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The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set just this year (2024) — 123.7 million for Chiefs-49ers. While Chiefs-49ers owns the largest official Super Bowl audience on record, that is only because Nielsen did not begin including out-of-home viewing in its viewership estimates until [5] [6] In fact, the Super Bowl is the American sports broadcast with the most consistent ratings, [7] and draws substantially higher ratings than other sports events, including the NBA Finals and World Series. [8] Ratings for the Super Bowl first peaked from 1977 to 1987, when no less than 44.4% of American households with television sets The highest-rated Super Bowl dates back to 1982 when the San Francisco 49ers took on the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI. It remains the only Super Bowl to cross the 49.0 ratings threshold. The average viewership number for this Super Bowl was 115,096,000. The air date for Super Bowl LVII was on February 12, 2023. 1. Super Bowl LVIII: Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers. Super Bowl LVIII was aired on CBS. In the most watched Super Bowl, the Chiefs defeated the 49ers 25-22 in overtime. Earlier Super Bowls did better when it comes to TV ratings, with the highest-rated Super Bowl being a 49.1 in 1982 between the 49ers and Bengals. Of the five highest-rated Super Bowls ever, four Super Bowl television ratings and shares, including network (both NBC and CBS televised the first Super Bowl). The rating represents the percentage of televisions tuned in to a program. The share is the percentage of televisions on at the time that watched: That included 95.2 million for the 2021 Super Bowl between Tampa Bay and Kansas City, which was the game’s lowest TV-only average since 2007. Univision averaged 2.3 million viewers, the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish-language network. The Super Bowl has been televised in Spanish in the United States since 2014. That game remains the most-watched Super Bowl in history, but Super Bowl LVIII came close with 123.7 million viewers. Ratings History of the Super Bowl Jan. 15, 1967. There's a new Super Bowl TV ratings record, as an average of 120.3 million viewers tuned in on CBS to watch the Chiefs beat the 49ers. The audience for Super Bowl LVIII was so large that it approached the all-time most watched television broadcast in the United States set in 1969, when an estimated 125 to 150 million viewers 4 players are tied for the best passer rating in a Super Bowl, with a 158.3 rating. The first three are Jauan Jennings on February 11, Antwaan Randle El on February 5, 2006 and Lawrence McCutcheon on January 20, 1980. The best Super Bowl performance by a quarterback we have ever seen belongs to Rodgers in his one and only appearance — and it’s not even close. Rodgers had a 94.2 passing grade in his Super Bowl 45 victory over Pittsburgh and gathered up nine big-time throws while going without a single turnover-worthy play. Result: Tampa Bay 31, Kansas City 9 Tom Brady’s first year in Tampa Bay ended with the QB winning his seventh Super Bowl. The showdown could have been epic. The game’s greatest QB of all-time (Brady) squaring off against the reigning Super Bowl champs and its MVP QB — Patrick Mahomes. Rank the top Super Bowl commercials with Ad Meter 2025. Join the fun, cast your votes, and see which ads score big this year! 4 players are tied for the best career passer rating in Super Bowls, with a 158.3 rating. The first three are Jauan Jennings, Antwaan Randle El and Lawrence McCutcheon. The skinny: Although Super Bowl XIII wasn’t as close as the final score might indicate, Pittsburgh and Dallas provided plenty of fireworks to keep observers entertained. There were nine touchdowns, and the 66 total points scored established a Super Bowl record that would stand for 14 years. Mahomes' performance on Sunday night was one of the best in Super Bowl history. His 125.8 passer rating for the game was over 70 points higher than Patrick Mahomes, who threw three A Super Bowl full of iconic moments, the Arizona Cardinals pulled off a nearly impossible comeback and took the lead late in the fourth quarter, nearly winning the game with under two minutes to go with one of the best touchdown receptions the Super Bowl had ever seen, a 64-yard catch-and-run from Larry Fitzgerald. Super Bowl III: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7. Passer rating: 9.3. Passing stats: 6-for-17, 71 yards, 0 TD/3 INT. In the first game to be officially dubbed “Super Bowl” — the first two iterations were known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game and retroactively renamed — Morrall and the Colts went down to Joe Namath and the Jets in one of the biggest upsets in NFL history. · The offensive turnovers statistic has also been quite misleading in terms of Super Bowl handicapping, with teams owning an edge in this stat going just 7-14 ATS (33.3%) in the Super Bowl since 2003.
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