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5 Interesting, Funny, and Touching Things that Happened in Sports This Week
Alex Abrams
November 23, 2023
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Good Thursday Morning. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers in the States. Bringing you an abbreviated, “feast” of fun sports stories from this week.
The next full issue will be coming Thursday 11/30. If you’re craving a deeper dive into sports business, you can take a look at past editions here.
Five Interesting, Funny, and Touching Things that Happened in Sports This Week
This week’s Chiefs-Eagles MNF game drew incomparable numbers, and MNF is having a monster year overall.
The @Eagles X @Chiefs Monday Night Football game this week drew 29 million viewers
🏈Most-Watched MNF Game in the ESPN Era
🏈 Most-Watched Television Program Since Super Bowl LVII in February
🏈 Most-Watched NFL Game Since Thanksgiving 2022Also, this picture 🔥
— Sportico (@Sportico)
1:39 AM • Nov 22, 2023
Season-to-date, MNF is averaging 16.63 million viewers per game, good for a 26% improvement compared to the year-ago average (13.15 million)
More➡️ sportico.com/business/media….
— Sportico (@Sportico)
1:43 AM • Nov 22, 2023
The Detroit Red Wings win Thanksgiving
The Detroit Red Wings are giving away 7,500 zamboni gravy boats at tonight’s Thanksgiving eve game 🫗
— Front Office Sports (@FOS)
7:16 PM • Nov 22, 2023
US sports betting continues to skyrocket. The $80 billion that has been bet in Q1-Q3 of this year is up 23% compared to last year.
The U.S. is on pace to hit an unprecedented $100 BILLION in total betting handle in 2023 — the most ever.
MORE » gofos.co/3T09HAu
— Front Office Sports (@FOS)
5:04 PM • Nov 22, 2023
Erin Matson just led UNC to its 5th straight field hockey title. She got 4 as a player, and this one comes in her first year as UNC’s coach — at the age of 23 🤯
History was made in Chapel Hill, North Carolina yesterday when @UNC@UNCFieldHockey’s 23-year-old Erin Matson became the youngest Division 1 head coach to win a National Championship! ☀️
— TODAY (@TODAYshow)
12:59 PM • Nov 20, 2023
Due to the existing rivalry, the CFP implications, and the emotion on both sides around the Michigan sign-stealing story, tickets for “The Game” this weekend are reaching unprecedented highs. (P.S. Go Blue — Beat Ohio)
'The Game' between Ohio State and Michigan is set to be among the most expensive tickets in the rivalry's history.
The average secondary market price: $1,262
gofos.co/3QNCHJ7
— Front Office Sports (@FOS)
8:42 PM • Nov 21, 2023
BONUS: The Las Vegas Grand Prix started off slowly but ended up delivering a strong result both on and off the track. Check out the behind the scenes on how they created a memorable drone show during the opening.
The Las Vegas GP averaged 1.3 million viewers on ESPN in the U.S. despite the 1amET start time. This was the third largest audience on cable this year
An interesting BTS of one of the Las Vegas GP drone show:
— Sportico (@Sportico)
5:41 PM • Nov 22, 2023
DOUBLE BONUS (it is feast week after all!): This kid is a legend, and the NFL needs to let him do something at the Combine for the content. Also, here’s the Bible verse he quotes if you want some extra fun
we need to get Barclay Briggs to the NFL Combine
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb)
11:24 PM • Nov 21, 2023
Until next time, sports fans!
-Alex