Indianapolis Colts vs. Chicago Bears), which had 93.1 million million viewers on 4 February, 2007 .
Overnight ratings of the Patriots-Giants game show 53.2 million households watched the game. In addition, Nielsen Media Research is reporting overnight viewers totaled more than 107.3 million on the three networks broadcasting the game (NFL Network, NBC, CBS) and an 83% share of the total television viewing audience.
After weeks of insisting they wouldn’t cave in, NFL officials did just that Wednesday. As a result, all of America saw the Patriots’ make history. Saturday night’s game between New England and the New York Giants on the NFL Network, was also simulcast nationwide on CBS and NBC. It was the first time in NFL history the same game was broadcast on three separate networks at the same time.