Super Bowl 46 TV Ratings: 47.8 Overnight, Down Very Slightly From Packers/Steelers in 2011 [UPDATE]
All, NFL, Super Bowl, Television February 6th. 2012, 11:04am
Giants 21, Patriots 17 generated an overnight rating of 47.8 for NBC, which is down very slightly from last year’s 47.9 when the game was on FOX. It’s the third highest overnight in Super Bowl history, behind last year’s game and the 1987 Super Bowl between the Giants and Broncos.
The final numbers will be released in the afternoon.
[UPDATE: The number of viewers for the game: 111.3 million, which makes it the most-watched program in TV history. Last year's Packers/Steelers game was viewed by 111 million people.]
According to NBC, the Boston market was tops (56.7) and the New York market was 18th (49.7). [via USA Today, TV by Numbers]
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February 6th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
So does this mean the game was good or bad?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Ratings are down?! NFL is screwed.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Fire Goodell, right?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Hilarious that the picture of a super bowl winning TD looks like some guy taking a dump on the goal line.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I like how after the talk about if and when Favre will get into broadcasting Rodgers might be better at that too…in the bits I saw of the pregame show he seemed comfortable in the role
February 6th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
I like how after the talk about if and when Favre will get into broadcasting Rodgers might be better at that too…in the bits I saw of the pregame show he seemed comfortable in the role
I’d go gay for Rodgers. No lie.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Handsome and no annoying Mississippi accent.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Pictured: Ahmad Bradshaw demonstrates what I would like to do with this post.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Outside the Lines yesterday about concussions and the NFL’s stance on them was pretty gross…hadn’t seen the video of him getting talked down to be the Congressman not interested in his bullshit, that was fun
February 6th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I’m happy to say that I saw zero of the pregame.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
The NFL “Evolution” commercial about safety was probably the most disingenuous piece of shit I have ever seen.
The NFL will never really care about safety, not even when someone as big as Manning or Brady is dead by fifty from brain damage.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Neither did I, but I’m actually kinda bummed I missed out on Randy Moss, TV announcer
February 6th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I enjoyed the puppy bowl and kitten halftime show. There was one especially adorable kitten that was doing flips while playing with a toy.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I really liked how he had the guts to say that the Giants might try to slow the Patriots down by faking injuries like they did to the Packers.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
where was this?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
More Thursday night games next year so every team get’s the chance to have a 3 day rest week. Safety first!
February 6th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
That bitch of a sideline reporter almost ruined it for me.
And the bird and pigs? This must have been what racists felt like when baseball got integrated.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
So, dumb question – how many millions of viewers does this translate to?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
This obviously means that we need a Jets/Giants Super Bowl next year.
/random TV executive
February 6th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I dont like Goodell but WTF was he supposed to do? He just walked into the job shortly before he was to testify. Maybe they should have interviewed Tagliabu instead. Or fucking no one. I hate grandstanding politicians
February 6th, 2012 at 11:20 AM
He’s talking about the bald white dude on the NFL Network
February 6th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
If there were going to be jokes made about taking dumps and involving the Giants, I would swear Osi Umenyiora’s name would have come up.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Madonna halftime show apparently drew a 48.3
February 6th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
It’s more important that the Browns get to play in primetime, obviously.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Agreed. Her and the ref with his lame puns and jokes were awful. If they want to change the format, they should mandate that the only animals involved can be baby animals. If they want pigs, they have to be piglets.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:22 AM
It was a new ref from years past, right? The previous guy was much better.
And yeah, piglets would have been cute.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
“Do concussions lead to long term health problems?”
“Yes”
Instead he starts into some long-winded non-answer that led the Congressman to just sigh and say “We know, we’ve heard this already”, I laughed
February 6th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
OMG RATINGS!! RATINGS ARE TOTS MY BFF!!!!
\TheBigLead’d
February 6th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
It doesnt make sense that Pittsburgh and Green bay have higher ratings than New York and boston.
/TBL’ed
February 6th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Yes, I believe it was a new ref. He was much less schtick-y.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
The previous ref, I mean.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
New York does not move the needle
February 6th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Haha nice. They really didnt seem to utilize the no huddle as much as I thought they would to where this wouldve become an issue. And the times they did, the Giants players were actually getting injured. No lie, I did feel sorta bad when Ballard was on the sidelines trying to run and cut and fell down in pain.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:27 AM
They really didnt seem to utilize the no huddle as much as I thought they would to where this wouldve become an issue.
I think I read where they only used it on 3 drives (10 plays) and on two of those drives they scored TD’s.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
thank god the ratings were this high…im not sure id be able to function without my viewing selections being validated by other people liking them too.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
i was clapping because you know how i feel about ohio state.
/tbl’d
February 6th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
No lie, I did feel sorta bad when Ballard was on the sidelines trying to run and cut and fell down in pain.
If Jay Cutler only would have done this…
February 6th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Que? I was under the impression that only soccer faggots feign injuries.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Orange Bowl – 5.3 rating
Sugar Bowl – 7.0 rating
Fiesta Bowl – 9.7 rating
Rose Bowl – 11.8 rating
Championship – 14.0 rating
TOTAL – 47.8
Super Bowl – 47.8
That’s how it works, right?
