Should the Monday After the Superbowl be a National Holiday?

[BeatleBoot]

Should the Monday after the Superbowl be made a National Holiday?

[fasttense]

1. We can't get a holiday to vote, why should you have a holiday

for a stupid football game?

[daleanime]

11. What? A holiday for voting? Do you want everyone involved?

just a bit of :sarcasm:

[stray cat]

2. Maybe you can call in sick and take a day without pay?

[peekaloo]

3. Yes. A religious holiday of purging and flogging. nt.

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[niyad]

19. welcome to DU

[old mark]

5. Not so much because of the game, but because of all the booze consumed

by the audience. I imagine there will be a very low turnout at work and many of those working would have been better off staying home.

Never buy any product made that day.

mark

[igfoth]

6. Sure Why Not!

I support any and all national holiday's as long as I get a paid day off!

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Now, THAT is a sane perspective.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking wouldn't work

The purpose of professional sports is to give you something to pretend you're an expert on the next day, to take the tedium out of your job. All vacation should, in fact, be forbidden the day after major sports events, so that the audience for the bloviating is as large as possible.

[BeatleBoot]

9. Good point.

I would miss all of the parroting of SportsTalk radio going on by my co-workers.

[itsrobert]

8. Depends on the teams playing. I see no need this year.

What a disappointing game: Saints vs Colts.

[iamjoy]

24. Saints = Not Disappointing

Now I am no fan of the New Orleans Saints - I really don't care much about the NFL anyway. But, considering that New Orleans was devastated just over four years ago (and still hasn't totally recovered) and considering that their team has never been to the SuperBowl, I think it's interesting at least.

Of course, if your team were playing it wouldn't be disappointing to you.

As to the original question, I don't see any reason for it to be a national holiday. It might be wise for school districts to make it a teacher work day. This would be helpful on the East Coast, when kids who stayed up to watch the game come to school too tired (or focused on the game) to learn. I'm sure teachers would appreciate the quieter time, too. But nationally, there are far better things to commemorate than when which rich team owner got more money because his well paid athletes were better at knocking each other down and moving a ball down a field. If governors want to declare it a holiday in their state, let them. But again, there are far better things to observe.

[madrchsod]

10. i voted yes but-----

i`m retired so everyday is a holiday!

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Please, when is the Superbowl this year?

Next weekend?

[11 Bravo]

16. As of 10:23 am EST, it's in 7 days, 8 hours and 1 minute.

[Myrina]

14. why don't they just play it on a Friday or Saturday then?

:shrug:

[rucky]

15. Why the heck not? We could use more paid holidays.

[rurallib]

23. Agreed - Friday night or Saturday afternoon.

[AndyA]

17. A holiday because of a STUPID football game?

Professional sports is bullshit. Today's "sports heroes" are dog abusing, women abusing, drug addicted pieces of shit. Hardly the people to set an example for today's youth.

Sportsmanship doesn't exist any longer; only huge salaries, spoiled players, and corrupt owners.

:puke:

[niyad]

20. +1,000,000

[donheld]

25. +1

[Better Believe It]

18. Yes. A paid holiday of course. And add the first Tuesday in every month!

[MindPilot]

21. Only if the day after Halloween is too. n/t

[Jennicut]

22. No. I managed to go to work the next day after watching the Patriots win 3 Super-bowls.

I dragged my ass out of bed and got to work. It is football...I can think of way more meaningful holidays. I am a big football fan but that would be stupid. Got a hangover? Eat some toast and take some Tylenol.

[Dappleganger]

26. Yes, because we don't have enough holidays w/paid time off...

and eating too many chicken wings makes me want to sleep forever.

BTW, dh and I never appreciated mandatory holidays so much until he lost all of his vacation due to being laid off (he's a contractor now). They give him just a couple of paid holidays a year, but if the plant closes and it's not paid for by his contractor it comes out of OUR pocket and he has to work overtime to make it up.

[HopeHoops]

27. You needed a "FUCK NO!" option.

:puke:

[Individualist]

28. Only after my birthday is made a national holiday.

[OhioChick]

29. Hell No...

A holiday for a bunch of overpaid athletes?

:wtf: