The scores for the 2021 Super Bowl have finally come out, and they’re not fantastic.
CBS announced Tuesday morning that 96.4 million viewers watched the game on all of its platforms, “including the CBS television network, CBS Sports and NFL digital properties, Buccaneers and Chiefs mobile properties, Verizon Media mobile properties and ESPN Deportes digital and television properties “.
Tom Brady and the Buccaneers got a 31-9 victory over the Chiefs on Sunday with the final result, no doubt, for much of the second half.
CBS promoted the game as the most live in history, with 5.7 million viewers on digital platforms.
Although CBS did not announce the number of viewers who watched the match on CBS, it reported Sports Business Journal the total number was 91,629 million.
Concerns from the sports media industry grew when game scores were not released on Monday, which is very unusual.
“Super Bowl numbers are still being processed and verified,” Nielsen said in a statement Monday night. “We anticipate that the final display figures, which will include the away from home display (OOH), will be available to the media (Tuesday).”
Last season’s Super Bowl, a Chiefs win over the 49ers at Fox, had an average of 102.1 million viewers on all platforms.
Boston market fans were as interested in seeing Brady in the Super Bowl as ever. The rating in Boston was 57.6, according to Sports Business Journal, which is the second best Super Bowl ranking the market has produced. The only Super Bowl Tom Brady appeared in that mark that surpassed that mark was Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, when the Patriots beat the Seahawks by Brady’s fifth ring. Boston’s rating for this game was 61.
Boston’s 2021 Super Bowl score was higher than the Tampa market’s (52.3).
In Kansas City, where Chiefs fans were expecting a second straight championship, the rating was 59.9 with a high of 63.1, according to Sports Business Journal. Kansas City, Boston and Tampa were the top three markets.
Amid very different circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York’s rating rose slightly to 45.7, from 45.2 last year.