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With the Super Bowl not even starting until 6:30 pm EST, by the time the Giants had defeated the Patriots 21-17 it was already well past 10:00 on the east coast, and many fans had likely been drinking for the past several hours. The game drew a 47.8 rating, which means approximately half of the households with TVs were tuned into the broadcast. If there's this much interest in watching the "big game," should the day after the Super Bowl just be written off as a national holiday so fans can recover from a long day of beer guzzling and wing eating?
Even if Election Day isn't a holiday in America, you'd think something as important as the day after the Super Bowl would be. Right?
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I have never understood why the NFL doesn't simply move the game back a single day to Saturday night. Nothing would change. It's not like people would suddenly start saying "nah I don't feel like watching the Super Bowl tonight, I think I'll just go out instead." The Super Bowl party would end up being where they were going out to that night.
There would be no need for a day to recover from the late night since you get to sleep in on Sundays anyway.
The only problem I could see with a Saturday scenario is the loss of the lead in that the networks crave so much now. I don't know what the television audience would do after the Super Bowl was over on a Saturday, so the television networks might lose a portion of them that they retain these days after the game to watch whatever big show they are highlighting.
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