It was a great weekend of football for the NFL, with three out of four playoff games coming down to the wire. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to stop the steady decline of NFL ratings the league has been struggling to deal with the past two seasons.
According to SportsBusiness Daily’s Austin Karp, last weekend was the lowest-rated divisional playoff slate the NFL has had since 2009. That follows a wild-card weekend that saw its lowest ratings since 2008. And it all comes on top of a 7-percent decline in ratings across the league during the regular season.