Chiefs-Dolphins game in Germany draws near-record rating for NFL Network

The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Miami Dolphins 21-14 in front of 50,023 fans at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany

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on Sunday. Many, many, many more people watched it on television in the United States.

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The NFL's second-ever International Series game in Germany received a 4.8 average rating and 9.18 million total viewers for the NFL Network broadcast,

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which began at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday. It is the most-watched morning game on NFL Network since the Dolphins and New York Jets drew 9.86 million viewers in London in 2015,

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and it is the most-watched morning game ever broadcast on NFL Network, surpassing the 5.5 million viewers who tuned in to watch the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Munich last season.

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As one can expect, the game drew a large crowd in Kansas City alone, as Sports Business Journal's John Ourand noted:

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The total rating of the game trailed only the Week 1 Buffalo Bills-New York Jets matchup on "Monday Night Football" and the September 16 Colorado State-Colorado matchup

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as the most-watched cable sporting events since Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat in May.

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The final game on the NFL's 2023 International Series calendar will take place Sunday morning in Frankfurt between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots.

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