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Football Is More Important Than Bill Clinton

by Dan Fogarty | 3:37 pm, September 6th, 2012

As expected, last night’s NFL opener between the Cowboys and Giants drew monster ratings on NBC. Also as expected, Bill Clinton made sweet, sweet love to the podium during the Democratic National Convention, as a confused and slightly aroused nation looked on.

So, what did more people watch: Dallas upsetting New York, or our 42nd President blacking out for 50 minutes?

The answer: football. Because football rules America, even when Bill Clinton is on CNN bee-boppin’ and scattin’ his way through a one night only return. Via Dylan Byers:

Roughly 21.8 million people watched the NFL season opener between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys on NBC last night, more than the entire audience for former President Bill Clinton’s convention speech across the five other broadcast and cable networks, according to early Nielsen fast nationals.

That 21.8 million edged out the combined 20 million watching Clinton on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, according to the Nielsen fast nationals.

Clinton? BEMUSED.

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Anonymous

Any number for the viewers of the PBS broadcast network? Where I live, north of Boston, it was on a Boston television station and a station transmitting from near Portsmouth, NH. I’m guessing that many people can receive more than one PBS station, either on cable or over-the-air.
Anonymous

An article on sports gird that doesn’t have a left wing bias?!!?!?!?!?!?
Seth Wright

nor are they including the millions of college students tuning into the DNC over Youtube and numerous other web channels…
Bacon

True, don’t forget all the non US sports fans doing the same thing for the NFL game :) They could care less about a Clinton speech.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002102242084 Opie Taylor Sr.

Which should tell you SportsGrid…STOP MENTIONING POLITICS ON YOUR WEBSITE! I don’t want talk about dumbass Paul Ryan and his marathon times and I don’t even want this post. DO NOT TALK ABOUT POLITICS ON YOUR SPORTS WEBSITES…EVER
Rick

I agree with the other posts. I am so annoyed by the last “political” posts by Sports Grid that even though this one doesn’t take a side like the past ones I am still annoyed. I love sports and truly dislike politicians and the last thing I want is politics invading my sports coverage.
Fishermen4romney

Its about time!!!! I dare say was FAIR and BALANCED unlike there usual trollop. “Welcome to the Real America” >;) football
Geoffrey Chambers

The prelim figures were off. As of today, the score is Clinton 1 – NFL 0.
Anonymous

Bush/Cheney inherited a record surplus and, with a republican Congress willing to effectuate their policies, they left office with a record deficit. By deregulating Wall Street (see, credit default swaps) the entire banking industry teetered on collapse and required massive bailouts. We invaded Iraq over what? A phony nuclear threat. Conspicuously, none of the alleged benefits of invading Iraq proved to be true. Worse still, the republicans offered tax benefits to outsource industrial jobs overseas. That is a fair and balanced statement of facts. What, Romney/Ryan is going to be different? Trickle down economics is a big lie that benefits the 1%. By analogy, if you don’t charge people regular prices, restaurants take in less revenue. Duh.

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