More people watched a Super Bowl starring Matthew Stafford than one starring Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. And, maybe, you can thank Detroit Lions fans for that.
Super Bowl 56, between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams, was watched on television by more people than Super Bowl 55 nationwide, but that was especially true in Motown: Detroit had the second-highest TV viewership of the 44 metered markets tracked by Neilsen.
Could that be because Stafford, the most prolific passer in Lions history, was leading the Rams?