Around the NFL: Super Bowl Thread

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by mooby

I think the SB should be on a Saturday night. More people would watch it, and it would give everybody a day to recover before they go back to work. I wish I knew what national attendance figures for work looked like the day after the SB.

Approximately 100 million folks in the US watch the Super Bowl on Sunday night at 6:30 EST every year. So, now many more would watch on Saturday night? Check TV ratings and you will find that Saturday night is not a prime TV slot.

Let's check the arguments you might make to your Congressthing to make Super Bowl Monday a Federal Holiday:

1. I get wasted on Sunday night and I need a day off.

2. "crickets"...

Now there is a motivation for an elected official to start a movement to create another Federal Holiday. Last time I checked, the Hedonism Party in the US did not elect a whole lot of folks to the Congress.