You go to a sports bar on Sunday during football season, it's half women watching games. There is already a faction of NFL fans on social media who refer to the NFL as scripted. "Every time we play an international game, fans say they want more. "I wouldn't be surprised if they went to Friday-Saturday-Sunday after the high school and college football season. The 2025 Thanksgiving Day NFL games shattered viewership records as the average viewership across all three games — Packers vs. Lions, Chiefs vs. Cowboys and Bengals vs. Ravens — was 44.7 million viewers, the highest Thanksgiving Day average on record.

Source: Fox News March 16, 2026 13:23 UTC