The lightning strike for football fans was eased a bit because the game was going to halftime when the interruption occurred, so they only missed about 15 minutes of that telecast. Still some were angry.
Football was being seen in 12.1 percent of homes in the market with a TV before the weather updates began. The rating for storm coverage (4:45-5:15 p.m.) was 15.6, second only to the 16.0 figure from 5-5:30 p.m., when the first 15 minutes were occupied by weather reports and the rest by the football game.
The rating dipped to 14.5 from 5:15-5:30 p.