Around the NFL: Super Bowl Thread

[CrustyRedskin]

Originally Posted by los panda

super bowl monday should to be a federal holiday

Well if you combined MLK day and Rebert E. Lees birthday,and bumped them both down to Super Bowl Monday, everybody is a winner. I think we might have something here Panda. Im writting my congressman right now.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by los panda

super bowl monday should to be a federal holiday

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.

[Ruhskins]

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.

I agree with this and never understood why they won't change it. And the worst thing is that they have the Superbowl late on Sunday.

[CrazyCanuck]

Five Super Bowl Records that Will Never Be Broken: Fan Reaction - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

"There have been many great running backs who have showcased their talents in the Super Bowl. Franco Harris, Emmitt Smith and Marcus Allen have all shone on the biggest stage in the NFL. But no individual rushing performance has topped Timmy Smith's 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII for the Washington Redskins. He is the only person to have more than 200 yards on the ground in a Super Bowl, eclipsing Allen's record of 191 yards set just four years earlier for the Los Angeles Raiders."

[Alvin Walton]

+1 on the super bowl needs to be on a Saturday.
Why do they have the damn thing on a work night?

[MTK]

I guess Super Bowl Saturday doesn't have the same ring to it.

I'd definitely love to see it happen. The Monday after the SB is notorious for people calling in sick for work.

[CrustyRedskin]

Originally Posted by CrazyCanuck

Five Super Bowl Records that Will Never Be Broken: Fan Reaction - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

"There have been many great running backs who have showcased their talents in the Super Bowl. Franco Harris, Emmitt Smith and Marcus Allen have all shone on the biggest stage in the NFL. But no individual rushing performance has topped Timmy Smith's 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII for the Washington Redskins. He is the only person to have more than 200 yards on the ground in a Super Bowl, eclipsing Allen's record of 191 yards set just four years earlier for the Los Angeles Raiders."

20th Anniversary of "The Quarter" -...

[Higskin]

Just had a kind of weird thought. Devin Thomas has an opportunity to get a ring.

[redskin29633]

Originally Posted by CrustyRedskin

20th Anniversary of "The Quarter" - YouTube

Oh boy, that was fun! Thanks for posting! And thank you Dan Reeves for putting your DB's on an island for us. On Smith's TD run, it almost looked like Jacoby did not have anyone to block! Great memory!:cool-smil

[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.

[tryfuhl]

Ugh working in retail having the SB on Saturday night would blow

[los panda]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

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.

using that argument, i think it has just as much right as new years day

[mooby]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

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.

Really? You assume that #1 is the only reason for putting the SB on Saturday night? I don't think it matters whether Saturday is a prime slot or not, you could put the SB on on a Wednesday night and people would still watch it. The more people segment I'm referring to would be parents of kids who allow them to stay up later on a Saturday than on a Sunday night, since Sunday night is a school night. If the game was on Saturday, parents wouldn't be so concerned about letting their kids stay up a little late.

As far as the getting wasted argument goes, I'm pretty sure the number of people who call out of work is big enough that you could justify putting it on a Saturday night. So while the whole getting wasted argument doesn't sound pretty, it is what it is. How many people do you know that decline the opportunity to go to a SB party and have some drinks just because they have work in the morning?

[Alvin Walton]

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[skinsfaninok]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

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He's right though