The country now knows what most sports fan here in Metro Detroit have known for years: we love our football.
Early TV ratings for the Lions' 24-13 win Monday over the Bears at Ford Field made ESPN's "Monday Night Football" the second-best rated game of the year for the network , the Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.
The Web site based its 10.7 Detroit-area household rating for ESPN viewers and 25.7 rating on ABC affiliate WXYZ (Channel 7) on what it called "very preliminary numbers."
Those two numbers combined result in a 36.4 rating for the Detroit viewing market.
A ratings point is equal to about one percent of the 115.9 million television-viewing households in the U.S.
The Web site reported Monday's average metered market rating for the game nationwide at 11.3 and projects viewing numbers to be higher than the Monday night game on ESPN between the Redskins and Cowboys two weeks ago.
Monday's Lions-Bears game, according to the Hollywood Reporter , beats ESPN's Monday night season opener between the Patriots and Dolphins which drew an 11.3 household rating.
When contacted by The News on Tuesday, Michael Humes, an ESPN spokesman, said the network was still tallying official numbers for the Lions-Bears game.
Fans in the Detroit area could watch the game locally on either ESPN or ABC. The networks chose to air the 8:30 p.m. game on ABC due to an expected larger viewership turnout. The decision bumped Monday's two-hour broadcast of "Dancing with the Stars" to 2 a.m.
In Chicago, the Hollywood Reporter reported a 18.7 household rating for the Bears-Lions game on ESPN and a mark of 13.3 on independent station WCIU, for a combined 32.0 market rating.
Tigers-Rangers strong tooBaseball also drew strong ratings Monday in Detroit as the Tigers squared off against the Rangers for Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
The Tigers' 7-3 loss at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington drew a 26.4 rating and 45 share in Detroit, good for No.1 for its time slot, Fox Sports spokesman Lou D'Ermilio told The News in an e-mail.
Ermilio confirmed the Lions-Bears game's 36.4 rating and a 52 share locally, but said an estimated 30 percent more households used a television during the football game compared to Game 2 of the ALCS.
"That's why 8-11 p.m. is prime time," Ermilio said in the e-mail. "If you tacked on 30% to the 26.4, the Tigers' rating would be 34.3, pretty close to the 36.4 the Lions did."
eric.lacy@detnews.com
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