Super Bowl Monday? Should Day After Super Bowl Be a National Holiday?
One Fantasy Football website owner thinks so, and so far more than 13,000 people agree.
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According to a petition on the White House website, more than 111 million American citizens watched the Super Bowl last year. So what does that do to the Monday following? Apparently it leaves it very unproductive for American businesses.
The Fantasy Football website 4for4.com thinks the most logical thing to do would be to just go ahead and make it a national holiday. The public's help is being sought to do so.
A petition drive was launched on the White House website on Jan. 24, 2013 to this effect. The petition reads:
In 2012, an estimated 111 million American citizens watched the Super Bowl, making it the most-viewed television broadcast in history and one of the largest location-independent gatherings of American people to date.
We at 4for4.com Fantasy Football petition the Obama Administration to consider declaring the Monday following Super Bowl Sunday a national holiday. By doing so, the Obama Administration can promote camaraderie among the American people, keep the streets safer for our children on Sunday night and Monday morning, promote a productive workplace when work resumes on Tuesday, and honor the most popular event in modern American culture.
In order to be considered, 86,665 people need to sign on in support by Feb. 23, 2013. By Saturday, the petition had the support of more than 13,000 people. If you want to throw your weight behind this idea, click here to sign the petition. You do, however, have to create a White House account in order to do so.
Would you like a national holiday declared for the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday? After all, sitting on the couch drinking beer and eating wings all day can be exhausting.
Glenn
9:01 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Oppose. Just another government holiday where folks with private sector jobs will have to work. Only a minority of American's are NFL fans. No justification here.
Maria Navarro
11:57 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
If they make it a holiday it should be at NO PAY!!!! Holidays are supposed to honor accomplishments...I definitely NOT see a football game as that!!☺
jim armstrong
9:18 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Of course not. sheesh. We have the rare oppertunity to see millionaires working for billionaires knockeach others brains out. Enjoy it, probably one or all of the following will happen to the players eventually: 1. When they leave the game, retired, kicked out for some reason, or injured by the game, probably 85% will be broke within 5 yrs. 2. Probably half of them will have suffered some sort of debilitating injury, and have a horrible life of pain and suffering. and opn and on. They are NOT any sembalance of the 'American dream'. Some are freaks of nature that have been cultured for sports participation by those who suck them dry in the process. It's hardly an excuse to honor them with a national holiday. Save that for those who have actually contributed to this nation, not entertained it.
Remember, sport was conceived as a substitute for war, something we are supposed to be striving to end. watch the game and be entertained by enhanced performance freaks, then on monday go to work and be happy it wasn't YOUR brain that got the snot beat out of it. Hell, the only way you will remember who won, is when the media keeps reminding you every year/month/week/day from now on.
Bill Palmer
8:42 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Gosh, I thought I was reading about the gladiatorial contests in Ancient Rome....sounds very similar, doesn't it. I agree, the "Super Bowl" (perhaps we should next have a Super Dooper Bowl) is all that you describe, and worse I suspect. The answer is not only NO but HELL NO to a holiday.
Maria Navarro
11:55 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
totally agree with you!!
John B
9:43 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
More people watched the Superbowl last year than voted for POTUS....as much as I love football I don't think we need to manufacture another holiday. We have enough of those. Many employers offer floating holidays for their folks in addition to vacation time. This gives employees an opportunity to celebrate things that may be important to them that's not on the calendar.......
jim armstrong
10:01 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
We could go in the other direction, give proof that you are a genuine fanatic for a sport and you get the day after the world/US national championship in that sport off, with no pay of course (that could be part of the proof that you are truely a fanatic).
Vanzetta Evans
10:31 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
I worked at a TV station where the Monday after the Super Bowl ALL of the men who worked the morning or 9am shift always took vacation time the day after the Super Bowl. Those were always our top rated shows of the year. ;-)
marie
3:44 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
I signed the petition!!
Michael Brown
4:08 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
I vote yes because on Monday after the event,most people don't go to work anyway. Some kids dont go to school because they travel to see the event. Almost everything shuts down on TV four the super bowl. I love the NBA but there are no games while the super bowl is going on so yes I vote to make it a National Holliday.
Maria Navarro
11:54 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
why would this be a holiday???? A celebration of violence done in the name of "sport" and for several years now, the halftime show is most definitely not family oriented, just a strip show. So, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, no holiday!!
bobby black
1:59 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
No way should it be a holiday. Sometimes I watch some of it, sometimes not. One thing I do not watch is NBA games. If they cannot find something else to fill these time spots, maybe they should just run their test pattern. Just a bunch of goons running down the court and dropping the ball down into the basket.Takes no skill, just being 7-8 feet tall.
Good Grief Y'all
6:40 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
No. Football is a sport, not a national achievement, and a lot of time is already devoted to it. Enjoy it while it's going on and go back to life afterward. I feel badly for the parents of sons who feel pressured to allow their children to be brutalized, and for the sons of parents who let them be. I hope the sport will be made safer. Many enjoy the game, but it is too violent. I don't have sons, but I have a grandson and I hope his personal participation will be in something other than football.