Kansas City vs. Buffalo draws biggest NFL divisional round viewership ever
Taylor Swift, right, and Brittany Mahomes react during the third quarter of a division playoff football game between Buffalo and Kansas City on Jan. 21, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. Credit: AP/Frank Franklin II
More than 50 million people watched Sunday night’s NFL playoff game between Kansas City and Buffalo, the highest viewership ever recorded for a divisional round playoff game, CBS announced on Tuesday.
The back-and-forth game, won by Kansas City, 27-24, averaged 50.393 million viewers, making it the first divisional round game to surpass 50 million. The previous record was 48.522 million for a Cowboys-Packers game in 2017, CBS said.
Viewership peaked at 56.250 million.
CBS also said it was the most-streamed live event in Paramount+ history.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
