For the second time this year, Sunday Night Football got trounced in the ratings, and this time, it had nothing to do with politics.

The Sunday night game between the Eagles and Cowboys got crushed in the ratings by Game 5 of the World Series. According to the Sports Business Journal, the Indians-Cubs game pulled in a 15.3 overnight rating, which was 32 percent better than 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 game was a thriller that Dallas won 29-23 in overtime.

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 head-to-head until 2010, 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 Classic.

Before this year, the only time a World Series game had outdrawn an SNF game came in 2011, when the Saints blew out the Colts 62-7 in a game that only drew a 8.3 national rating. The World Series drew a 10.1 rating that night.

The closest a World Series game had ever come to beating SNF since then came in 2013 when a Packers-Vikings game drew 16.8 million viewers, barely beating out the 16 million 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 drew 23 million viewers 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 SNF got beat in the ratings. However, it's also possible that it's a one-year aberration as the game went up against a potentially series-clinching Game 5 that could've ended the Indians' 68-year title drought and extended the Cubs' drought.

Anyway, SNF also got rolled in the ratings earlier this year when it went up against a presidential debate. A Packers Week 4 game against the Giants drew a 10.2 rating, which was nowhere near the 37.2 rating that the debate drew.

In an interview during the NFL's meetings in mid-October, NFL commissioner 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 said on Oct. 19. "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."