>>you don’t have Patriots [team stats] Day off
uh, whomever does the Herald website—there is no need to
do a link to the Patriots’ team stats as the holiday is
NOT named after the football team. Unless they were just being a wiseass :)
About 20 years ago, I was working at a law firm representing Channel 5 against the Boston Athletic Association (who tried to copyright the term "Boston Marathon"), et al. over rights to broadcast the Marathon -- on of those "why can't both sides lose???" things. The law firm I worked for hired a market research firm (for reasons that now escape me -- I was going nuts with the whole thing anyway!) and polled people about the Marathon. I saw one response that said the Marathon was so important, that they made the day a holiday! :)