NFL Wild Card weekend mostly down in viewership year-over-year
The league's audiences were still massive compared to any other sport.
The league's audiences were still massive compared to any other sport.
Whether or not we as fans are rewarded with exciting games during the postseason is purely a matter of luck.
The last NFL Wild Card Playoff Game of the 2024-25 season pits the Minnesota Vikings against the Los Angeles Rams in Glendale, AZ. It airs on multiple channels including ESPN2 for the ManningCast.
We have three NFL Wild Card games today with CBS starting us off in Buffalo, then Fox airs live in Philadelphia, then NBC finishes off the tripleheader in Tampa.
"Us playing on peacock ONLY is insane I won't lie."
"Read some comments that we didn’t sound excited enough. Internet compost!"
We have a NFL Wild Card tripleheader with CBS, Fox and NBC all carrying games from 1 p.m. ET through primewtime.
We have two NFL Wild Card Playoff games, Seattle at San Francisco on Fox and the Los Angeles Chargers at Jacksonville on NBC.
The change might make it possible for Monday's winner to play on very short rest by Saturday.
Bring back the slime cannons! The kids-themed Bears-Saints telecast drew more than two million viewers for Nickelodeon.
"Um, hey Shawn, what do we need to know from this 800-page packet?"
Football doesn't always have to be super-serious.
Patterson probably should've been slimed for that one.
CBS is reaching out to the kids with its NFL playoffs telecast on Nickelodeon.
CBS and NBC would both air two games on Wild Card Weekend, leaving ESPN and Fox with one game.
Wild-card games drew from 26.4 million to 35.8 million viewers in 2019-20, so there could be a lot of TV benefits from this plan.