The Super Bowl the most watched TV Show

Amidst all the pondering of why the 2010 Super Bowl was the most watched TV show ever has been the much missed, but most likely reason why.

This year’s Super Bowl was a time for a nation of people suffering from economic strain to gather around an entertaining event FOR LITTLE or NO MONEY. So it was kind of the perfect storm for the NFL and the network that broadcast it.

This is not dissimilar to the economic conditions of 1983 and the perfect storm that came along for the final episode of M*A*S*H, which, as we all know by now, was the most watch television show in history, until February 7, 2010