1.06 Million Watched CFL Season Opener

[Jesse834]

Preliminary overnight data from BBM Canada confirms that 1.06 million viewers watched last night's thrilling CFL ON TSN season opener featuring Montreal @ Saskatchewan - making this GREY CUP final re-match the most-watched CFL season opening game ever on TSN.

Audience levels peaked at 1.8 million viewers at 10:25 p.m. ET, as the Roughriders looked to have won the game in overtime, but were penalized for having too many men on the field. The Alouettes forced a second overtime, where Saskatchewan recorded a 54-51 double-OT victory over Montreal in the third-highest-scoring game in CFL history."

http://communities.canada.com/regina...rs-are-in.aspx

[Da_Chief]

What's Saskatchewan's population? sprinkle in few Francophones and boom.

[zarrell]

And this doesn't include the RDS numbers.

[calgaryrocks]

to put that in perspective, thats similar to NHL playoff games, but as Zarrell mentioned, no rds numbers, so probably add another 300k to that number

[shermanator]

I have to laugh at this...

the Roughriders looked to have won the game in overtime, but were penalized for having too many men on the field.

Really? Again? Is counting not big in Saskatchewan?

[Julio]

Montreal got caught with not enough players on the field for a play that resulted in a Saskatchewan touchdown.