I've written this before and I'll write it again because it makes too much sense not to.
The day after the Super Bowl should be a holiday. We give ourselves to the NFL like we give ourselves to no other sport, as the television ratings attest. And then, Sunday night, it ends. And like that, we have to move on to whatever comes next.
Why not give us one day to adjust? Why not declare Super Bowl Monday a national holiday? Why not give us 24 hours to recover from the game and from the season, to sleep in or play a little touch football or look at game highlights from September?
Somebody will complain that the business of America is business and we should be out there producing and if we create a holiday for Super Bowl Sunday why not create a holiday for the day after the Daytona 500, NCAA men's basketball tournament and World Series.
Let's be practical. We don't have to create holidays for the other sports. But we should at least consider it.
It's enough to make me dread the Super Bowl because I know what's coming-a sudden and abrupt to end to football (the pro-bowl just isn't really anything to watch, that's more for the players I've always felt like). I never know what to do with myself on Sundays for several weeks after football season ends. September can't come soon enough.
Posted by: C. | January 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
The best thing I have heard yet would be to move it to Saturday. Then the parties can go into the wee hours, and no one misses work.
Posted by: panthersnbraves | January 30, 2009 at 01:49 PM
Amen to moving the game to Saturday. That's a no-brainer to everyone except the hotels and bars in the city hosting it.
Posted by: 309-18-1,2 | January 30, 2009 at 03:34 PM
In my family, we have a sayingfor Septrmber. "Our long national nightmare is over"
Posted by: Rags | January 31, 2009 at 07:05 AM
Saturday it a no-brainer..Look how wonderful it was to have the Panthers-Cardinals on Saturday night here a couple weeks ago.Panthers-Cowboys a couple years ago.Great atmosphere.
We could all recover on Sunday,go to church, watch the game again on TIVO and listen to all of the talking heads dissect every play.
I have a dream.Let the NCAA see the light and have a college tournament/playoff that ends on the weekend between the division playoffs and the Super Bowl.Bowling and extreme snowboarding didn't fill the void last weekend.
Posted by: DK | February 01, 2009 at 09:31 AM