NFL’s Most-Watched Common Season Recreation Ever Thanksgiving’s Giants-Cowboys – Deadline

We all know lots of you spent Thanksgiving Day consuming turkey (properly, most of you), visiting with family members, and watching soccer. Apparently, a complete lot of you have been watching soccer, as a document 42 million viewers tuned in to Fox Sports activities and its streaming platform, taking within the Dallas Cowboys towards the New York Giants.

A brand new common season document was set by the competition, received by Dallas, 28-20. The sport matched two NFC East rivals in a bout that may go a good distance towards seeing who makes the playoffs.

The Giants have been additionally concerned within the earlier record-setting sport, held on Dec. 3 1990 and that includes Huge Blue towards the San Francisco 49ers.

Three Texas cities, in addition to Las Vegas and Kansas Metropolis, have been the main markets for the Thanksgiving sport, which was up 3% over final yr’s comparable window.

However wait, there’s extra.

To not be outdone, NBC Sports activities is touting its presentation of the Minnesota Vikings’ down-to-the-wire 33-26 victory over the New England Patriots because the second-most watched Thanksgiving primetime sport ever. It averaged a Whole Viewers Supply of greater than 26 million viewers, based mostly on preliminary knowledge, throughout NBC TV, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports activities Digital, and NFL Digital platforms.

Final evening’s sport, which featured quite a few lead modifications and a tied rating in every quarter, averaged an approximate 25.9 million English-language viewers, rating behind solely the 2015 Bears-Packers sport in primetime viewership on Thanksgiving (27.8 million viewers).

As well as, Patriots-Vikings ranks because the most-watched primetime common season sport since NBC Sports activities’ presentation of “The Return” by Buccaneers QB Tom Brady to New England final season (28.4 million on 10/3/21).