For better or for worse, there were a monumental number of eyes on the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
The NFC Championship Game drew 56.6 million viewers — the most-watched telecast since last year’s Super Bowl, per The Athletic. The good? A lot of people seemingly cared about the Lions. The bad? A lot of people saw that epic meltdown.
These viewership numbers beat both of last year’s conference championship games — the 2023 AFC Championship featuring the Chiefs against the Bengals at 6:30 p.m. ET averaged 53.