The NFL doesn't need trickery to outdraw baseball. Any game will do, as Sunday's Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, between the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills showed. The exhibition opener — and the NBC debut of the Al Michaels-Cris Collinsworth team — attracted 61% more viewers opposite a contest that counted: The New York Yankees completing a four-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox. Of course, the NFL had the significant broadcast-vs.-cable edge.
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