Ratings: Football Tackles the Sunday Night Demos

Sunday's ratings summary: 7 pm/ET The CW's In Harm's Way surged eight percent from its premiere to deliver 729,000 total viewers. 8 pm Extreme Makeover eked out a W, scoring 11.26 million viewers to the first hour of Sunday Night Football's 11.16 mil. The onset of Fox's baseball coverage (9.5 mil) edged out Amazing Race (9.17 mil), while Episode 2 of the CW's Valentine (1.01 mil) felt only slightly less love than its debut. NBC's coverage of the Patriots-Chargers game averaged 11.2 mil through 11 pm, and topped everyone except the Housewives in the demos. Baseball averaged 8.5 mil over its first two hours. 9 pm Desperate Housewives dominated with 15.3 million, more or less on par with a week ago. Cold Case gained 200K to place third with 10.9 mil. The CW's Easy Money (753,000) saw 30 percent of its premiere audience cash out. 10 pm Football sneaked past Brothers & Sisters (10.1 mil), which was down 500 thou. The Unit (9.12 mil) dropped 14 percent.