The AFC Championship game on CBS drew the strongest ratings for the conference's title game in 24 years.
Overnight Nielsen figures showed the game had the highest percentage of households (31.3 percent in the 56 top TV markets) since NBC's 1987 broadcast of the Denver Broncos defeating the Cleveland Browns in the AFC title tilt (31.9 percent).
Brian McCarthy, the National Football League's vice president of communications,
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