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Czaban has a good idea 
. . . . . Why not play the Super Bowl on Saturday vs. Sunday? That way, you have a day to recover vs. going into work Monday morning half groggy ? ? ? ?
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Move Over, Dead Presidents
There’s nothing wrong with the Super Bowl being on Sunday.
The problem is when the game starts.
I remember when the game started around 3:15 in the afternoon in the east. Yes, I am old.
(CUE Mike Gundy rant: “I’m a MAN! I’m FORTY!”)
Now, the game starts at 6:15 in the east. On a “school night” and “work night.” No good.
Because the game lasts easily 3 and a half hours, you are talking 10 p.m. when people are picking the chips out of your cushions and heading for the door.
How come there’s not more outrage about this?
Granted, any serious football fan is an IDIOT for either a) inviting or b) accepting an invite to a “Super Bowl Party.” Nothing good comes from them, unless you limit invitees to men you have fought with in a foreign war, or have been in your fantasy league for at least 5 years.
Any posers, part-timers, women, clueless football women, hot women you won’t be able to hit on because your wife is with you, ambiguously gay guys like the duo on Mythbusters (not that there’s anything wrong with that..), and metrosexuals like Mike Greenberg are a recipe for a game night disaster.
Think of it this way, fellas. THIS IS THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR! Treat it with the reverence and importance it deserves as a fan.
Every distraction you have to battle through during the game (“honey, can you come up here, the burgers need to be served!”) will leave you likely to miss a rich little nugget in the game. A play, a camera shot of a fan, a stupidly obvious line by Troy Aikman – all things you will sheepishly admit to your football buddies on Monday at work: “Oh, I didn’t see that. When was that?”
Now, there is a “solution” to being able to have or attend a Super Bowl party if you are stupid enough/unable to wiggle out of one. Actually, two solutions.
1. “Super Bowl Saturday”
2. Super Presidents Day Bowl Weekend
Under either solution, you could have a game that starts at 6 p.m. in the east for maximum TV ratings (not that the game is um, suffering ya know) and also GO OUT after the game to bars and such, get loaded, sleep in late, and have all day to read the papers and watch highlites.
It’s so simple, so logical, it hurts that it hasn’t been fixed.
I doubt they’ll do “Super Saturday” because it loses the essentially Sunday element to football. They would have to re-write the cliché: “On any given Sunday…” to “On any given Sunday, or Saturday if it happens to be the Super Bowl.”
That would, admittedly, suck.
But Prez day is just another week out in February. If the league decides to extend the regular season to 17 games you could get there. For the record, I’m opposed, for no other reason than it invalidates all previous notions of what constitutes a really good season. For me, that’s 11 or more wins.
Or you could start the season one week later. Or you could add back in a second bye week (boo!).
Or just tell the Government: “Um, you’re gonna need to move UP the 3-day prez weekend for us. We’re the NFL. Thanks!”
All I know, is that the current start time and weekend suck. Some of us have to wake up early on Monday, and we sure would like to get pretty slot-faced while enjoying the last precious football game of the year.
. . . . . Why not play the Super Bowl on Saturday vs. Sunday? That way, you have a day to recover vs. going into work Monday morning half groggy ? ? ? ? =============
Move Over, Dead Presidents
There’s nothing wrong with the Super Bowl being on Sunday.
The problem is when the game starts.
I remember when the game started around 3:15 in the afternoon in the east. Yes, I am old.
(CUE Mike Gundy rant: “I’m a MAN! I’m FORTY!”)
Now, the game starts at 6:15 in the east. On a “school night” and “work night.” No good.
Because the game lasts easily 3 and a half hours, you are talking 10 p.m. when people are picking the chips out of your cushions and heading for the door.
How come there’s not more outrage about this?
Granted, any serious football fan is an IDIOT for either a) inviting or b) accepting an invite to a “Super Bowl Party.” Nothing good comes from them, unless you limit invitees to men you have fought with in a foreign war, or have been in your fantasy league for at least 5 years.
Any posers, part-timers, women, clueless football women, hot women you won’t be able to hit on because your wife is with you, ambiguously gay guys like the duo on Mythbusters (not that there’s anything wrong with that..), and metrosexuals like Mike Greenberg are a recipe for a game night disaster.
Think of it this way, fellas. THIS IS THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR! Treat it with the reverence and importance it deserves as a fan.
Every distraction you have to battle through during the game (“honey, can you come up here, the burgers need to be served!”) will leave you likely to miss a rich little nugget in the game. A play, a camera shot of a fan, a stupidly obvious line by Troy Aikman – all things you will sheepishly admit to your football buddies on Monday at work: “Oh, I didn’t see that. When was that?”
Now, there is a “solution” to being able to have or attend a Super Bowl party if you are stupid enough/unable to wiggle out of one. Actually, two solutions.
1. “Super Bowl Saturday”
2. Super Presidents Day Bowl Weekend
Under either solution, you could have a game that starts at 6 p.m. in the east for maximum TV ratings (not that the game is um, suffering ya know) and also GO OUT after the game to bars and such, get loaded, sleep in late, and have all day to read the papers and watch highlites.
It’s so simple, so logical, it hurts that it hasn’t been fixed.
I doubt they’ll do “Super Saturday” because it loses the essentially Sunday element to football. They would have to re-write the cliché: “On any given Sunday…” to “On any given Sunday, or Saturday if it happens to be the Super Bowl.”
That would, admittedly, suck.
But Prez day is just another week out in February. If the league decides to extend the regular season to 17 games you could get there. For the record, I’m opposed, for no other reason than it invalidates all previous notions of what constitutes a really good season. For me, that’s 11 or more wins.
Or you could start the season one week later. Or you could add back in a second bye week (boo!).
Or just tell the Government: “Um, you’re gonna need to move UP the 3-day prez weekend for us. We’re the NFL. Thanks!”
All I know, is that the current start time and weekend suck. Some of us have to wake up early on Monday, and we sure would like to get pretty slot-faced while enjoying the last precious football game of the year.
