MIAMI, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 02: The NLF 100 All-Time Team are honored on the field prior to Super Bowl LIV between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)The television ratings for Super Bowl 56 are out and they are way up compared to last year’s game.
The Kanas City Chiefs fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-9 in that contest which saw 91.6M people tune in on TV only. This year’s Rams-Bengals Super Bowl had close to 100M people tune in.
Rams/Bengals Super Bowl (TV only): 99.2M up from last year's TV-only number of 91.6M.
— Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) February 15, 2022
This makes sense for multiple reasons. For one, Tom Brady wasn’t playing in this game as some casual fans are likely tired of seeing him in there.
Second, this game was between two teams that haven’t made the Super Bowl that often. This was the first time that the Bengals have played for a championship since 1988.
F0r the Rams, it was only the second time since 2002 that they had played in this game.
NFL fans aren’t surprised by these ratings since the league always draws the most viewership out of any sport.
😳😳😳Add in digital streaming and that’s probably around 110-115 million I’d guess. https://t.co/LZwX1k9EDq
— Tyler Wiederhoeft (@TDWiederhoeft) February 15, 2022
— Gary Hammond (@HammBone05) February 15, 2022
But i saw talk about the nba finals being better 😂😂 https://t.co/HkbMoVPSoh
— Big Magnificent (@geechnificent) February 15, 2022
If you move the game to Saturday, you lose 25% of that. https://t.co/e7qjDLWMUP
— Randy Slack (@rslack37) February 15, 2022
Well that's weird. I thought the ratings were going to be awful and that nobody wanted to see the Bengals play in the Super Bowl 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/FWyt0yBoY1
— King of Undisputed Nonsense (@ATNWAT) February 15, 2022
People want to watch the Bengals 🙂 https://t.co/oM9YYHuROK
— Lindsay Patterson (@LndsPatterson) February 15, 2022
So it’ll be over 100M once when streaming is added.
— ky (@kycoloneI) February 15, 2022
The game went down to the final seconds as the Rams stopped the Bengals on fourth-and-one to win, 23-20. It was their first championship in two decades, while the Bengals are still searching for their first one.
