For as long as there has been Super Bowls (at least in my 28 years on this earth) the Super Bowl has been played on a Sunday, the traditional day of football, the end of the week (or beginning of a new depending how you look at it), but why for the Grand Daddy of them all would you make it a Sunday???!!! All across North America there will be Super Bowl parties galore. Bars stools will have big fat American's asses firmly planted in them from 11 a.m. until close and I'm sure there are some establishments that will open a little early so that any patrons who wish to partake in pregame banter and watch the know it all's talk about each teams journey to this point. What I don't understand though is why is HAS to be Sunday? This is a one day, winner take all show, so why does the day have to be Sunday? People want to drink and enjoy themselves and they do! The fact that the biggest sporting event of the year is on a Sunday, when most of the world has to get up and work the next day, doesn't seem to stop people from fully involving themselves in the festivities. On average 6% of people (American Statistic Only) call in sick on the Monday following the Super Bowl. That's over 18,000 people, approximately 350 per state! Some states in American would shut down with that many people home sick for the day! Other sports do not limit their grand prize being handed out to just one day, granted not all sports are a one game winner take all; most are your traditional 7 games series. TV contracts and other things come into the equation as well and in a 7 game series you never know how many games it might go or when the prize will be won. This past summer the World Cup was played and the final match was on a Sunday. Why??!! Why must the sporting world do this to the public. All we want to do is enjoy watching our favorite sports team, or sport, enjoy the company we are in, maybe a few cocktails and not have to worry about going to work the next day! If you are reading this and you say "Well Angry Sports Fan, how about you just not drink?" Then I say to you, don't be ridiculous you killjoy! Learn to have some fun, enjoy life, get tanked during the Super Bowl! I'm not suggesting much, I'm just simply saying why not make the Super Bowl on a Thursday (as 7.5% of people call in sick on a Friday anyways, even when they are not sick) or even better a Friday or a Saturday. I can understand viewership overall for tv drops significantly on a Friday or Saturday, but it's the FREAK'N Super Bowl!!!! I am pretty sure you could host the Super Bowl in Alaska at 3 a.m. and it would still sell out, the ratings would still be astronomical and you'd still get the Black Eye'd Peas to play the half time show, but that's another Angry Rant...stupid Black Eye'd Peas.
Dear NFL,
Consider my argument I have made above. Traditions are made to be broken or adjusted. Throw this one in the trash like the Patriots threw their Super Bowl hopes in the trash. People love the Super Bowl, but I know that every year there are thousands of people standing around the water cooler saying "I really wish the game was on Saturday, I'm going to be sooooo hung over on Monday.", while others will just simply say "I'm not coming to work on Monday, I'll be tooooo hung over." If you listen to me and move the game I guarantee you will still get the same ratings, make the same in revenue (if not more) and the economy will benefit with the reduced number of employees sick on the Monday following. This isn't just a blog NFL, this is a revolution, I'm helping to stimulate the economy and keep America Productive. Suck it Barack!
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