Josh Coleman

I’m sick and tired of trying to live this lie, acting like the day after the Super Bowl shouldn’t be a national holiday.  

The Super Bowl isn’t just a day for die hard football fans. The Super Bowl has something for everyone with the commercials and the halftime show.  

It’s the parties that make me believe that the day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday. Especially for college students, I imagine there are a fair amount of people who went to parties and got drunk.  

The Super Bowl gives people an excuse to drink, and, in my experiences, most college students don’t pass up opportunities to drink.  

I understand that getting drunk shouldn’t be an excuse to have a day off, but it isn’t like it’s everyone’s most productive day anyway. The Monday after the Super Bowl seems to have a hangover affect even if you aren’t hungover.  

The day seems to go by slower and to me, the day seems worse than a usual Monday. I have a hard time waking up every day, but it’s worse on the day after the Super Bowl.  

I do have a biased opinion on the matter because I’m a massive sports fan, and I have never missed a Super Bowl. I can confirm that I hate waking up that Monday after the Super Bowl whether I’m sober or hungover.  

I understand that not everyone watches the Super Bowl, but wouldn’t everyone want an extra day off? You could use the extra day off for whatever you wanted to do.  

The people who are hungover can use the day to recuperate and get ready for the rest of the week.  

If everyone bought into the holiday too, we might be able to get the holiday pay from our jobs like you get with major holidays.  

While I don’t see the holiday pay thing happening, a man can dream right.  

If everyone had the day off after the Super Bowl, I think we would be a nicer society. I get that we shouldn’t cater to the people who are getting drunk on a Sunday, but liquor stores were declared as essential in quarantine.  

If liquor stores can be declared essential than we should be able to get a day off because half the nation is getting drunk on a Sunday.  

Cody Ferguson 

Many sports fans are clamoring for the day after the Super Bowl to be its own holiday when America has a lot more work to do when it comes to acknowledging marginalized groups on a national celebratory level.   

Many football fans feel the aches from the day after the Super Bowl hangover and have floated around the idea that maybe the day after the super bowl should be its own holiday. A day of rest. Why is this such a bad idea?  

First, the Super Bowl has always been on Sundays. I’ve asked this question to several football fans, “wouldn’t just be easier to move the Super Bowl to a Saturday? It’s a cooler day to have something fun on.” 

Many fans understandably just say that the Super Bowl has always landed on Sunday so why change it? It’s most certainly easier to change the day something lands on than to mandate a whole new holiday, right?  Who knows? I don’t even know the first thing about creating a holiday.  

The main reason why I’m so against it is that we have so much more work to do as a society and I believe there are just groups of people that a more worth celebrating.  

Football has also always been catered to men, so why give them another holiday that most celebrates their needs and interests?

We most certainly had a chaotic 2020. I suggest we start there and really reflect on what needs to be improved and acknowledged. Once we fix those changes, we can start having a day that appreciates women and empowers them; or a day that acknowledges a toxic work crunch or sexual harassment in the workplace.

So before yelling that you need the day off after the Super Bowl, take a step back in think about who needs to be appreciated first. Others need to be seen before you take up more of the calendar.