Long live the BCS.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
soccer queers feign injuries by flopping
February 6th, 2012 at 11:32 AM
OT (who cares, it’s ratings?)…
golf guys, what yall think of these wedges? copper face would be pretty great once it rusts…and really can’t beat that price for a wedge with sole grind.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Apparently NBC had him doing updates for NBC from the Patriots hotel.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Wow, that is a good price. Adams wedges any good?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Can you guys imagine any scenario where football isn’t the most popular sport in this country? At the turn of last century horse racing, boxing, and baseball were three most popular sports and two of them fell off and the other isn’t as popular as they were 30 years ago.
But I just cant imagine the NFL ever losing its luster. It’d be weird if 50 years from now super bowl is getting a 5 rating or some low figure like that.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
It was probably the white Randy Moss who works for NBC Sports
February 6th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
They look too thick for me. I have a gun metal wedge that I like. Bet the copper would be similar over time. The price is right though.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
no idea…never hit one.
that’s what im thinking…worse comes to worse, it’s a practice wedge.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Now we are arguing over semantics. Its still cheating and has no place in sports. I hate it in soccer just as I hate it in other sports. Problem is that lot of people act like their sports shit don’t smell.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
golf guys, what yall think of these wedges?
My cleveland oil drench finish sand wedges has lost some of it’s finish and I don’t even use it that much. In terms of look I dont like that at all. The Watson wedges had a satin finish I liked more but that’s me.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
golf’s shit smells like money.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Der….for me, the only way NFL loses it’s lustre is by the players striking or being locked out over money. If the the common fan misses games because the rich want to be richer it would do the same thing it did to baseball.
I haven’t given a crap about hockey since 94 and I used to be glued to games every night.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
oops.. 04 I am getting mixed up with baseball
February 6th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
i have oil can vokey’s right now and LOVE how they look now that they’re trashed. guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
If something like Running Man, Battle Royale, or any other books and movies that Hunger Games ripped off and white girls are too fucking stupid to realize it’s a stolen plot become real, yes, yes I can.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Just like baseball and hockey players.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
good price, seems all right to me.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
yea…if there’s a massive war and NFL players don’t enlist en masse. like in WWII if all the NFL players were exempt from a draft…how the fuck could you watch then?
/that’s all i can think of
February 6th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
I can see a scenario that forces the NFL to drastically change its rules for player safety and the game is different from what we like.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Basketball, not baseball. Oops.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
As soon as all our best athletes (black guys) start playing soccer, the shit’s over.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I’d probably watch Death Race over the Super Bowl. But only if David Carradine and Sly were in it.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
And obviously, I mean a real race where they get points to run people over, and not the movie.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Oh God yes.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
gotta have the stath. oi!
February 6th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
I would watch convicts and child molesters fight to the death. Each episode the audiences chooses the weapons and location
February 6th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Well naturally.
+1 headfake on old-folks day at the hospital
February 6th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Only if the “weapons” were live alligators.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
soccer queers feign injuries by flopping
So do NFL players.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
that made my day!
February 6th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
you know, this made me think of all the parallels between the fall of rome and the current state of ‘murrica.
then i thought about how awesome it’d be to see gladiators and tigers maul christian evangelicals and decided to support this movement.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
February 6th, 2012 at 11:52 AM
71 sounds like george carlin or bill hicks…which one?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
If something like Running Man,
SUB ZERO — NOW, PLAIN ZERO!
February 6th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Is that George Carlin
February 6th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I was going to say Dennis Leary, which means its either Carlin or Hicks.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
A gun is not a weapon, Marge, it’s a tool. Like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or… or an alligator.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Carlin.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I was going to say Dennis Leary, which means its either Carlin or Hicks.
So true….fuckin’ Dennis Leary.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I’d go gay for Rodgers. No lie.
/looks uncomfortably toward the door…
He looked like someone punched him in the nose and gave him two black eyes.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
watched a bill hicks from montreal in 1991 this weekend…so fucking funny.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
you heard about this judas priest trial? couple kids, big fans of judas priest, commit suicide. wow…two less gas station attendants in the world.
hahahahahahahaha
February 6th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
more hicks.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I actually rarely found Bill Hicks funny. The guy himself was funny, but way too often his act just involved yelling at the audience and telling everyone how stupid they were.
Basically Bill Maher.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
it was the delivery that got me…i just fucking loved it. as someone who gets laughed at when they get pissed off, i totally get hicks’ humor.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
didn’t mean to say “humor”…typed too fast for brain to keep up. get where he’s coming from (meant to say).
February 6th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
I’m still stunned.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
I got his humor, and I agreed with almost everything he said. But I just never liked the “I’m going to lecture everyone” style of comedy. Plus with his crowds, it was basically pandering the same way Dane Cook panders, just with a different target.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
I actually rarely found Bill Hicks funny. The guy himself was funny, but way too often his act just involved yelling at the audience and telling everyone how stupid they were.
Basically Bill Maher.
