Brett Favre=Ratings

[BobHarvey]

BRISTOL, Conn. – Brett Favre's matchup with his former team has attracted the largest cable television audience ever.

His Minnesota Vikings' 30-23 win over the Green Bay Packers on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" was watched by more than 21.8 million people. The previous record was more than 18.6 million viewers for last year's Monday night game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys.

ESPN also said Tuesday that the game drew the highest rating in the network's 30-year history. The 15.3 rating beat the 14.4 for a Bears-Vikings game on Dec. 6, 1987, during ESPN's first season of televising NFL games.

[jjgold]

[Willie Bee]

Will be interesting to see the numbers for the rematch in Green Bay in a few weeks. Won't be the prime time, MNF affair but should still be an ad revenue boon for FOX on Nov 1.

[JamesGenius]

more like a lot of people were burred from the weekend so had to watch and see the end result

[pavyracer]

This is another reason to quit watching NFL. Basically the NFL is saying we will do anything to make a profit and if this means to screw the integrity of the game by instructing the refs to call the game in a certain way then so be it.