{"id":516265,"date":"2026-01-14T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:20:15","slug":"chargers-patriots-averages-28-9-million-on-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516265\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers-Patriots averages 28.9 million on Sunday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of factors determine the audience for a playoff game. Generally speaking, the more exciting the contest, the bigger the ratings will be.<\/p>\n<p>Of the five playoff games the NFL staged on Saturday and Sunday, the least competitive and compelling (by far) happened on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Still, 28.9 million tuned in for the 16-3 suffocation of the Chargers by the Patriots, on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a slight decline from last year\u2019s Commanders-Buccaneers game on Sunday night, which averaged 29 million. And, frankly, this year\u2019s number carries the benefit of the Nielsen Big Data + Panel bump.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, despite plenty of excellent, exciting, down-to-the-wire postseason games, some of the boxes on the Super Bowl Advent calendar still may have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Ht4Ei3pdR8?si=DLWHyWhKyCxQmdoZ&amp;t=47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a candy corn inside<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, all four games this weekend will be chocolate-covered caramels with a sprinkling of salt on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of factors determine the audience for a playoff game. Generally speaking, the more exciting the contest, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":516266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-516265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115895312257687434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}