When asked about religion, my husband used to joke that he was a member of the Church of the NFL. Seems at least two Tennessee lawmakers worship at the same altar.
A week ahead of the NFL’s premier event, state Rep. Joe Towns and Sen. London Lamar have introduced legislation that would make Super Bowl Monday a holiday in the Volunteer State. The idea, of course, is that the 100 million Americans who watch the Super Bowl every year could use a day off after football’s annual final swan song — and maybe some accompanying overindulgence.
In 2022, an estimated 99.18 million Americans tuned into the game — and that’s not counting those who were at the game, at watch parties, or publicly consuming the broadcast elsewhere. And while that number seems staggering, it’s not the biggest audience in the game’s history. According to Statista.com, in 2015 a record 114.44 million American viewers tuned in.
That’s a lot of spring holidays
The Tennessee lawmakers want to trade Columbus Day for Super Bowl Monday, which is now traditionally held on the second Sunday of February. While I’m all for holidays, trading Columbus Day (which celebrates a flawed man who didn’t discover America, after all) for Super Bowl Monday makes for an abundance of Mondays off in January and February.