Brett Favre Ratings Beat the World Series, Handily
1-liner, Baseball, NFL November 4th. 2009, 4:30pmBrett Favre, Ratings Bonanza: Brett Favre returning to Lambeau Sunday resulted in incredible ratings for FOX - 17.4 rating and 29.8 million viewers. It is estimated that 39 million were watching around 7 pm. That easily bested anything the World Series has done so far (evrn though the World Series numbers have been vastly improved over last year). Without competition from the NFL Sunday night, game four of the World Series generated a 13.5 rating and 22.8 million viewers. Game five’s numbers were impressive, too. Favre’s return to Green Bay wasn’t the best regular season game in FOX history, though - that honor belongs to San Francisco vs. Dallas in 1995 (32.1 million viewers). In that game, the 49ers rolled behind … Elvis Grbac, 38-20. [USA Today, Media Life Magazine]
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
And I am a bigger and better sports fan because of it.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I would be nice if a World Series game could be on at 4 PM
November 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Montana, Young, Bono, Grbac…was it the system?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Brett Favre and 2 North East teams are rolling in the television numbers for their respective sports!!!!! ESPN bias.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
It’s too bad the Eagles/Giants game wasn’t in NY. Then it could have went head to head with baseball. Would have been interesting which was the ratings winner.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
How does where the game was played make a difference is TV ratings?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
elvis grbac lives right by me
November 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I gots a question for NY fans.
Are Yankee fans mostly Jet/Giant fans?
Are Mets fans mostly Jet/Giant fans?
Or is there no correlation at all really.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Well the reason it was booted from Sunday night was because they didn’t want two games in Philly at the same time. therefore if it was in NY then it would have stayed sunday night football
November 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
The Ravens Super Bowl team downfall began when they decided to stick with Grbac over Randall Cunningham.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
So aren’t these numbers kind of a justification for the “overblown” Favre coverage on ESPN. People love to rip ESPN for all things these days, but I think numbers like these show that they know what they’re doing.
But I do have a serious question. Should Favre have lead that night over the World Series if it gets higher ratings? Or should championship games always lead no matter what? If that’s the case, where is the line drawn? You wouldn’t lead with MLS right? What about a UFC heavyweight title matchup?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
But.. but… Brian Billick is an offensive genius! He was the missing piece!
November 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I thought the Ravens decided to release Dilfer after the superbowl. that seems dumb now.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I think injuries derailed that team more than anything else. They had a lot of off-the-field issues, too, with Ray Lewis’s Super Bowl stabbing and Jamal Lewis setting up a drug transaction.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Thats wrong. There is always one Sunday without SNF when the world series is goin on. It has nothing to do with Philly or New York or any location.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I’ve found that most Giant fans are Yankees fans and Mets fans are Jets fans. The Giants and Yankees are THE two franchises in NY.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Thanks!!! So TBL is kinda the odd Jet/Yankee fan then???
November 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I would also say that it’s hard for any team so heavily slanted toward one side of the ball to win more than one Super Bowl. The Rams couldn’t do it, the Bucs couldn’t do it, the ‘85 Bears couldn’t do it. For a team to endure over a long stretch they really do need to have some balance.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
The Ravens Super Bowl team downfall began when they decided to stick with Grbac over Randall Cunningham.
and they won when they benched Tony Banks for Dilfer
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
The Ray Ray stuff happened before the Super Bowl. If I remember correctly, the Ravens were struggling with Grbac, he was injured and missed 3 or 4 games. They were undefeated with Cunningham. Grbac returned and they struggled again.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Oops. Well then they must have moved that start from 4 et to 1. Because they definitely switched the start time on that football game.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
yup
November 4th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Why take the Sunday during the WS off and then play on Monday against the WS? Makes no sense.
/I watched all those sporting events!
//go bar!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
The NFL stipulated it in the contract it signed with NBC a few years ago so as to appease Fox, which also airs its games. It couldn’t ask both NBC and ESPN to take the week off from showing games, and since ESPN had to pay a shitton for a non-flexed slate it wasn’t effected.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I knew a guy in college from Long Island who was a Jet/Yankee fan…
November 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
No, its because SNF didn’t wanna go up against the Yankees
/TBL’d
November 4th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Both games will have higher ratings than ANY NBA Finals game this season.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Favre’s return to Green Bay wasn’t the best regular season game in FOX history, though - that honor belongs to San Francisco vs. Dallas in 1995 (32.1 million viewers).
That game was hyped up because Rice yelled at reporters for asking too many questions about Deions impact on the previous seasons SB championship during the preseason. All season, up to that point, Deion was relentless in making fun of Rice’s outburst, accent and all. Check out who burned who on the games first TD.