The 60th Super Bowl drew, as usual, a gigantic audience — but it had to settle for coming in just behind last year’s record-setting telecast. NBC and Peacock’s telecast of Super Bowl LX — a lopsided, 29-13 victory for the Seattle Seahawks over the New England Patriots — averaged 124.93 million viewers, based on Nielsen’s final same-day ratings (the numbers also include Telemundo’s Spanish language broadcast and streaming on other NBCUniversal and NFL digital outlets). That’s off a scant 2 percent from Super Bowl LIX in 2025, which set an all-time U.S. audience record of 127.71 million viewers across Fox, Tubi, Telemundo and NFL digital properties. NBC did set an all-time record for peak viewership, with 137.8 million viewers from 7:45-8 p.m. ET, during the game’s second quarter. The halftime show starring Bad Bunny scored higher than the game as a whole with 128.2 million viewers, also down a bit (4 percent) from the 133.5 million viewers for Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance a year ago. The halftime show racked up huge numbers on social media, recording a …