Dallas Cowboys Rule on Television, and Other Tales of Texas Football
Nothing grabs an audience quite like the NFL
Win or lose, the Dallas Cowboys have been NFL ratings gold. (And they beat Kansas City on Thanksgiving.)
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If you watched the Cowboys - Chiefs game on Thanksgiving like I did, then we were in good company. Record setting, actually. The game drew 57.2 million viewers, according to CBS, the most-ever for a regular season game. Here is a fun fact: Neither the home nor the visiting owners had to travel for the game. Like Jerry Jones, the Hunt family, owners of the Chiefs, live in Dallas, too.