After a season marked by worrisome NFL ratings declines, viewers showed up in droves for the big game.
Super Bowl LI was seen by 113.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings provided by Fox Sports.
The tally is up slightly from last year, marking a turnaround after 2016’s dip in the ratings.
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If you only count Fox linear viewership, the ratings just about tie last year.
Then 2014 (112.2 million) and 2015 (114.4 million) continued the upward march.
Last year, ratings fell back to 111.9 million.
There’s been a lot of recent debate whether football has peaked.
This sounds rather impressive.
