The Broncos Wild Card win over Pittsburgh on Sunday drew the largest television crowd of any opening-round NFL playoff game since 1988 (26.7; Seattle-Houston; 1/3/88. The broadcast posted a 25.9 overnight Nielsen rating and a 43 share nationally according to CBS and Nielsen Research.

Those numbers equate to nearly 42 million viewers watching the Broncos earn the 29-23 overtime victory.

The rating reflects the percentage of all televisions in a market that are tuned into a particular program, while the share is the percentage of televisions in use that are turned in to the program.