People can't get enough live football, even when it's not football that counts.

The Jets Browns preseason game at the Pro Football Hall of Fame averaged 6.3 million viewers

on NBC, most watched Pro Football Hall of Fame games since 2018, and more than the 2023 NBA

playoffs, poor basketball.

More than the 2023 Stanley Cup Final, which doesn't surprise me, 2022 field of dreamed

game, which created all sorts of critical claim, but not the eyeballs that would match a game

from Canton, with maybe 20,000 people in the stands, and a bunch of guys playing that

aren't stars, still averaged 6.3 million viewers for the full three hours.

That's just not peak audience.

That's 6.3 million viewers, on average, per minute for the entirety of the three hours

of the Hall of Fame game.

It really is amazing, and it underscores that we can't get enough football and that nothing

delivers a live audience and gathers humans to watch the same thing at the same time.

In this day and age, with all the dissent or mediation as the experts in the TV business

call it, with all the different choices and all the different things you can watch, whenever

you want, however you want, wherever you want, we gather together to watch Pro Football,

even when the pro football game is as meaningless as it can be, Chris.

No, it's just, it's, it's that big in our culture right now, and it doesn't even matter

that it's okay not proven commodities.

We've seen guys like Dorian Thompson Robinson, you know, in our living room for the last

three or four years, and hey, let's see what he looks like when he's quarter back in

the Browns.

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