{"id":74734,"date":"2025-12-03T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74734\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:34:08","slug":"cowboys-chiefs-thanksgiving-matchup-on-cbs-is-the-most-watched-regular-season-nfl-game-ever-basketball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/74734\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys-Chiefs Thanksgiving matchup on CBS is the most-watched regular-season NFL game ever | Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chiefs-cowboys-score-28f74d6cd4ced96030eeeed7fbf11002\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys&#8217; 31-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> on Thanksgiving Day averaged 57.23 million viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched regular-season game in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>The early game between Green Bay and Detroit \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/packers-lions-score-2216db5c2c12605ba533ed0fea438460\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won by the Packers 31-24<\/a> \u2014 averaged 47.7 million, making it the second most-watched in league history and the most-watched regular-season game since Fox began carrying the NFL in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys-Chiefs game shattered by 36% the previous league record, which was 42.06 million for the New York Giants-Cowboys game on Fox in 2022. It was also a 47% increase over last year&#8217;s late afternoon Thanksgiving game between the Giants and Cowboys (38.84 million).<\/p>\n<p>The audience peaked at 61.36 million for the game&#8217;s conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The previous regular-season mark on CBS was 41.76 million for the 2023 Thanksgiving game between the Washington Commanders and the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFL. Thanksgiving. Chiefs. Cowboys. A perfect recipe for a record audience. We\u2019re thrilled and honored this NFL showcase delivered the most-watched regular-season game in NFL history,\u201d said David Berson, president and CEO of CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the five most-watched regular-season games in NFL history are the late afternoon Thanksgiving game in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The audience for the Green Bay-Detroit game peaked at 57.96 million.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ravens-bengals-score-96b227ea2d112813efbb9e1b96bc24c6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; 32-14 win over the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> also set a mark for the most-watched Thanksgiving night game. Joe Burrow&#8217;s return to the Bengals lineup averaged 28.4 million on NBC. The previous record was 27.8 million when Chicago faced Green Bay in 2015 when Brett Favre&#8217;s jersey was retired at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys&#8217; 31-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Thanksgiving Day averaged 57.23 million viewers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1770],"class_list":{"0":"post-74734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}