Los Angeles TV viewers didn't care their own team played in the Super Bowl
Talk about embarrassing.
The Los Angeles Rams are Super Bowl LVI champions, having come from behind to take down the Cincinnati Bengals by an exciting 23-30 final score on Sunday.
As an added bonus, the game was played at SoFi Stadium, home of the Rams (and Los Angeles Chargers). But more fuel has been given to the narrative that Hollywood doesn't really have many true fans of the team.
SoFi Stadium was routinely taken over by fans of opposing teams, namely the San Francisco 49ers and Las Vegas Raiders, so much so that the NFC Championship game between the 49ers and Rams may as well have been a San Francisco home game due to the overwhelming presence of red in the crowd.
And now, the television ratings for Super Bowl LVI have been released. Despite the fact that their own team was playing in their own city, Los Angeles didn't even crack the top 10 of the 44 markets measured for numbers. In fact, the city of Detroit drew the second highest ratings behind only that of Cincinnati to watch their former quarterback in Matthew Stafford.
Check out the TV numbers below:
#SuperBowl local market ratings:
1. Cincinnati 46.1/84
2. Detroit 45.9/79
3. Pittsburgh 45.6/74
4. Columbus 45.4/80
5. Kansas City 44.6/76
6. Milwaukee 44/75
7. Cleveland 44/78
8. Boston 42.6/74
9. Philadelphia 42.3/71
10. Jacksonville 41.3/73
Not in top 10: Los Angeles 36.7/77
The game was watched by an average of 112.3 million viewers, which is a 14% jump from last year's Super Bowl that saw Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs.
The most watched Super Bowl remains the 2015 matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots with 114.4 million viewers.
