So much for the boycotts.
The Philadelphia Eagles’ 40-22 blow out win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX set an all-time record in viewership on Sunday night with 126 million viewers, FOX Sports announced.
The network reported a peak audience of 135.7 million viewers in the second quarter of the Eagles’ 40-22 win.
The Super Bowl also drew in record-high streaming viewership, including 13.6 million viewers watching on Tubi, according to Fox Sports.
Prior to the Chiefs’ run, the Super Bowl viewership record had been set in 2015 by the average of 114.4 million people watching Tom Brady and the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, per ESPN.
NBC has the rights to three upcoming Super Bowls, including Super Bowl LX. The championship game for the 2025 season is set to take place in the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California next February.
