percentage were on. Not only did people want to show off their TVs, they were still very much a novelty in 1953.

If you get 15% of them tuned in to the game at four people per set that gets you to the 30 million number I referenced. Given larger family sizes at the time, four per set might be a low number.

Whatever rating system was in use at the time had the game drawing 60 million viewers. I don’t think Duff Tittle and Brent Pyne just made the number up.

I allow for inaccuracies. I even allowed for it overstating actual viewers by twice as many as actually watched. That still gets a huge number.

Laughing is just ignoring history and the way things were in 1953.