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Super Bowl Monday

Monday, February 4, 2013

Super Bowl Monday? Should Day After Football's Biggest Game 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…

Rusty Taylor

1:07 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013

If you are going to make that a holiday then you might as well make the day after the last game of the World Series a holiday as well AND don't forget the NBA!!   more ›

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