$uper Bowl $eahawk$: MAGA thinks Nielsen is lying...

I've already seen this three times this morning from White Right influencers.

This should scare the NFL. pic.twitter.com/4qbiFX9BaA

— The American Girl (@TheAmericanGrl) February 11, 2026

It's a chart from a group called Samba, an alternate TV ratings situation to Nielsen, which is openly charging that Nielsen is blatantly lying about it's numbers for Super Bowl LX, especially as they relate to the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Remember that Nielsen has stated that viewership was going up into the halftime show and peaked during it.

Samba is charging a flagrant 10% drop in the number of people watching Bad Bunny vs. the previous part of the game.  If this is the case, it would mean that Nielsen is actually overcounting the halftime show by at least a factor of 15-20%.

They're saying 110M (at best! -- because I can't think they then believe the Super Bowl numbers are accurate either!) saw Bad Bunny. 

NBA Discipline Blotter: Monday brawl leads to one of the longer recent suspensions...

And the numbers came down today:

• Jalen Duren (DET) got two games for starting it. 
• Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate (CHA) got four each for escalating it.
• But the big one was a repeat offender, Detroit's Isaiah Stewart, who, for coming off the bench to flare up the confrontation, put one of the Hornets in a headlock and repeatedly punch him, and his lengthy record, got seven games.

Duren is an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve.  As of right now, that has not been removed.  It should be.  Not only because of the nature of the event, but he started the damn thing too!

First off, I think all the suspensions are low.  This had multiple flare-ups and the very real possibility the game should've been terminated.

Second, here's Stewart, from Spotrac, in his six-year NBA career:

• November 22, 2021:  Two game suspension, escalating a fight.
• February 22, 2024:  Three games, starting a fight.
• January 31, 2025:  $50,000 fine for obscene gestures following an ejection.
• Also suspended a game, because he had committed his sixth flagrant foul in just 47 games that season.
• April 1, 2025:  Two more games for escalating another incident.
• February 11, 2026:  He now gets seven.

That should be at least TWENTY.

Enough with "The Show Must Go On". 

That's three high-level suspensions in basically a calendar year.  He leaves the bench to join the altercation.  Headlock.  Punches.  Police are involved in the altercation (which should've terminated the game immediately and for the night -- that's a general pet peeve of mine, that any time the cops get involved, that's it for the night). 

NFL and Politics: A Curious Fact came up today...

A survey came out of 24 states worth of NFL players.

752 voting registrations were looked at, about the equivalent of 14 NFL rosters, slightly less than half of the league.  The company doing the survey, VoteHub, probably couldn't gain access -- legally or otherwise -- to the others.

The team with the highest skew of each party may surprise you, both ways.

The Republican winner?  The San Francisco 49ers, making the team itself probably one of the least representative parts of their city.

The same can be said for the Democratic winner:  The Green Bay Packers, in a very Trump-loving part of Wisconsin with a very rural fanbase.

Overall, of at least the 752 they could find:  44% independent, 34% Democrat, 20% Republican.

One more thought:  Could this be one reason that two 49er players have been shot in their city in the last couple of years.  Asking for a friend. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And the most important numbers of the day just came in...

The Ratings Report.

This is usually true every year, because the Super Bowl is, and largely by a multiplicative amount, the most-watched event of the television year.

More so this year with the Terrorist Point USA and MAGA screaming.

Well, the verdict came in late this afternoon.

And, per Sports Media Watch:

If there was a boycott, then MAGA and TPUSA can claim a fair, if not substantial, victory in the ratings numbers (that is, the percentage of all television sets viewing the given event).

Super Bowl LX, with a comparative game structure (basic non-competitive blowout throughout), lost 6% of that percentage of TV sets viewing.

LIX:  41.7

LX:  39.4

The share was also down 4 points -- 83% of all television sets turned on during the game were watching the game at LIX.  LX?  79%. 

It is the first non-COVID Super Bowl to fall below a 40 since 1990.  To give a comparison, once you go back from 1990, you'd have to go back to Super Bowl IV to get a rating that low.

That's the good news for TPUSA and MAGA.

There is some bad news however, and it comes in two flavors.

First, the viewer total for Super Bowl LX was 124.9 million, a decline of slightly over 2%.

LIX:  127.7M

LX:  124.9M

TPUSA/MAGA may still attempt to claim a victory here as well, but they might have a bit of a problem here more than above.  Two reasons:

First, the number still represents the second-highest Neilsen viewership in Super Bowl history (behind LIX).

And second is this little thing called Taylor Swift.  One COULD make the case the entire almost three million could've been the Swifties tuning out because their girl's fiancee was not in the game.

And then the main event:  The halftime show.

LIX claimed 133.5 million, a Super Bowl record.

LX did fall down about 4%, to 128.2 million.  Far below claims of 10, 20 million -- I heard one claim on their social media saying half the viewers of the game left before the show.

They can claim a victory here too, maybe.  But there's one problem:

Almost three million of that would've had to have been a full boycott of the game, leaving the real departure to the Charlie Kirk Satanist Memorial Event somewhere around 2 - 2 1/2 million.

So, verdict?

It might well be a victory for MAGA, but it will be very overstated on their part.  

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And what was being talked about in there, Commissioner Goodell?

 

SCOOP @PuckNews:

Media executives in NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s box at Super Bowl:

* Mathias Dopfner (CEO of Axel Springer)
* Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google)
* Neal Mohan (CEO of YouTube)
* Ted Sarandos (CEO of Netflix)
* David Ellison (CEO of Paramount)
* Josh D'Amaro…

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 9, 2026

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: I was wrong -- they went kayfabe.

Did not watch any of the game -- no, no support of the MAGA boycotts, etc. and so forth.  Just sick of a lot of crap (mostly RL) and decided to spend the day relaxing until the fucking neighbors decided no one around them is worthy of such a privilege.

quietly fumes about that    

29-13 Seattle.  That was about how a lot of people felt it was going to go.

So I'm left with the same question I had last year:  Why did you push New England so blatantly, and then leave them at the door just as blatantly.

I'll check on plays and the like in a bit.   But one thing is, hence, clear:  The eventual decision was to try to line the pockets of the NFL by increasing the value of the Seahawks -- and all the "THE NFL IS WOKE!!!!" screaming from MAGA probably was the final kicker.

To give you an idea of how bad it got for the normal rigging?  We have the first running back as a Super Bowl MVP since Terrell Davis of the Broncos over the Packers in 1998.  Kenneth Walker III was named the MVP -- and it appears the Seattle kicker (SB record 5 FGs plus the two extra points) would've won, had the NFL not disqualified him for being a kicker.

So now we wait for the ratings numbers. 

Super Bowl ICE: Some numbers at 8 PM PST the night before...

Seattle -4.5 has solidified all across Vegas, according to vegasinsider.com -- various juices are still invoked, but the -4.5 has held since late the evening of the conference championship games.

Total is 45.5 across the board, basically standard juice everywhere, with maybe one or two exceptions.

Moneyline is Seattle -235 - -250, New England +185, with as high as +200 at the likes of the MGM and the Hard Rock.  With all applicable disclaimers:  If they're giving you a flat 2-1 that New England wins this Super Bowl, YOU TAKE IT!!!!   

And the Prediction Markets:

Kalshi and Polymarket are still 68-32, as it pretty much has been since the matchup was set up.