The Philadelphia Eagles’ 21-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs drew better than 29 million viewers across all platforms, the most for a Monday Night Football telecast in 27 years. The last time MNF drew a bigger audience was in November 1996, when 31.5 million people watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the Green Bay Packers.

The game delivered the biggest audience of any NFL game so far this season, although that mark that will likely only stand for a few days. …

For the season so far, Monday Night Football — which has simulcast games on ABC for all but two weeks (when the network and ESPN carried separate games) — is averaging about 16.65 million viewers per week, a 26 percent jump over the same point last season.

[I’m mostly kidding about the Taylor Swift influence, but I’d bet that’s at least a small part of it. Getting it back on ABC rather than just over cable at ESPN has to help. It also helps that this game was meaningful: two top teams, a Super Bowl rematch, and a real squeaker of a game all helps. And so do the NFL’s efforts to dial down the politics. — Ed]