The Dallas Cowboys’ escape with a 20-19 victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday on a special weekend edition of ESPN‘s Monday Night Football drew 25.7 million viewers, the network said Monday citing Nielsen fast nationals.
The Cowboys’ home victory in a battle of two postseason-bound NFL teams joined previous 2023 MNF games Eagles-Chiefs on November 22 and Ravens-49ers on Christmas Day as the three most-watched MNF games since 1997.
The 2023 Monday Night Football season is now officially the most-watched MNF season of the ESPN era, which began in 2006. The 20 games in 2023 averaged 17.1 million viewers, up 33% year-over-year.
The Cowboys-Lions game went down to the wire, with Detroit ultimately unable to score on a 2-point conversion late in the fourth quarter that would have given it the lead.
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