Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

While much of the commentary is definitely written tongue-in-cheek, the salient points actually make a lot of sense for a number of reasons:

1. A Saturday night Super Bowl would cut down on the Super Bowl hype by one day, not significant given the two-week buildup to the game anyway.
2. By placing the game on Saturday night, it allows the NFL to start the game somewhere between 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm for maximum viewership and ad revenue.
3. Saturday night game time means there are less worries about younger people having to stay up for the game, since Saturday is part of the weekend for most people.
4. Corporate parties could be HUGE on a Super Bowl played on Saturday nights.
5. Sports bars and traditional bars will do record business on Saturday night Super Bowls.
6. It would allow workers a day to "dry out" so workers will return in reasonable condition Monday mornings.

1 posted on 01/25/2008 8:15:11 AM PST by RayChuang88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: RayChuang88

Do these guys offer “Free Mustache Rides?”


2 posted on 01/25/2008 8:16:05 AM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: RayChuang88

I’d prefer a starting time of 4:15, but I believe it’s scheduled for 6:00, which is acceptable. 8:00 is late.


3 posted on 01/25/2008 8:22:45 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: RayChuang88

Saturday makes too much sense, they’ll never change it.


6 posted on 01/25/2008 8:34:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: RayChuang88

I can’t say it will never happen...if they did move it to Saturday I still think it would start at 6:15 p.m. though. Throughout the game they would promote some other show coming on at 10:00.


8 posted on 01/25/2008 2:09:29 PM PST by scrabblehack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: RayChuang88
Actually I was thinking that they should have the Super Bowl played over four consecutive nights.

Instead of four 15 minute quarters, they should have 8 thirty minute octets. That would be one hour of football per night for four nights. Due to the time-outs and commercial breaks and "half-times" (between each two octets) we would have at least three hours of programming each night.

Accordingly, we could make Friday and Monday federal holidays and we will have the Super Bowl Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday Night and Monday night.

This makes sense for a number of reasons:

1. The 70,000 seat football stadium will be filled four nights in a row, greatly increasing gate revenue for the host city.

2. The drama of the Super Bowl will be spread over four exciting nights.

3. We will have the potential for very high scoring games. We could see scores like 117-91 on a regular basis.

4. Lots more commercials will be seen.

5. Lots more beer and food will be consumed.

It will be like four days of constant partying.

10 posted on 01/25/2008 6:44:53 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 11 days away from outliving Nicolette Larson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson