82 of top 100 TV broadcasts
Of the top 100 TV broadcasts aired in a recent year, 82 were NFL games, illustrating the league's total dominance of American television.
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Intro - Welcome to the Remastered NFL Episode
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Three years after the original episode, Ben and David return to the NFL with a clear mandate: update it for a much larger Acquired audience, incorporate the seismic business developments since 2023, and cap it off with a personal milestone — Acquired hosting the NFL's inaugural Super Bowl Innovation Summit in San Francisco. Ben ticks through the updates (streaming gone mainstream, gambling exploding, Taylor Swift's crossover), while David teases the private equity story as the wildest development of all. The intro also drops a few scene-setting stats: football is more than 3x as popular as the next-highest sport in America, 82 of the top 100 TV broadcasts last year were NFL games, and the Super Bowl weekend has the fewest weddings of any weekend in the year.
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