The Bills and Houston Texans played a thrilling game on ESPN’s broadcast on the game on Saturday. Buffalo lost 22-19 but won another ratings battle.
The outlet announced that the game was the most-viewed Saturday Wild Card game since 2014 and the highest-viewed ever on ESPN. The audience was up 14 percent from last season.
The game averaged 226,409,000 viewers and topped at approximately 34,000,000. That comes on the heels of the Bills-Cowboys and Bills-Steelers earlier this season.
Both of those game also set broadcasting benchmarks.
With all those eyes on the Bills, it would likely be crazy now to not have Buffalo playing on primetime football next season. Technically in 2019 the team didn’t receive a single “primetime game.” The Thanksgiving game with the Cowboys isn’t considered primetime while the Bills-Steelers were flexed into that spot.
Make it right, NFL.
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