Colts will get more national games

[chrisfarley]

I think we'll get tons of national games in the coming years.  I realize it was Manning's return but Luck and Co. have something to do with that too.

 

The result wasn’t happy for Denver fans, but last night’s Denver-Indianapolis NBC Sunday Night Football game featuring Peyton Manning’s return to Indianapolis posted a 17.3 overnight rating and 29 share (8:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m. ET) –- the best primetime overnight for an October game in 15 years. It also set a “SNF” local market record as Denver was the No. 1 market with a 49.6 rating and 71 share, meaning 71 percent of the sets in use were tuned to Peyton & Co.

The game drew the biggest TV crowd since the Academy Awards. Even bigger than zombies. In the Adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers covet, Sunday Night Football won the night with a 10.0 rating. But get this: the second-ranked show in the demo was AMC’s “The Walking Dead” with a 6.1 rating.

NBC’s Sunday primetime average (13.5/22 from 7-11 p.m. ET in metered-market households) is the highest for any broadcast network on a Sunday night since the Academy Awards on Feb. 24 (22.2/34 on ABC).

NBC Sports says the previous best October primetime NFL overnight was a 17.5 for Minnesota-Green Bay on ABC on Oct. 5, 1998.

[shakedownstreet]

well to be fair a lot of record setting market shares include  :manning:

[Danfish98]

That record setting ratings number had about .001% to do with the Colts and about 99.999% to do with Peyton.  We'll get more national games in the coming years because the team is going to be extremely successful but to think this ratings were because of the Colts is craziness.

[BOTT]

I honestly prefer the 1pm start time

[shakedownstreet]

I honestly prefer the 1pm start time

 

what avatar can you come up with for the dreaded bye week?