A.J. Perez

USA TODAY Sports

Sunday night’s New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys broadcast on NBC netted the highest overnight ratings for a regular-season primetime game — excluding Week 1 broadcasts — in nearly three years.

The Giants’ 10-7 victory over their NFC East rival secured a 16.5 rating and 26 share, NBC announced on Monday. These are the best ratings since the Week 17 game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Cowboys in 2013 (16.8/28) in 2013 and topped last season’s Week 14 game (New England Patriots-Houston Texans) by 19%.

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The broadcast peaked as the Cowboys come back attempt scuffled between 11-11:30 pm ET with a 17.2 rating and 31 share. The share is the percentage of televisions in use tuned into a particular broadcast.

The game had a 42.3 rating and 62 share in the Dallas market, the best ever showing for a Cowboys Sunday Night Football broadcast.

NBC flexed Sunday’s upcoming Cowboys-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game into primetime, a move that replaced Cincinnati Bengals-Pittsburgh Steelers game that had been on the schedule. CBS will carry the Bengals-Steelers game at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.

CBS announced it earned an average overnight rating of 11.3 with a 22 share for its regionalized NFL broadcasts on Sunday. (It was Fox's turn to broadcast a doubleheader on Sunday.) That rating was the highest for a so-called "singleheader" game window this season for CBS.

Fox's America’s Game of the Week, seen by most of the country, was the late afternoon contest between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers. Fox announced an overnight rating of 15.7 with a 29 share for the Packers' 38-10 blowout victory.