The day reserved for the biggest football of the year is quite the festival. People host parties with way too much food and way too much alcohol. They stay up for the big game, and if the favored team wins, they're up later to watch the celebrations and Roger Goodell hand deliver the Lombardi Trophy. Then it hits them, it's a Sunday, and they need to go to work or school in the morning. They groan and moan as they head to bed, knowing that the alarm will blare in just a few hours and the post-party headache will settle in for the day. But why should they have to go to work? Can’t there be some national holiday that entitles them to one free day of recovery after the game? There are many reasons as to why that could be a great and horrible idea
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No one is thinking about the alarm that they have set for 6 AM or the long night ahead of them as they watch their team win in overtime. According to Heinz Ketchup’s change.org petition “over 16 million people call in sick or just don’t show up to work” on the day after the Super Bowl”. But, all this could be changed with the creation of a holiday which allows people to stay home. After a long day of preparing food, eating that food, drinking a lot, and watching the game until 11 because it's a nail biter and your team might actually come back from that 28-0 deficit, you just want to crawl into bed and sleep for as long as you want. With a national holiday, that dream can become a reality.
But, like every idea ever thought of, there are some drawbacks to this otherwise great idea of a Super Bowl Monday holiday. According to one Washington Post article from 2014, it costs a lot of money for taxpayers; “A Congressional Research Service report found that federal holidays cost taxpayers about $200 million a day”. Also, just because it is a national holiday doesn't mean that private businesses must close. So even if the holiday is passes, you might still have to go in. Other options such as having the game earlier or on a Saturday may be a better
No one is thinking about the alarm that they have set for 6 AM or the long night ahead of them as they watch their team win in overtime. According to Heinz Ketchup’s change.org petition “over 16 million people call in sick or just don’t show up to work” on the day after the Super Bowl”. But, all this could be changed with the creation of a holiday which allows people to stay home. After a long day of preparing food, eating that food, drinking a lot, and watching the game until 11 because it's a nail biter and your team might actually come back from that 28-0 deficit, you just want to crawl into bed and sleep for as long as you want. With a national holiday, that dream can become a reality.
But, like every idea ever thought of, there are some drawbacks to this otherwise great idea of a Super Bowl Monday holiday. According to one Washington Post article from 2014, it costs a lot of money for taxpayers; “A Congressional Research Service report found that federal holidays cost taxpayers about $200 million a day”. Also, just because it is a national holiday doesn't mean that private businesses must close. So even if the holiday is passes, you might still have to go in. Other options such as having the game earlier or on a Saturday may be a better