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Lions-Steelers NFL Preseason Game Had More Viewers Than Every NBA Christmas Day Game In 2021

The NFL is still king.

CBS released the broadcast ratings for the Lions-Steelers preseason game from Sunday, and it averaged 5.821 million viewers with a peak audience of 7.597 million viewers.

Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio crunched the numbers and concluded that the Lions-Steelers preseason game.

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Those numbers can be compared to all sorts of audience figures from other sports at other times. Here’s a fascinating nugget. The Sunday-afternoon-in-late-August audience surpassed the average audience for each of the five Christmas Day NBA games played in 2021.

Hawks-Knicks at noon ET? 2.924 million average viewers. Celtics-Bucks at 2:29 p.m. ET drew 4.933 million. Warriors-Suns, with a 5:13 p.m. ET tip, got 5.189 million. Nets-Lakers, starting at 8:00 p.m. ET, had 5.753 million. Finally, Mavs-Jazz did 1.519 million.

Fans reacted to the NFL’s dominance over the NBA.

No surprise, Christmas NBA games are overhyped. Glad NFL finally scheduled games on Christmas again.

https://twitter.com/CantGuardJeudy/status/1564797242418102275

nba needs more variety or something. time to switch it up. we get tired of watching the SAME team every year

NFL is king… and its not even close

Nfl is still king. When a preseason game is doing better than other sports prime slots no question who is at the top of the mountain