Does America need another holiday?
There is yet another White House petition that is making news; this one would make the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday.
To give you an idea of how big the game is, the president won re-election last year with about 66 million votes. While the final numbers are not yet in, Sunday’s game will be close to beating last year’s total of 111.3 million viewers.
There is very little that Americans agree on as much as watching the Super Bowl and the commercials, but does that amazing amount of national unity warrant the creation of a new national holiday?
Josh Moore, who owns the fantasy football website ‘4 for 4’ has created a White House Petition gathering more signatures by the minute, should it reach 100,000 supporters by the 23rd of February, it will get an official response from the White House.
“It'd be fun, just have a day off after the Super Bowl, that would be nice,” one person told us.
Part of the logic behind the idea is that, along Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve the day after the Super Bowl is one of the least productive work days of the year.
“I think it should be because a lot of older people get drunk, the day you don't want to put yourself in danger, hangovers, etc,” commented Elihah Blockson.
We want to know what you think, so we've opened the question up on our CBS21 Facebook page.
Brad Basselgia said, “I'm always down for a paid holiday.”
Wendy Schneck agreed, stating, “that would be great. Many tired people today. Extra sleep would be nice.”
Others don't think this is an idea whose time has come
“Better idea might be to don't drink in excess just because you're watching a football game,” believes Jon Smith.
Bill Ilgenfritz believes “they need to move the game to Saturday night.”
Dan Krodel also weighed in, saying, “take a day off for watching an ad marketing vehicle which masquerades as a sport? Seriously?”
Linda Soester also doesn’t think it is warranted, “I think there are more important days to commemorate with a day off.”
“I don't see why not most people are going to be recuperating from a nice long party,” one stated.
The Super Bowl extends beyond cultures, languages and borders. However, overall the consensus appears to be 'no.' I wouldn't put the National Super Bowl Holiday on your calendar for next year, but it is close and of course we're still taking your comments on our Facebook!
There is yet another White House petition that is making news; this one would make the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday.
To give you an idea of how big the game is, the president won re-election last year with about 66 million votes. While the final numbers are not yet in, Sunday’s game will be close to beating last year’s total of 111.3 million viewers.
There is very little that Americans agree on as much as watching the Super Bowl and the commercials, but does that amazing amount of national unity warrant the creation of a new national holiday?
Josh Moore, who owns the fantasy football website ‘4 for 4’ has created a White House Petition gathering more signatures by the minute, should it reach 100,000 supporters by the 23rd of February, it will get an official response from the White House.
“It'd be fun, just have a day off after the Super Bowl, that would be nice,” one person told us.
Part of the logic behind the idea is that, along Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve the day after the Super Bowl is one of the least productive work days of the year.
“I think it should be because a lot of older people get drunk, the day you don't want to put yourself in danger, hangovers, etc,” commented Elihah Blockson.
We want to know what you think, so we've opened the question up on our CBS21 Facebook page.
Brad Basselgia said, “I'm always down for a paid holiday.”
Wendy Schneck agreed, stating, “that would be great. Many tired people today. Extra sleep would be nice.”
Others don't think this is an idea whose time has come
“Better idea might be to don't drink in excess just because you're watching a football game,” believes Jon Smith.
Bill Ilgenfritz believes “they need to move the game to Saturday night.”
Dan Krodel also weighed in, saying, “take a day off for watching an ad marketing vehicle which masquerades as a sport? Seriously?”
Linda Soester also doesn’t think it is warranted, “I think there are more important days to commemorate with a day off.”
“I don't see why not most people are going to be recuperating from a nice long party,” one stated.
The Super Bowl extends beyond cultures, languages and borders. However, overall the consensus appears to be 'no.' I wouldn't put the National Super Bowl Holiday on your calendar for next year, but it is close and of course we're still taking your comments on our Facebook!