The AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium drew a huge TV audience and Kansas City reinforced its position as one of the NFL’s top local markets.
The Patriots’ victory over the Chiefs drew a 31.2 overnight national rating on CBS, the highest for an NFL conference title game in three years. It was the sixth-highest rating for any NFL game excluding the Super Bowl in the last two decades.
Kansas City led local markets with a 60.1 rating, the highest local rating for a conference championship game since 2010.
The mark was about the same as the Royals’ World Series-clinching Game 5 triumph over the Mets in 2015 (60.