Super Bowl Sunday is in the distance. And that means the Monday after the ‘Big Game’ is creeping up even further. Many out there in the world would love it if the day after the biggest football game of the year was a holiday. As it turns out, one U.S. state is trying to push for that.
The state of Tennessee plans to push to make Super Bowl Monday a holiday. The plan, introduced in a bill earlier this week, would have that Monday off but come at a price. The day off would replace Columbus Day as an officially-recognized holiday.
Yahoo! Sports wrote:
“Tennessee introduced a bill Wednesday that would make Super Bowl Monday a real holiday. The bill was filed for introduction Wednesday by Senator London Lamar and Representative Joe Towns Jr., both Democrats. It proposed axing Columbus Day as a legal holiday in the state and replacing it with the first Monday after the Super Bowl.”
Generally, the day after the ‘Big Game’ is one of the least-productive days at work in America.
According to challengergray.com of Challenger, Gray, & Christmas, Inc., a 2021 survey said, “16.1 million Americans reported they were likely not going to work on the Monday after the Super Bowl. This figure, multiplied times the average daily hours worked in January (6.9), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the average hourly wage of $31.63 in January 2022, results in $3.5 billion in lost productivity. Add 2 hours of distracted working for the other 47 million estimated employed NFL fans, the cost balloons to $6.5 billion.”
Will Super Bowl Monday become a thing? If Tennessee lawmakers have their way, the Volunteer State may be on its way to innovation.
