It seems that the whole country watched the Kansas City Chiefs lose to the Las Vegas Raiders on Christmas day, and after viewership metrics for the matchup were announced this week, the sheer size of the holiday audience was astounding.
According to the CBS Sports PR Twitter account, more than 29 million viewers tuned in to watch Kansas City collapse against Las Vegas at Arrowhead Stadium in Week 16.
CBS Sports and Nickelodeon deliver the most-watched NFL Christmas Day game since 1989 with more than 29 million viewers for Raiders-Chiefs pic.twitter.com/gJIPUFs5XV
— CBS Sports PR (@CBSSportsGang) December 26, 2023
This constituted the largest audience for a Christmas game since 1989, a factoid that should be of particular note to the Swiftie community.
At one point during the game, more than 37 million viewers were watching the Chiefs get manhandled by the Raiders, which may account for the utter shellacking that Kansas City took on social media after the game.
While one game rarely comes to define a team’s season, the Chiefs’ loss to Las Vegas may prove to be the moment that many fans across the country remember when looking back at Kansas City’s Super Bowl LVII defense campaign, even if only because it was so widely watched.
