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The NFL’s decision to take over Christmas Day seems to have paid off.
The NFL’s Christmas Day games drew massive ratings Monday, the networks announced. The Las Vegas Raiders’ upset win over the Kansas City Chiefs to open the three-game slate drew an average audience of more than 29 million viewers on CBS — which made it the most-watched Christmas Day game in 34 years.
Then the night game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens was the second-most-watched “Monday Night Football” game in the last 27 years. More than 27 million people tuned in on ESPN and ABC to watch the Ravens beat the 49ers, which trailed only the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles matchup on “Monday Night Football” earlier this season.
Fox has yet to release its viewership numbers from Monday’s afternoon game between the Eagles and the New York Giants.
Christmas has traditionally been a holiday that the NBA dominates. The league had five marquee matchups on Monday, starting with the Milwaukee Bucks falling to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden and ending with the Dallas Mavericks beating the Suns in Phoenix. But since Christmas fell on a Monday this year, the NFL decided to jump in.
Based on how this year went and what the calendar looks like in the coming years, it’s hard to see the NFL not returning to Christmas Day in the future. While Christmas falls on a Wednesday next year — and the NFL told Front Office Sports last week that it wasn’t likely to play any games on that day — the holiday will take place on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday in the four following years. Those are all days that the NFL traditionally plays on, now that its Black Friday game is a thing.
Since fans seemed to love the decision, and it’d be easy to keep going, it wouldn’t be surprising to see both the NFL and NBA competing on Christmas next December.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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