The Importance Of The Day After The Super Bowl

Should The Day After The Super Bowl Be A National Holiday Did you know that the day after the Super Bowl, a reported 10.5 million people called in "sick", and 7.5 million went in to work late? Or that ⅓ of the country watches the biggest sporting event in history, this huge sporting event? People are debating about whether everyone should have off of school and work on February 5th, the day after the Super Bowl. Some people say that their child is just too tired to learn, or that they can’t go to work because they can’t stay awake. Opposers say we have to go, it’s just another Monday to those who don’t watch the Super Bowl, but many people are too tired to go. This is due to people calling out of work, which causes the U.S. losing about 1 billion dollars every year due to the lack of productivity and 16 million kids skip school the day after the Super Bowl, causing more than half of school’s students being out, and the kids who are actually in school are too tired to learn anything. Schools and …show more content…
According to http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-super-bowl-be-a-national-holiday, the day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday and we should have off because so many big buisnesses lose money because barely anyone comes and virtually nothing actually gets done. According to http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/02/03/day-after-super-bowl-16-million-stay-home-super-sick-day/97354572/, this website said, “In 2016, the Workforce Institute suggested 1 in 10 U.S. workers — about 16.5 million employed adults — may have missed work the day after last year's big game.” This is a big problem because if the U.S. loses 1 billion dollars every year the day after the super bowl, in 10 years that’s 10 billion dollars we lose just on one day alone! This is why we should just have off so we don’t lose so much money every