Can Golf Be Blamed For The Slight Dip In Super Bowl Ratings?

Oh the irony?

The NFL regularly slaughters PGA Tour golf in the Nielsen world, but with Super Bowl 50 down for only the second time ever, could the 1.9 golf drew from 6:30-7 pm ET get some of the blame?

SportsMediaWatch.com's analysis off of SBJ's published numbers focused on the first four network broadcasts of 2016 being down and didn't dare suggest that the Rickie Fowler-Hideki Matsuyama playoff might have eaten into the early Super Bowl audience dropping by three million or so viewers.

Don't worry for Roger Goodell, CBS and friends: Super Bowl 50 was still the third most-watched show in American television history.