This chart shows you why the NFL is the only thing that matters on TV Chief Correspondent covering media and technology The 2026 Super Bowl will be the most-watched TV program of the year. The rest of the NFL will also dominate the ratings charts. Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images On TV, there's football, and then there's everything else. The ratings gap between NFL games and everything else gets bigger and bigger every year. So at some point, does it make sense for TV programmers to pay for anything that isn't an NFL game? Do you watch TV? Then the odds are very, very high that you're watching the NFL. Television networks still show things that aren't NFL games, but NFL games are the most popular things on TV, by a very wide margin. This isn't news: Periodically, a news event reminds us of the NFL's dominance of the TV landscape — like the deal Disney's ESPN cut with the league last year , done in large part to secure a few more NFL games.…