The National Football League comprises 32 teams from across the United States competing in two conferences split roughly by region. The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. This survey depicts the level of interest in the NFL in the United States, and it showed that 42 percent of Black respondents were avid fans of the NFL as of April 2023.

The NFL is one of the most widely televised sporting leagues in the world. The average television viewership of a regular season NFL game in 2024 was calculated to be **** million. Attendance In addition to this record-breaking TV viewership, the NFL attracts thousands of fans to the stadiums each week to see their favorite teams in action. The NFL has consistently been the major American sports league with the highest average attendance, with an average of almost ** thousand people attending each game in the 2023 season. Moreover, during the 2024 regular season, the average total home attendance per team across the entire NFL was calculated to be *******. The franchise with the highest total attendance for its eight regular-season home games was the Dallas Cowboys, perhaps in part to their comparatively reasonably priced tickets, costing nearly *** U.S. dollars on average, just less than the average ticket price across the NFL at *** U.S. dollars per ticket. Best players Since 1957, the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award has been given to the NFL player considered to have been the most outstanding during the season. Since the award's introduction, Peyton Manning has received the award the greatest number of times during his career, closely followed by Aaron Rodgers, who has received the award on **** occasions. One other potential indicator of the success of an NFL player is their annual salary. The highest-paid NFL player in 2024 was Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who earned **** million U.S. dollars from salary and bonuses and ** million U.S. dollars from endorsement deals during the 2024 season.

During a September 2024 survey in the United States, almost 30 percent of respondents aged 18 to 24 stated that they planned to watch fewer NFL games compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, 19 percent of respondents aged 25 to 44 stated that they intended to watch more NFL games.

The National Football League comprises 32 teams from across the United States competing in two conferences split roughly by region. The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. A January 2025 survey found that 32 percent of Americans aged 34 to 54 considered the NFL to be their top interest.

An August 2022 survey in the United States revealed that respondents were fairly divided about their intentions to tune into the new NFL season. While ** percent of male respondents planned to watch NFL games on TV in the new season, just over ** percent of female respondents stated that they had no intention of doing so.

As of August 2023, around half of NFL fans aged 18-29 were white. Meanwhile, ** percent of NFL fans aged 30 or older were Black, while this figure stood at ** percent among those aged 18 to 29.

Monday Night Football on ESPN averaged around 15 million viewers in the United States during the 2024 NFL regular season. This marked a fall from the previous season's figure, but an increase of 12 percent on the average audience during the 2022 season. Sunday, Monday, happy nights The NFL has primetime games that are broadcast across the entire United States by one major network on Thursday night, Sunday night, and Monday night – these games start at around 8:30 pm Eastern Time. Sunday Night Football consistently remains the most viewed television show in the United States, with other NFL broadcasts also featuring high in the ranking every ear. TV networks pay top dollar The NFL generates an estimated 10 billion U.S. dollars per year from broadcasting rights deals, a figure that has increased significantly over the years. ESPN agreed on a nine-year deal with the NFL – at an average annual cost of 2.7 billion U.S. dollars, ensuring the network has the rights to show Monday Night Football until at least 2032. Following on from this, Amazon Prime won the rights to Thursday Night Football for an estimated 1.2 billion U.S. dollars annually.

In a September 2024 survey, ** percent of respondents in the United States reported watching more than ** NFL games on average during the 2023/24 season. Meanwhile, only ***** percent of fans watched just *** game.

In 2022, the average viewership of NFL games at primetime in the United States sank to *** million. This continued the trend of decline in primetime viewership that began in 2002 and was constant except for the years 2006, 2008, and 2013, when there were slight increases in the number of viewers. In comparison, the average television viewership of the NFL regular season only reached below ** million once between 2010 and 2023.

The statistic shows figures on the television ratings and viewership figures for NFL games in the United States from September 11 (week 1) to February 5, 2017 (Super Bowl). The game in week nine between the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders, broadcast on NBC, was watched by a total of 18.3 million viewers. The final and most important game of the season, the Super Bowl, was watched by over 111 million people in the United States. The most-watched Super Bowl since 1990 was Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, which was contested between the New England and the Seattle Seahawks. The game was watched by over 114 million people across the United States, giving it a household rating of 47.5.

Figures for the 2017/18 season can be found here.

The statistic shows figures on the television ratings and viewership figures for NFL games in the United States in the 2015/16 season. The week one game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots was watched by 27.4 million viewers, and had a household rating of 16.2. The viewership figures and ratings for the 2016/17 season can be found here.

The Detroit Lions were the most watched team in the NFL in the 2024 regular season, with their games drawing in an average TV audience of over ** million fans. Meanwhile, the regular season games of the Philadelphia Eagles, the winners of the Super Bowl that year, averaged just over **** million viewers.

The statistic shows figures on the television ratings and viewership figures for NFL games in the United States in the 2017/18 season. The week one game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New England Patriots was watched by almost 21.8 million viewers, and had a household rating of 12.6. The viewership figures and ratings for the 2016/17 season can be found here.

Total attendance at National Football League (NFL) games reached about ***** million fans across the regular season in 2024. This represented a slight decrease over the previous year's figure of approximately **** million spectators. Attendance at NFL games Over the last few years the total attendance at regular season games of the National Football League has consistently been at more than ** million per season. The NFL is composed of 32 teams and each team plays a minimum of 8 home games during the regular season for a total of 256 games per season. The average attendance at National Football League games was at around ****** in the 2023 season. Dallas Cowboys drew record crowds In 2023, the Dallas Cowboys drew the most spectators to their home games with a total attendance of more than *** thousand. The Cowboys also had the highest average attendance that season with around ****** people attending each home game. The average price for a ticket to an NFL game was at ****** U.S. dollars in 2023. On average, tickets to Las Vegas Raiders games were the most expensive (****** U.S. dollars), while tickets for Arizona Cardinals games were the least expensive, with an average price of ***** U.S. dollars.

The Thanksgiving weekend game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys attracted a television audience of over ** million viewers in the United States. This made it the most watched NFL game during the 2024 regular season.

This graph shows the share of internet users who watch NFL in the United States in 2015 by age group. According to the source, ** percent of viewers aged 45-54 watched NFL coverage in the fourth quarter of 2014.

NBC is home to the iconic Saturday Night Football, one of the mainstays of the NFL regular season. Average viewership of Saturday Night Football on NBC in the 2024 regular season stood at **** million.

The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. As of April 2025, a survey determined that 26 percent of respondents in the United States considered the NFL to be their top interest.

An average of 16.7 million viewers tuned in to watch Thursday Night Football in the United States during the 2022 NFL season. This marked a decrease of 400 thousand viewers from the previous year.

NBC's Sunday Night Football is a mainstay of the sports television schedule in the United States. In the 2023/24 season, an average of 21.4 million viewers watched SNF, up eight percent on the previous year.