What happens when you combine one of the NFL’s most popular teams and the largest market in the country?
Jets-Patriots Beats Cowboys-Panthers In ‘97 As Most Watched NFL Divisional Playoff Game
Record-breaking TV ratings.
The New York Jets upset defeat of the New England Patriots netted 43.5 million viewers according to an NFL spokesman. That puts them as the most watched divisional playoff game in NFL history.
They pass the Dallas Cowboys and Carolina Panthers 1997 divisional playoff game who previously held the record with 42.7 million viewers.
Now in third place is Joe Montana's Chiefs against Warren Moon's Oilers in 1994 (which is also the last time the Chiefs won a playoff game).
The Jets will now travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers, who have a wide-ranging fanbase. If anyone’s going to continue breaking ratings records, it’ll be the Jets.
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