In the event you ever doubted the Dallas Cowboys’ drawing energy, the TV viewership from their newest recreation ought to put that to relaxation.
Dallas’ Thanksgiving Day recreation towards the Kansas City Chiefs — a 31-28 Cowboys win — drew a report 57.23 million viewers on CBS, the community introduced Wednesday.
The earlier report for most-watched regular-season recreation was 42.1 million from a Thanksgiving matchup in 2022 between the Cowboys and New York Giants.
This year’s viewership smashed that record by 36 percent, CBS Sports said.
Of course, the reigning AFC champion Chiefs are a significant TV draw, too, but Kansas City is nowhere near as popular as the Cowboys.
(For comparison, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox’s early Thanksgiving afternoon broadcast of Inexperienced Bay’s win over Detroit averaged 47.7 million viewers, making it the community’s largest regular-season recreation of all time.)
Cowboys have likelihood to get one other excessive viewership quantity
This begs a query: What’s going to viewership be for Dallas’ recreation at Detroit on “Thursday Evening Soccer?” Whereas it is not anticipated to be in the identical ballpark as Thanksgiving Day TV numbers, the sport ought to get an enormous score, too.
The Cowboys, who’ve received three straight video games, are among the many hottest groups within the NFL and are preventing for a playoff spot. Dallas is powered by a dynamic passing recreation led by quarterback Dak Prescott (3,261 yards passing, No. 2 within the NFL) and wideouts George Pickens (1,142 yards receiving, eight TD catches) and CeeDee Lamb (744 yards, three TD catches).
Dallas (6-5-1) trails NFC East–main Philadelphia (8-4), which has dropped two straight. Detroit (7-5) can also be preventing for its postseason life, sitting behind Inexperienced Bay (8-3-1) and the first-place Bears (9-3) — all of which makes Thursday evening’s matchup (8:15 ET, Prime Video) must-see TV.
