On Sunday, February 7, 2016, the Carolina Panthers will meet the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl to determine which team can lay claim to the 2015–16 National Football League (NFL) title and the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy. The game is considered to be the pinnacle of American gridiron football. This year’s Super Bowl contest and celebration is a bit different, however, because it marks the 50th time it has been played since its inception in 1967.
Over the years the game has grown to become the centerpiece of a daylong celebration called “Super Bowl Sunday.” This unofficial national holiday in the United States is filled with festivities, feasting, and pageantry that extends from the stadium and host city to the homes and other places where football fans and their friends and families gather. Long before kickoff takes place in the late afternoon/early evening, football aficionados are treated to hours of programming featuring the glories of past Super Bowls, interviews with past and present NFL greats, and hard-boiled pre-game analysis. Closer to game time and continuing throughout the contest, ticket holders and television viewers alike are shown performances by some of the best-known musical acts as well as a cavalcade of creative television advertisem*nts.
The game is always played on a Sunday, when most Americans are not at work. Because of the event's national prominence, even those who are not football fans often join friends to watch the game and cheer for one of the teams.
WASHINGTON — Super Bowl Sundays are one of the most-watched sporting events in the world. Even non-football fans can enjoy the extravagant halftime shows and the highly-anticipated commercials that air during the big game.
In 2023, two Tennessee lawmakers proposed a bill that would replace the state's Columbus Day holiday with a new one for the Monday after the Super Bowl. Congress traditionally passes resolutions to congratulate the winning team.
An estimated 16.1 million employees across the U.S. plan to miss work Monday, Feb. 12, the day after Super Bowl 58 is played, according to a survey of 1,192 Americans, conducted Jan. 10-12, 2024 by The Harris Poll for The Workforce Institute at UKG.
Joe Towns Jr. (D-Memphis) have introduced a bill this week that would make the first Monday after the Super Bowl a holiday in Tennessee. To make that happen though, the state would have to get rid of another holiday, so the lawmakers are proposing to scrap Columbus Day.
Presidents' Day is the third Monday in February. The Super Bowl has been played on the second Sunday in February since the schedule expanded to 17 games in 2021.
In 2023, two Tennessee lawmakers proposed a bill that would replace the state's Columbus Day holiday with a new one for the Monday after the Super Bowl.
Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 1979 to 2003, and the first Sunday of February from 2004 to 2021.
Attendees pay thousands of dollars for tickets, while companies pay millions for 30-second commercial spots. A reliable figure doesn't exist for how much money the Super Bowl actually makes each year, though most estimates range from a minimum of $300 million to a maximum of $1.3 billion depending on the source.
It's an occasion where families spread across the US come together just to watch this one pivotal game. The Super Bowl is, at its core, a celebration of American history, pop culture and a way of life in general. It has a very strong patriotic feel, which is perhaps why Czechs don't enjoy events like this as much.
Over the years the game has grown to become the centerpiece of a daylong celebration called “Super Bowl Sunday.” This unofficial national holiday in the United States is filled with festivities, feasting, and pageantry that extends from the stadium and host city to the homes and other places where football fans and ...
Well, not the actual game, but the day after. As the Super Bowl spectacle shines ever brighter, so have reports of people not showing up for work on the Monday after the NFL crowns its champion. So-called Super Bowl Monday is routinely named as one of the least productive days on the calendar.
"The reason we haven't done it in the past is simply just from an audience standpoint. The audiences on Sunday night are so much larger," Goodell said in 2018. "Fans want to have the best opportunity to be able to see the game and we want to give that to them, so Sunday night is a better night."
An estimated 16.1 million U.S. employees plan to miss work on the day after the Super Bowl game, according to the results of a survey sponsored by the UKG Workforce Institute. In addition, an estimated 6.4 million employees expect to be late for work; slightly less anticipate being reprimanded for unreported absences.
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