Last night the impossible happened. We finally got a good Thursday Night Football game between the Eagles and the Packers. This one was a much better performance than the dreadful 10-3 opening night game put on by the Bears and the Packers, or the 20-14 game between the Bucs and the Panthers, or the 20-7 game from last week that saw the Jags take down the Titans. This one was much better than those three.

If you can recall from last year’s week 4 TNF game between the Vikings and the Rams, it was a really good game that ended in a 38-31 victory for L.A. Same can be said for last night’s 34-27 Eagles victory over the Cheeseheads.

From NFL Communications:

“Last night’s Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum game featuring the Philadelphia Eagles’ 34-27 win over the Green Bay Packers was seen by an average audience of 18.6 million across all platforms, including FOX, NFL Network, FOX Deportes, NFL digital, FOX Sports digital, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch and Yahoo Sports.”

“The 18.6 million viewers for Eagles-Packers across all platforms is up +25% versus the 2018 11-game FOX Thursday Night Football average and up +23% versus last year’s Week 4 Thursday Night Football matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams.”

“Eagles-Packers is the second most-watched game since FOX began broadcasting Thursday Night Football in 2018, behind the New Orleans Saints-Dallas Cowboys matchup in Week 13 last season (22.2 million).”

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody. Two major markets, two nationally-known teams, two teams that have had recent success, two good quarterbacks, numbers such as these were to be expected for a big TNF matchup between these two and it 100% delivered, all the way to the very end.