For the second time this year, got trounced in the ratings, and this time, it had nothing to do with politics. The Sunday night game between the and got crushed in the ratings by Game 5 of the World Series. According to the , the Indians-Cubs game pulled in a 15.3 overnight rating, which was 32 percent better than Isaiah Stewart Jersey the 11.6 rating for the Cowboys game. Although it's not completely shocking that this happened -- after all, the World Series is pitting a team that hasn't won it all since 1908 against a team that hasn't won it all since 1948 -- it is kind of surprising that a game featuring one of the NFL's marquee teams (the Cowboys) was trounced in the ratings. Especially since the . The World Series ratings win marks the first time that MLB's premier event has ever beaten the NFL in the ratings on a Sunday night. The two didn't start going , when the NFL scheduled a Sunday night game that was going to he held at the same time as the World Series. Before that, the NFL would generally skip one Sunday night per year in deference to the Fall Mason Plumlee Jersey Cla sic. Before this year, the only time a World Series game had outdrawn an SNF game came in 2011, when Louis King Jersey the Saints blew out the Colts 62-7 in a game that . The World Series drew a 10.1 rating that night. The closest a World Series game had ever come to beating since then came in 2013 when a Packers-Vikings game drew 16.8 million viewers, barely that watched Game 4 of the Red Sox-Cardinals World Series. In seven head-to-head match-ups since 2010, the NFL is up 5-2. As recently as last year, the NFL had crushed the World Series. In 2015, a Packers-Broncos game compared to 17.3 million for the World Series. With the NFL in a ratings slide this y ear, there's probably some concern in the league office that got beat in the ratings. However, it's also po sible that it's a one-year aberration as the game went up against a potentially series-clinching Game 5 that could've ended the ' 68-year title drought and extended the ' Bruce Brown Jr. Jersey drought. Anyway, also got rolled in the ratings earlier this year when it went up against a presidential debate. A Week 4 game against the drew a 10.2 rating, which was nowhere . In an interview during the NFL' Khyri Thomas Jersey s meetings in mid-October, NFL commi sioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that the league's TV ratings were down, but also emphasized that no one in the league office is panicking. "We see tremendous strength in our numbers, but we also know that two prime-time games that were seeing the most dramatic decrease went straight up against two very significant debates," Goodell . "Another one of our prime-time games on Thursday night was on the NFL Network as opposed to a network broadcast, which will always get a lower rating."
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