Obama-Romney debate has baseball, football competition

David Jackson

The debate hall at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- We can imagine one of the first questions President Obama will have for staff members right after tonight's debate with Mitt Romney:

Anybody got a Bears score?

Tonight's Monday Night Football game between Obama's Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions -- Romney's local team as he grew up in Michigan -- is only one big sports event competing with tonight's debate.

In baseball, the San Francisco Giants host the St. Louis Cardinals in the deciding seventh game of the National League Championship Series. The winner faces the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, which will start Wednesday night.

The competing sports events may well cut into the ratings for the debate.

The first faceoff between Obama and Romney on Oct. 3 drew 67.2 million views, according to the Nielsen ratings.

The second debate scored 65.6 million television viewers.

Will this one crack 60 million, given the competition?

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