‘Sunday Night Football’ Season Opener Viewership Slips To Multi-Year Low; CBS Tops NFL Games With Cleveland V. KC Afternoon Match-Up

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As we discover far too often, history loves to repeat itself – in the NFL and otherwise.That was sadly the case for Sunday Night Football’s season kickoff between the hometown advantage Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Bears on NBC on September 12.Sure, even with the Covid-19 Delta variant seemingly everywhere, there were actual fans in the seats in SoFi Stadium this year, unlike the September 13 game of 2020.

However, once again, the match-up was played in the City of Angeles once again the Rams were the winner (34- 14), and once again, the Comcast-net took a viewership drubbing.With the final numbers now in, the primetime NFL battle drew an audience of 17.6 million on NBC, according to Nielsen.