nfl tv ratings: cowboys vs. packers
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NFL TV ratings from Wild Card Weekend will be slowly coming out over the next few days, but we know that the Green Bay Packers 48-32 win over the Dallas Cowboys had viewership numbers that blew away the best numbers from last season.

Fox announced that the game got 40 million viewers, which beat the 33.21 million that the New York Giants vs. Minnesota Vikings game pulled in last season.

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The most-watched Wild Card weekend game, Detroit Lions vs. Dallas Cowboys, drew 42.320 million on Fox in 2015.

Sunday’s Packers/Cowboys game peaked at 43.3, according to Fox, but 40 was the average number of viewers.

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