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Julian Edelman Jerseys Stitched , Calif. (AP) — The New England Patriots‘ competitive but action-starved Super Bowl victory over the Los Angeles Rams was
seen by 100.7 million people on television and streaming services, the smallest
audience for football’s annual spectacle in a decade.A boycott by disgruntled
New Orleans Saints fans, a campaign by fans of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and
a game with only one touchdown combined to shrink the audience. On CBS alone,
the game was seen by 98.2 million people, compared to 103.4 million who watched
on NBC last year, according to the Nielsen company.Since reaching a peak of
114.4 million viewers for the Patriots’ 2015 victory over the Seattle
Seahawks
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year in the U.S., and its audience hadn’t dipped below 100 million since the
Pittsburgh Steelers–Arizona Cardinals game in 2009.CBS dealt with a city that
held a major grudge. Many fans in New Orleans, where the hometown Saints were
victimized by a blown referee’s call toward the end of its loss to the Rams in
the NFC championship, skipped the game entirely. Preliminary ratings from New
Orleans showed that Super Bowl viewership this year was half what it was in
2018.New Orleans’ Times Picayune newspaper printed a mostly blank front page on
Monday with the words, “Super Bowl?” What Super Bowl?”The newspaper asked, “you
think the NFL is sad that the Saints weren’t in it to spice up the night?”There
was also a campaign on Twitter by people who said they would not watch the game
because of Kaepernick
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protest of police treatment of minorities.After a season of offensive fireworks
and conference championships that both went into overtime, Sunday’s game was a
defensive struggle where the teams were tied 3-3 entering the fourth quarter.
That’s a tough slog for the casual fan, and the Super Bowl draws millions who
don’t watch football regularly.At one point CBS commentator Tony Romo said,
“this is hard to watch.” Others were blunter still. The website The Ringer said
that “the historically boring Super Bowl sent football back to the Stone
Age.”Cindy Boren of The Washington Post wrote that it was “a snore of a Super
Bowl.” The New York Times headlined a story: “How boring was the Super Bowl? The
punts got exciting.”The words “boring” and “Super Bowl” appeared in the same
tweets more than 70,000 times in the past 24 hours. The words “worst” and “Super
Bowl” were matched more than 50,000 times.If anything
Color Rush Damien Harris Jersey , football fans have been spoiled by a string of competitive Super Bowls after many years in which big game blowouts became
commonplace. This year the game’s outcome was in doubt until the final seconds,
but it had only one touchdown and few scoring threats.The one growth area for
CBS was streaming. The network said an average of 2.6 million people streamed
the game, up 31 percent over last year.CBS did achieve its goal of having a
large audience sample its new talent show, “The World’s Best.” Nielsen said 22.2
million people watched the show’s debut, the most-watched entertainment show
since the Oscars last year and the biggest entertainment premiere on TV since
“Undercover Boss” debuted after the Super Bowl nine years ago. The Patriots are
turning the Jimmy Garoppolo trade into quite a haul of talent.New England traded
Garoppolo to San Francisco during the 2017 season for the 49ers’ 2018
second-round draft pick. That pick turned out to be the 43rd overall pick in the
2018 NFL draft. But the Patriots didn’t use it. Instead, they traded it for two
picks — and then traded those two picks for more picks
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49ers’ second-rounder. And they’re still not done.As noted by PatsPulpit.com,
the Patriots’ moves after the Garoppolo trade have been extraordinary:They
traded the 49ers’ pick last year to the Lions for the 51st and 117th overall
picks.They traded the 51st overall pick to the Bears for the 105th overall pick,
plus the Bears’ 2019 second-round pick.They traded the 105th overall pick to
Cleveland for the 114th and 178th overall pick.They traded the 114th overall
pick to Detroit for the Lions’ 2019 third-round pick.With the 178th overall pick
they drafted Christian Sam.With the 117th overall pick they traded up from their
own second-round pick to draft Duke Dawson.With that 2019 second-round they got
from the Bears, the Patriots combined it with another pick to move up this year
and draft Joejuan Williams.With the 2019 third-round pick they got from the
Lions, the Patriots made another trade with the Bears, this time getting the
87th and 162nd overall picks
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third-round pick to get two other picks that they used on Yodny Cajuste and
Jarrett Stidham.So the Patriots got Christian Sam and Damien Harris out of the
Garoppolo trade, plus picks that were partially responsible for trades that got
them Duke Johnson, Joejuan Williams, Yodny Cajuste and Jarrett Stidham, and they
still have the Bears’ 2020 fourth-round pick. That’s a mighty big return for the
Patriots.
