Super Bowl Saturday not a bad concept
Teen launches petition to move event off of Sunday
There is a petition underway on Change.org that might just have a valid point.
Frankie Ruggeri, 16, of New York started a petition to change next year’s Super Bowl to be held on a Saturday.
As of Tuesday morning, over 64,000 people had signed the petition in support.
In an interview with CNN, Ruggeri noted that fans usually have to stay up pretty late on Sunday to watch the Super Bowl, which makes it hard to get up for school and work the next day.
And let’s think for a moment about the Super Bowl. Whether or not one is invested in the teams, people often throw parties to watch the event unfold. And in some situations, that can mean lots of adult beverage consumption.
Check out these statistics from WalletHub on the Super Bowl.
An estimated $1.3 billion will be spent on beer and cider on Super Bowl Sunday, with another $597 million on wine and $503 million on hard liquor. An estimated 51.7 million cases of beer alone will be sold on Super Bowl Sunday, and 90% more beer will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday than an average day, WalletHub reports.
When it comes to Super Bowl party attendance, an estimated 27% of Americans plan to attend one this year.
However, 52.4% of Americans think Super Bowl Monday should be a national holiday – and 72% of HR managers surveyed agreed. One in 10 people say they will miss work the day after the Super Bowl.
If the Super Bowl were to move to a Saturday, it would do much to alleviate those missed work days, as people would have Sunday to recover from their game-watching shenanigans.
This is one situation where the time zone differences make a difference for Yumans. Kick off here is at 4:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. in Miami, where the game will actually be played). USA Today reports that the average length of a Super Bowl is about 3 hours and 44 minutes. On the East Coast, the game will wrap up somewhere after 10 p.m. Here? That’s closer to 8 p.m. or so.
Still, Ruggeri’s point is a valid one.