CHART: In Sports Television There Is The NFL And There Is Everything Else

There have been 11 NFL games played in 2013 and ten of them rank as the ten most-watched sporting events this year based on data collected by SportsMediaWatch.com.

The NFL would have made a clean sweep if not for the BCS Championship game and game seven of the NBA Finals. Both of those games barely out-rated the AFC Wild Card matchup between the Bengals and Texans.

After the NFL playoffs you can see a pattern in the chart below. Championship games will typically draw an audience of 23-26 million viewers. After those games, there is a drop-off to the next group of big games which typically draw 14-17 million viewers...