Huge Turnout for MNF as Pats Trounce Jets

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Despite rapidly devolving into an ass-whipping of the highest order, last night’s installment of Monday Night Football kept viewers riveted to their TV sets.

For Jets fans, it must have been like witnessing a hideous car wreck from which they could not look away; while for Patriots partisans, the shellacking of Rex Ryan’s charges on the home turf of Gillette Stadium had to have been the sweetest kind of overkill.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings data, ESPN’s presentation of the Patriots-Jets blowout averaged 16.5

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