Monday night’s Buccaneers-Lions game drew a huge audience on ESPN.
The late game between the Texans and Seahawks? Not so much.
In fact, ESPN’s press release trumpeting Monday night’s ratings don’t even say how many people watched Texans-Seahawks.
The ESPN press release says that Buccaneers-Lions generated an audience of 18.8 million viewers. That’s the most-watched Week Seven Monday night game for ESPN ever, and a 19 percent increase over last year’s Week Seven Monday night game.
But the ESPN press release doesn’t even say how many people watched Texans-Seahawks, which is something that only happens when the number is nothing to speak of. ESPN announced only that accounting for both games, Monday Night Football averaged 12.7 million viewers for the doubleheader.
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