A thought about improving superbowl sunday

Move the SuperBowl to a Saturday Night.

Having to wait until 6:00-6:30 in the east is bad enough. Then you have a over the top extra long halftime show and the game doesn't get done until like 11:30. I have to get up at 5 a.m. Last year I was so wound up after the game I couldn't sleep. I spent most of that Monday like a zombie and nobody noticed! I was going to take tomorrow off if the Pack was in it again. Instead I'm on call tonight and will be in bed before Madonna has a chance to wreck any songs.

Goodell says he is looking into canceling the Pro Bowl due to this years patty cake game.

There was a football game on earlier. Manchester U versus Chelsea.

Ditch the Pro Bowl; it's a farce and the players don't care. What's $50k or $100k to a guy making millions or possibly jeopardizing a guy's future in the league? At least in MLB it determines the home team. It's a dumb game in the NFL.

Start the Super Bowl similar to a late Sunday game during the regular season -- say, 3:30 here in the Midwest. Even at that it wouldn't finish until 7 p.m. or 7:30 or so. Right now my 7-year-old son complains because he can't stay up to see the game (I'd let him if GB was playing). The NFL has to realize it is cutting off the young fans from seeing the biggest game of the year. If they moved it to a 3:30 start, people could still do the heavy partying and be home earlier. It would also work better on both coasts.

They could start a pre-Super Bowl festival at noon with some sort of retrospective from past Super Bowls to get a lot more folks involved and watching even if their team wasn't involved in the big game (focus on QBs one year; WRs the next; close calls the next, etc., or something like that). Hey, they have 46 years of games to choose from!

But our chances of being heard are about as good as the Vikings ever winning the Big Game. Zero.

Faith Hill doing the theme song naked.

What? Tim McGraw should share her with the world. I just want a peek.

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Originally posted by njs III:
Move the SuperBowl to a Saturday Night.

agreed, always thought that but NFL loses the "SuperBowl Sunday" marketing anchor thing I'm thinkin.

when they started making it about more than the game, it ruined the game.

Put the Packers in the game every year.

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Originally posted by njs III:
Move the SuperBowl to a Saturday Night.

+1 This.

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Originally posted by Fedya:
Put the Packers in the game every year.

Saturday same time. All 4 Beatles at half.

Beatles? Nothing would make me change the channel faster...

first of all, I would drop to pray because George and John somehow made it back.
2nd, the music is pretty good.

Kill the pro bowl. SB at noon.

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Originally posted by G:
Beatles? Nothing would make me change the channel faster...

Touche. Scared to death of zombies.

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Originally posted by GBFanForLife:
Goodell says he is looking into canceling the Pro Bowl due to this years patty cake game.

I like that idea. Waste of time.

Just load the stats into Madden and simulate the game. I'd be just as likely to not watch that.

Super Bowl at 7:42 am CST, then everybody can see it. Pro Bowl must include Superman's Dean Cain, and MC Hammer.

Do not let Dan Patrick present the Lombardi trophy to the winner. Or at least have someone else come up with the end of game interview questions.

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Originally posted by njs III:
Move the SuperBowl to a Saturday Night.

Been saying that for years. Kids could stay up and watch it without worry of school the next day. Idiots that drink all day/night would not feel compelled to drive home for work the next day and the game could actually begin in true Prime Time.

Yea, I would like to see the superbowl moved to Saturday night. Most people could relax and not have to worry about work the next day.

I know tv networks like Sunday's for ratings, but I think the ratings would not suffer one bit. Football is just too popular.

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Originally posted by Fedya:
Put the Packers in the game every year.

++1 This!!! Ratings would be through the roof and would increase every year...

Saturday night is a great idea. I was talking to someone this weekend about it. I was quickly put in my place - basically if the NFL knew playing the game on Saturday would mean more revenue they'd have it on Saturday. They say best interest of the fans but really it's the best interest of their wallets. They'd lose an entire day of hype, not to mention a bunch of revenue from all of the events in the host city. The host city would lose a ton of money as well, as people would arrive in town on Friday and leave on Sunday as opposed to now when most arrive in town on Friday and leave on Monday.

What he's saying

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Originally posted by The GBP Rules:
basically if the NFL knew playing the game on Saturday would mean more revenue they'd have it on Saturday. people would arrive in town on Friday and leave on Sunday as opposed to now when most arrive in town on Friday and leave on Monday.

The hotels all set it up with either a 3 or 4 night minimum stay, so they win either way

The crux of the matter is ratings ( $$) and the League is worried that people might do other things on a Saturday night and just DVR the game

Super Sunday is here to stay, but you could make an argument for "Morose Monday" being a national holiday

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Originally posted by Satori:
Super Sunday is here to stay, but you could make an argument for "Morose Monday" being a national holiday

Make MLK Day the day after the Super Bowl. February is Black History Month and the NBA shuts down Super Bowl Sunday. NBA takes Sunday off and MLK Day has a full slate of NBA games, day and evening.

Keep it on Sunday but start the game no later than 4pm Eastern.

Kill the half time show once and for all. Yesterday some to no talent @sshack used the show to give the audience her middle finger so people talk about her on Monday.

Pro Bowl needs to go away forever. Winning team of the Pro Bowl made more than the winning team of the Super Bowl. Name rosters for both sides and include include the starters and never play the game.

You mean she wasn't doing her impression of one of those giant foam #1 hands?

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if the NFL knew playing the game on Saturday would mean more revenue they'd have it on Saturday. They say best interest of the fans but really it's the best interest of their wallets.

If they need more money make the championship two out of three and drag it out for three weeks. I can't imagine a message board after three weeks of this.

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Originally posted by Satori:
Super Sunday is here to stay, but you could make an argument for "Morose Monday" being a national holiday

It will be when the league gets it's 18 game schedule. The regular season will end two weeks later, that will push the Super Bowl back to the Sunday before President's Day. The Super Bowl start time will then be pushed back to either 8:00 or 8:30. That will allow two more hours of pre-game show to fill with commercials, and a later game start will have the same, if not higher ratings.

If it were strictly up to Goodell. The first half would be Friday night. The halftime show would be an 8 hour marathon on Saturday. And the second half would be Sunday night starting at 8pm following a 10 hour recap of the first half and halftime show.

Trophy presentation would be on Monday.