Chiefs vs. Eagles Super Bowl Averages 113M Viewers; 3rd-Most Watched TV Show Ever

Sunday night's thrilling Super Bowl did numbers.

According to Fox, the Kansas City Chiefs' 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles earned the third-highest television ratings in history:

The Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show starring Rihanna also was hugely popular, bringing in an average of 118.7 million viewers across television and digital properties, per Fox.

That made it the most-watched halftime show since Katy Perry and the infamous Left Shark in 2015 and gave it the second-highest ratings in recorded Super Bowl history.

Finally, Fox noted that Super Bowl LVII was the most-streamed Super Bowl in history, bringing in 7 million streams.

The game lived up to the hype, with Patrick Mahomes leading a game-winning field-goal drive as time expired to top the Eagles. The game pitted the two best teams from the regular season, with each compiling 14-3 records and topping their respective conferences.

The game wasn't without its controversies, namely a third-down defensive holding call against James Bradberry on the game's final drive that gave the Chiefs a first down and allowed them to run out the clock before kicking the game-winning field goal.

Bradberry, to his credit, said he thought the refs got the call right.

"It was a holding," he told reporters. "I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide."

The field conditions were also incredibly poor with players appearing to slip regularly throughout the game. Eagles guard Jordan Mailata called the field "pretty slippery," and compared it to "playing on a water park."

"We can't control the field," Mailata added. "We just have to accept the reality of the situation and whoever can perform the best wins the game and we fell short."

The field was poor, but the game itself was excellent and the ratings reflected that.