At a time when practically nothing more on American television can attract 25 million viewers, the NFL had two different games in the brand of 25 million viewers on Sunday.
Fox announced that his afternoon game between the Cowboys and the Bears reached 25.5 million viewers, while NBC announced that its Sunday Night football match between the Chiefs and the giants reached 25.3 million spectators.
The Spectator Mark of 25 million is something that non -fotball programming simply cannot deliver: the most recent world series, the NBA finals and the Academy Awards, to name some of the other important events on American television, everyone delivered less than 20 million viewers.
Those audience numbers help explain why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is anxious for renegotiate the television rights agreements of the League. There is nothing more lucrative on American television than in NFL, and Goodell knows that the League has influence on negotiations with television partners who are eager to maintain NFL in the predictable future.
The NFL has the ability to opt for its Sunday and Thursday television agreements after the 2029 season and outside its football agreement on Monday night after 2030, but the League can try to ensure new agreements before, knowing that its television partners want to cling to the huge audience numbers delivered by the NFL.