ESPN’s Week 1 Monday Night Football ratings release omits ManningCast numbers
The total number was strong, to quite strong. The Jets-49ers game averaged 20.5 million viewers, even with ESPN and (in many markets) ABC not available on DirecTV. It is, as the ESPN P.R. staff says, the second most-watched Week 1 game in the ESPN era of Monday Night Football. (It helps to have the game on ABC, too.)