Would a New England/Dallas Super Bowl become the highest rated program of all time?

[DSYoungEsq]

@PunditLisa

I guess we’ll never know. How big a draw is Ely Manning?

Who knows? But Peyton’s brother, Eli, might draw a look or two.

[FlightlessBird]

@gonzomax

The weather could be ugly.

In Arizona?

Or did you mean in the Championship game? Actually I think the weather may be worse in NE next weekend than in GB.

[cmkeller]

The Super Bowl might benefit from the writers’ strike - in the past, some networks have tried to compete for women’s eyes during the Super Bowl, but this year, what would they offer?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@FlightlessBird

In Arizona?

Or did you mean in the Championship game? Actually I think the weather may be worse in NE next weekend than in GB.

Likely to be in the single digits with a wind.

[zamboniracer]

@cmkeller

The Super Bowl might benefit from the writers’ strike - in the past, some networks have tried to compete for women’s eyes during the Super Bowl, but this year, what would they offer?

All Oprah, all the time.

[Exapno_Mapcase]

@Exapno Mapcase

Your own list shows that the Super Bowls have consistently garnered 40-42% of the audience in the 2000s. 44.4% is needed even to make it into the top 29.

My WAG is that there is less than a 50% chance that a New England/Dallas Super Bowl would make it into the top tier and an absolutely flat 0.00% chance it would be in the top 10, let alone number one.

Not too bad a prediction. Preliminary overnight ratings say that the Super Bowl just squeaked into the top 29 at a 44.7 rating and 67 share. That’s puts it very close to Super Bowl XXXII, from ten years ago.

Actual number of viewers is expected to be huge, because the number of people and sets in the U.S. keep rising every year.