It looked a little tense for a while, but then the Tennessee Titans kicked into gear and left the Dallas Cowboys in the dust with a 28-14 victory on Monday Night Football, on the eve of the most anticipated midterm election in recent history.
Led by quarterback Marcus Mariota, the visiting Titans broke their recent losing streak and helped get them back in contention in the AFC South. And then there was this cherry on top when it was all over:
This is awesome. 🙌 #TitanUp pic.twitter.com/u3GVLYG11J
— NFL (@NFL) November 6, 2018
They didn’t get a ball directly from the winning QB, but with America perhaps needing to get its collective head out of politics for a little bit, the NFL and ESPN are likely pretty happy with the way things turned out Monday night too. Topping all of Monday’s primetime on both cable and broadcast, last night’s MNF scored an 8.3 metered market result, according to Nielsen. That’s a rare double win for the league and the Disney-owned sports cabler.
For one thing, last night’s MNF is up 5% in the first round of ratings over last week’s game, when the New England Patriots beat the Buffalo Bills 25-6. Then there’s the fact that last night’s MNF, which peaked with a 9.1 in the 9-9:30 PM ET slot, topped last year’s comparable Green Bay-Detroit game of November 6, 2017 by almost 10% in the metered markets.
That game, won by the Lions, went on to draw 11.09 million viewers with a 3.8 rating among adults 18-49. Providing a good indication where things might settle for last night’s game, last week’s MNF ended up with an audience of 10.8 million and a 3.5 rating.
Now, get out on the democracy field and vote today.
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