The Cardinals beating the Seahawks destroyed game five of the World Series in the TV ratings Sunday night.
According to ShowBuzzDaily.com, “Sunday Night Football” peaked with an average of 13.766 million viewers on NBC as Kyler Murray and company earned a huge 37-34 win. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
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How did the World Series do as the Dodgers beat the Rays to take a 3-2 lead? The numbers weren’t even close. The World Series game peaked with an average of 8.579 million viewers on Fox.
To put it as simply as possible, the NFL crushed the MLB.
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What does it say about the MLB that a “Sunday Night Football” matchup in October absolutely shredded a major World Series game?
That’s not a great look for the MLB at all. People really seem to have checked out on baseball in 2020.
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It also just goes to show that football will forever be king in America. Even a regular season game dominates the World Series.
When people are forced to choose between football and any other sport, football will absolutely win more times than not.
That’s just a fact.
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Football is king in America, and these numbers are blunt reminder of that fact for anyone who might have forgotten.