[jcranmer]

> Also for reference the last Superbowl was watched by 100M viewers.

Getting precise numbers for marquee sporting events is difficult, especially outside of the major US sports leagues, but the Super Bowl is on the shortlist for most-viewed single sporting event. Comparing only among US sports leagues, the Super Bowl has more viewers than the final game of the next several leagues combined--the next largest finals seems to have somewhere around 20M viewers.

By contrast, the smallest of the "big" US sports leagues can only manage around 5 million viewers for its final games.

[ilyt]

At this point I don't think it's really "sports" event, I wouldn't be surprised if many people turn in just for it while not being interested for the rest of the year