There was so much going on during Saturday night’s Wild-Card playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs that it’s no wonder that the game set a record and became the most streamed game in NFL history with an average of 23 million viewers watching the contest over Peacock. The NFL was criticized for making the game the first playoff game exclusively available via a streaming platform although those in Kansas City and Miami were able to stream the game for free.
The previous NFL record for streaming viewership during one game was the average of 15.26 million who watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the Seattle Seahawks in a regular season “Thursday Night Football” game last November on Prime Video. Peacock previously streamed a regular season game on December 23rd between the Los Angeles Chargers and Buffalo Bills. That game drew an audience of 7.3 million with a fourth-quarter average of 8.4 million viewers.
As for the game, the Miami Dolphins, not a traditionally good cold-weather team for obvious reasons, were trounced by Kansas City 26-7.