Viking vs. Saints NFL Kickoff sets record
 

The Vikings vs. Saints game delivered the highest-rated NFL regular season overnights in 13 years -- a 17.7 household rating, the biggest since a Broncos vs. 49ers game in 1997. It's also the best-ever rating for an NBC regular season football game. The game's audience was also 28% larger than last year's Opening Kickoff.

In the nationals, the game drew 27.5 million viewers and a 10.7 rating -- "American Idol" levels.

UPDATE: "The Vikings vs. Saints game was the most-watched NFL regular season game on any network in 14 years."

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WHO DATS got the MOJO!

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I believe it. Seemed like another Mega-Superbowl/Free Music/NOLA Black and Gold Gras thing... craziness.

Ankle on the ground, DAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT

I also heard that it was the highest rated game in NBC history.

Saints setting more records!

Sounds good

This means that fans across the nations want to watch us play. We are an exciting football team with a high powered offense and an aggressive defense. Oh yeah, we have the best looking uniforms in the NFL.

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground
Favre gets drilled, harper lays him out
Vilma gets the pick with favre on the ground

I would probably bet a big portion of the viewers also were tuning in to check out the Vikings.

A few gay ice fisherman dont count..lol:bng:

lose.

New Orleans not looking so small market anymore, it's starting to be the prized city of the South now, keep it up New Orleans!
I can foresee sooner or later New Orleans having International News stations relocating there and large Media studio's if it stays on the path it's in and continue to draw in large numbers to anything with the mention " New Orleans ".
It would be nice if the Job market there was better and crime was lower, damn i would move back in a second!

I want to... just dont know if i can make a livin there..Music is my life and thats a great place to be..but i gig so much here in Texas ..im scared to leave..but i might oneday

Agree:bng:
The more times Saints are on primetimeand they are many times this year,the higher the ratings,the more the networks are pleased. More money. Advertising costs.

I would say that based on the amount of media coverage that Favre has been getting over the last couple of years that it is possible that a couple of those viewers were tuning in to watch the Vikings...but, hey...what do I know?

Yeah but who were all of those 60+ million viewers watching during the reopening of the Superdome in our Crushing of the Atlanta/New Orleans game in 2006?
And Atlanta has a very horrible track record as a sports city so i wont buy half of their population was tuning in which gave it the bump lol.

If the NFL opening game had a bigger viewing in New Orleans than the Superbowl, I have this parcel of land called Texas I'd like to sell you...

If anything, this just geauxs to show that the Nielson Ratings are worth $#*!

Largest "regular" season game audience, not largest football game audience.. Superbowls are in a league of their own.