GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – JANUARY 22: San Francisco 49ers’ Arik Armstead (91) celebrates after sacking Inexperienced Bay Packers beginning quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) within the fourth quarter for his or her NFC divisional playoff NFL sport at Lambeau Discipline in Inexperienced Bay, Wi., on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Space Information Group)
The 49ers have confirmed loads in these final two weeks within the playoffs.
However the factor that could be resonating with the NFL essentially the most? It’s good for the NFL’s backside line when the 49ers are within the playoffs.
It’s been back-to-back weeks of huge tv scores numbers popping out of the 49ers’ two video games, when every was in opposition to a longtime rival and went all the way down to the ultimate play.
This previous weekend’s face-off in frozen Inexperienced Bay had 36.9 million viewers on FOX, which FOX says is the most-watched Saturday present because the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. And, in response to SportsBusinessJournal, 67 p.c of tv viewers within the Bay Space have been tuned in to the sport.
It was a part of a score bonanza weekend for the NFL, which noticed all 4 video games crack 30 million viewers and the Buffalo-Kansas Metropolis sport usher in 42.7 million viewers — in addition to seeing 90 p.c of viewers within the Kansas Metropolis market tuned in to the sport within the insane fourth quarter.
The wild-card spherical win over the Cowboys noticed 41.5 million viewers tune in to CBS, per the SportsBusinessJournal, which was essentially the most for any wild-card sport in seven years. That sport peaked at 50.2 million viewers in its remaining hour, as individuals tuned in to observe the 49ers maintain off a determined Cowboys comeback try.
That sport led wild-card weekend in scores by a large margin, with the next-highest considered sport clocking in at greater than 10 million fewer viewers (Tampa Bay’s win over Philadelphia had 30.4 million). The mix of the 49ers-Cowboys sport and Sunday’s additional time Chiefs win have given CBS its highest scores in 10 years via the playoffs’ first two rounds.
The 49ers-Rams Week 18 matchup slot additionally rated the very best of any from that weekend, bringing in additional viewers (19.3 million) than all three of the standalone video games of that week (Chiefs-Broncos, Cowboys-Eagles and Chargers-Raiders), in response to ShowBuzzDaily. The stakes have been excessive because the 49ers had a playoff berth on the road.
Now, San Francisco and Los Angeles are set to play once more for the NFC Championship. Whereas we don’t know which crew will win and head to the Tremendous Bowl, it’s secure to imagine that the NFL will really feel like a winner when the scores come again after the sport.