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.
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…
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… more ›