I can understand this to an extent, but a lot of Hicks’ angriest moments–the Free Bird “Hitler had the right idea” rant from 1989 aside–came later in his career when he knew he was sick and dying. He had a lot of bitterness.
And Hicks’ anger came from people not thinking for themselves mostly. Bill Maher is just a stuck up asshole who never thinks anyone with an opposing viewpoint is right. Maher is a douchenozzle extraordinaire.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Yes, with the changing makeup of this country and it being a world wide sport, I can see basketball becoming that sport
February 6th, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Also known as the Lewis Black “i get more applause than laughs” style of comedy.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
understandable…
personally, my favorite type of comedy is “sledgehammer and watermelon comedy.”
February 6th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
WRONG.
/SNL mclaughlin group’d
February 6th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Bill Maher is just a stuck up asshole who never thinks anyone with an opposing viewpoint is right. Maher is a douchenozzle extraordinaire.
Nods.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
WRONG.
/SNL mclaughlin group’d
Ha, well played. It’s nice to remember when Dana Carvey was funny and relevant.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:15 PM
WRONG.
/SNL mclaughlin group’d
God I miss Phil Hartman.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Gallagher actually sold his act, briefly, to his brother, who toured as “Gallagher II.”
February 6th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Bill Maher panders like nobody else. His show format is as follows.
1) David Frum or somebody smart makes a really intelligent point.
2) Audience doesn’t react.
3) Celebrity panelist who is visibly fucked up makes some nonsensical quip.
4) Audience erupts.
5) Third panelist, likely a journalist, tries to make a sound point.
6) Maher interrupts, goes on some mini tangent about how evil republicans are when in reality he and Anne Coulter are close friends and just milking the opposite sides of the idiot pool, tilts his head, smirks into the camera.
7) Audience goes apeshit.
The man is a fraud.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Favorite stand up comedians of all time, go.
My list would be:
1. George Carlin
2. Richard Pryor
3. Eddie Murphy
4. Bill Hicks
5. Louis C.K.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
February 6th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Black Gallagher bitch!
February 6th, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Moleman, did you ever see Christopher Hitchens go at it with Bill Maher? I don’t even recall what the debate was but, just as you outlined above, Hitchens was making a point, Maher interrupted him with a snide comment, the audience erupted with applause and laughter, and Hitchens responded by insulting Maher to his face and giving the finger to the audience.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Favorite stand up comedians of all time, go.
My list would be:
1. George Carlin
2. Richard Pryor
3. Eddie Murphy
4. Bill Hicks
5. Louis C.K.
I’d flip 4 and 5, but otherwise that list is ok.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Mitch Hedberg.
He would be in my top 10 for sure. The thing with Mitch is that I’m not sure how well is act would have lasted over time. Observational one-liners are very hit and miss. Stephen Wright made a career out of it, but how much have you heard from him lately?
February 6th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Btw the irony of Louis C.K.’s career is astounding. Turns out Dane Cook stealing jokes from him was the best thing that ever happened to him.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
the impressionists on 90′s SNL was just out of control…mike myers, carvey, hartman. all of them legends.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Moleman, did you ever see Christopher Hitchens go at it with Bill Maher? I don’t even recall what the debate was but, just as you outlined above, Hitchens was making a point, Maher interrupted him with a snide comment, the audience erupted with applause and laughter, and Hitchens responded by insulting Maher to his face and giving the finger to the audience.
That was pretty epic.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
too many to list, but i saw aziz ansari’s this weekend and it was out of control funny. the shit about his cousin harris made me piss myself.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I wasn’t a fan of his before his special last month, but Tom Papa was hysterical.
I also like Kevin Hart, but his last special was a let down.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
hitchens was just as big of an asshole as maher…smart dude, but a total prick. i couldnt stand reading his shit.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Hitchen was an asshole for sure, but he didn’t pander to anyone. And he was a genius. Maher uses his smugness to hide the fact that he’s not as smart as he likes to think he is.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
fair enough…different assholes produce different types of shit.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Ew really? The commercial for this special was god awful. And he made me want to kill myself the few times i watched Marriage Ref.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Yeah Hitchens was great in that. Another episode was him, Salmon Rushdie, and Mos Def.
Shockingly, the audience sided with Mos Def. Who I love, but made not one single legitimate point.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Are there any Dane cook fan here? If so, what is the appeal? Not trying to be an ass. I really want to know.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Ew really? The commercial for this special was god awful. And he made me want to kill myself the few times i watched Marriage Ref.
I really wasn’t that into him either, but my lady wanted to watch it. And it was surprisingly good. She DVR’d it and watched it again last week, and it held up pretty well.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Are there any Dane cook fan here? If so, what is the appeal? Not trying to be an ass. I really want to know.
I like his cut off shirts.
/coop’d
February 6th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Re: Hedberg.
I made the banana bread, cottage cheese, pastrami sandiwhich once. Incredible.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Re: Hedberg.
I made the banana bread, cottage cheese, pastrami sandiwhich once. Incredible.
That is fantastic. I gave a Sun Chip to a duck once.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:36 PM
this is pretty fucking great.