Giants beat out Jets in ratings on Sunday
Wide receiver Rueben Randle #82 of the New York Giants celebrates with running back Shane Vereen #34 after scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown against the Washington Redskins at FedExField on Nov. 29, 2015 in Landover, Md. Credit: Getty Images / Patrick Smith
The Jets were by far the better New York-area football team on the field Sunday, but the Giants comfortably won the ratings battle with the teams playing simultaneously starting at 1 p.m.
The Giants averaged 11.7 percent of metropolitan-area homes for their loss to the Redskins on Fox while the Jets averaged 7.7 percent for their victory over the Dolphins on CBS.
It was the seventh time in the past seven seasons -- and fifth in the past four -- that the teams played at the same time, something that until recently was an extreme rarity.
It did happen in Week 14 last year, when both teams were out of playoff contention.
That day the Jets averaged 8.1 percent of area homes for their game against the Vikings and the Giants 7.7 percent for their game against the Titans.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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