The first overlapping Monday Night Football doubleheader of the 2025 regular season featured two objectively non-entertaining contests that the favored teams won. The second overlapping MNF doubleheader had two close, compelling matchups that ended up being upsets.
The viewership for the two nights wasn’t much different.
On Wednesday, ESPN announced that the audience during the Bills-Falcons, Bears-Commanders overlap was 21.9 million . For Jets-Dolphins and Bengals-Broncos in Week 4, it was 21.4 million .
Also, the Week 4 Bengals-Broncos game on ABC fared better than the far more competitive and interesting Week 6 Bears-Commanders game on ABC: 13.2 million vs. 12.9 million.
Bills-Falcons attracted 10 million on ESPN. The Week 4 ESPN-only Jets-Dolphins average audience wasn’