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Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The Thanksgiving day crippled betwixt the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys acceptable the people for the most-watched NFL regular-season crippled connected record.
The Cowboys' 28-20 triumph connected Fox averaged 42 cardinal viewers, according to Nielsen, surpassing the 41.55 cardinal mean for the Dec. 3, 1990, Monday nighttime crippled betwixt the Giants and San Francisco 49ers connected ABC. Average spectator grounds numbers day to 1988.
The mean viewership for the 3 Thanksgiving Day games Thursday was 33.5 million, surpassing the erstwhile precocious of 32.9 cardinal successful 1993, erstwhile 2 games were aired.
The mean was besides up 6% implicit past year's mean of 31.6 million.
The Buffalo Bills' 28-25 triumph implicit the Detroit Lions connected CBS was the most-watched aboriginal Thanksgiving Day crippled connected grounds with a 31.6 cardinal average.
The nighttime crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings averaged 25.9 million, the second-highest assemblage for a Thanksgiving nighttime contest. The Vikings' 33-26 triumph was surpassed lone by the 2015 crippled betwixt the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers (27.8 million).
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