Will the MNF game be the highest rated Monday night game ever?..............

treece · 10-05-09, 12:41 AM

Yes

Nicky Santoro · 10-05-09, 12:42 AM

Originally posted by treece

Yes

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pat venditto · 10-05-09, 12:44 AM

BadNina · 10-05-09, 12:46 AM

oh yeah

InTheHole · 10-05-09, 01:56 AM

SR · 10-05-09, 01:56 AM

lol not a chance, this prob wont be top 5

20Four7 · 10-05-09, 01:58 AM

What is the highest rated MNF ever? I would think this ends up being close if it doesn't beat it but hard to guess without knowing who the current leader is.

mtneer1212 · 10-05-09, 01:59 AM

Nope. Won't be close. If it were on ABC, maybe........ but not on ESPN. Still a lot of people out there who don't have cable/dish. Now if Howard Cosell would come back to call the game........ maybe.......

InTheHole · 10-05-09, 02:01 AM

Originally posted by 20Four7

What is the highest rated MNF ever? I would think this ends up being close if it doesn't beat it but hard to guess without knowing who the current leader is.

The highest-rated Monday Night Football telecast on ABC was the Miami Dolphins' victory over the previously-undefeated Chicago Bears on December 2, 1985, which drew a Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a share of 46. ABC's lowest-rated MNF game was the St. Louis Rams' defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 18, 2004, which drew a 7.7 rating.
The highest-rated MNF game on ESPN, and the highest-rated program in U.S. cable television history to date, was the Dallas Cowboys' defeat of the Philadelphia Eagles on September 15, 2008, with a rating of 13.3. ESPN's lowest-rated MNF game to date was the New York Giants' defeat of the Atlanta Falcons on October 15, 2007, which drew a 5.7 rating.
ESPN's third season of Monday Night Football was the most-watched series on cable television in 2008. It set an all-time cable viewership record for the third straight year and drew the year's three biggest cable household audiences and 13 of the top 15. In three seasons on ESPN, Monday Night Football has registered seven of the top 10 all-time biggest household audiences in cable history, led by the Eagles-Cowboys telecast on 9/15/08, which attracted cable's largest household audience ever (an average of 12,953,000 million homes).
ESPN's 17 MNF telecasts in 2008 averaged a 8.9 rating, representing an average of 8,679,000 households (11,962,000 viewers), increases of 3%, 5% and 7%, respectively, vs. 2007 (8.6; 8,277,000 and 11,230,000). [3]

20Four7 · 10-05-09, 02:39 AM

Thanks ITH, after reading that it may set a record for ESPN monday night football but not EVER.

Thanks.

Iwinyourmoney · 10-05-09, 03:28 AM

It will break the espn record

Slim · 10-05-09, 03:43 AM

I'm gonna put every tv in my house(4) on ESPN tonight to help it become the highest rated ever.

jjgold · 10-05-09, 05:09 AM

I like Green bay here

Minny is not a great team and lucked out last week.

Pack easy

zubzub · 10-05-09, 05:24 AM

better.

BestPlay2day · 10-05-09, 06:20 AM

It will be the highest rated cable game/show but not being on network tv will keep a lot of fans from watching the game. Still a ton of people don't have cable or ESPN, but highest rated ESPN NFL game for sure.

Hotdiggity11 · 10-05-09, 06:22 AM

It will be up there at least.

onthewhat · 10-05-09, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by Slim

I'm gonna put every tv in my house(4) on ESPN tonight to help it become the highest rated ever.

You have a Nielson box?

Chi_archie · 10-05-09, 06:30 AM

do none cable owning customers get cable boxes? do they give boxes to two types of households? the cable owning and basic cable owning customers? or is it all just random?

lakerboy · 10-05-09, 08:29 AM

Originally posted by jjgold

I like Green bay here

Minny is not a great team and lucked out last week.

Pack easy

MJFtheGenius · 10-05-09, 08:30 AM

not a chance

too manny ****ing channels and different pgramming on TV these days

and it's on cable TV not even network

no ****ing chance

rm18 · 10-05-09, 08:37 AM

There is another factor helping this game. No MLB, no NBA, no WNBA. This is a very rare Monday night game where there is nothing else on not even in local markets.

27 rating out of the question, TV viewing in general is down nowadays, or at least diluted through the networks, but still can probably set the cable record in this spot.