Not according to Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas#United_States

Give them a few minutes, then you'll see this on ESPN.com:

This is why I like European soccer - every team plays every other team home and away, and the team with the best record at the end is the champion. Then they have their cups, in which the lesser teams get their shot at a trophy. But they don't pretend that a team that finished with the 10th best record in the league…

Unless I'm misreading your chart, that's essentially the situation you have now - that game got a 24, the Giants-Eagles Week 4 game (seems laughable to consider that game "meaningful" now, though it was for first place at the time) got the 25, and no other game got more than a 16.

Ha!

But should anything come close to that game? Very few regular season games have ever been more watchable, and the ratings bore that out. Three hours of a close win or go home game between two longtime rivals, serving as the exciting buildup to probably the second greatest DERP moment of Tony Romo's career (#1 being…

So good. +1

Andy Reid hired as Chiefs head coach

Craig James' stats at SMU were fairly consistent, which supports your hypothesis.

I'm pretty sure EA rigged the final Madden cover vote in 2011, because they didn't want Vick on there. They'll figure out a way to get Alabama or another school on there even if Penn State gets twice as many votes.

+1 > Tebow

Let's also remember that Tebow chose to be traded to the Jets instead of the Jags: http://deadspin.com/5896492/the-broncos-took-a-smaller-trade-haul-just-to-make-tim-tebow-happy

The media firestorm wasn't generated by Sanchez, it was started by Carroll because he chose to air his opinion during the press conference where Sanchez announced he was leaving U$C. We can argue all day about whether he was correct in his opinion or not (staying all four years certainly didn't prevent Matt Leinart…

Very well done. +1

Absolutely. As horrible as Sandy Hook was, the victims will represent approximately one tenth of one percent of the gun deaths in America in 2012. One month in the urban center of any of the major metropolitan areas of this country (New York, Chicago, LA, etc.) will easily produce more victims, and generate no more…

+unibrow

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Yes!

If they liked that, they should definitely find a copy of ESPN the Magazine, with the picture of Clay watering the lawn.

Well said. Other examples: