Speaking of The Race Card: NFL Week 2 Ratings...

So, from Sports Media Watch, here's Week 2, and a bit of a cleaner look as to whether we are looking at an NFL boycott in 2017...

• CBS Single Slot:  Down 24% from last year's FOX Week 2 single slot in both viewers and ratings.  (Led by New England-New Orleans in about 40% of the markets.)
• FOX Doubleheader:  The national slot was Denver-Dallas.  And, although Denver came away with a dominating victory, one has to start wondering, given the early numbers across the board, if Dallas is being explored as the eventual champions on at least the circle that they may be the only ratings draw the NFL has.  (In which case, at least one angle the right-wingers could use is that Jerry Jones has been highly public of the fact that any Cowboy who protests the Anthem won't be a Cowboy anymore.)
• The national window was up 17% ratings, 22% viewers over CBS' from last year.  Down a tick or two from two years ago, but that is promising.
• The regional window, however, was down 7% ratings, 6% viewers.
• Thursday Night was an NFL Network exclusive game.  So this game was compared to the first NFL Network-only game from last year (Week 4), and was marginally higher (1% ratings, 2% viewers).  Viewers were about half last year's first Thursday Night non-opener, but that game was also on CBS.
• Sunday Night's Packers/Falcons showdown was not well-received.  Down 11% in ratings and viewers from the Packers' loss to Minnesota to open THEIR new stadium.  Lowest-rated Week 2 Sunday night game in nearly a decade.
• And some bad news for TO if he wants to continue dancing on Dancing With The Stars after Cheryl Burke successfully used him as a prop for Week 1:  Monday Night Football ratings at least held the line, up 1% in each measure, this week.  The ratings increase is attributed to viewers 50 and up:  the main demographics lost ground, the 50+ crowd was 8% up.