72% of HR managers polled say the day after the Super Bowl should be a paid national holiday.
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Other findings:
- 27% of employees have called in sick the day after a major sporting event such as the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals or the World Series.
- 32% of people have been late to work the day after a big game.
- the average employee spends 27 minutes a day at work talking about sports.
Robert Chute and three of his friends are petitioning the U.S. government to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday. Super Bowl plans he says are made, on average, 41 days in advance of the big game. New Year’s plans are made 35 days in advance. Robert adds that the Monday after the Super Bowl is one of the biggest sick days of the year.
- Half of all Americans would rather attend a Super Bowl party than a New Year’s Eve party. His research shows that, on average, Super Bowl plans are made 41 days in advance, while New Year’s plans are made 35 days in advance.
- Two out of five Super Bowl watchers are not even football fans.
- Super Bowl weekend is the least popular of all to hold weddings
Conspicuous consumption is as ingrained with the Big Day as that of other holidays such as Thanksgiving, though the nutritional factor may be inferior. Roughly 20 million pounds of potato and tortilla chips will be gobbled up at game time, along with 8 million pounds of avocados. Incidentally, antacid sales jump 20% that weekend.
