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The Highest Rated Football Game in TV History

Bradley Lasher enrolled as an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University in 2017. He is double majoring in marketing and management. Bradley Lasher's interests range from weight lifting to watching football, which he played in high school.

On January 24, 1982, the San Francisco 49ers played the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI. The game became the highest-rated Super Bowl in television history, a record it still holds today. The game earned a 49.1 household rating, meaning nearly half of the available televisions in the United States were tuned into the game, which saw Joe Montana and the 49ers stave off a fourth-quarter surge from the Bengals, taking the Lombardi Trophy by a score of 26-21. In total, more than 110 million individuals watched the game.

The record for peak viewership of a football game took place during Super Bowl XLIV in 2015 when nearly 115 million viewers watched the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24. Furthermore, the game stands as the most-watched broadcast event in US television history.
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