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In what would be a game-changing move that NFL fans have been asking for for a long time, commissioner Roger Goodell said on The Pat McAfee Show that the league is looking into moving the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend.
According to Goodell, his ideal schedule for the NFL season would be two preseason season games, 18 regular season games, and extending the NFL’s calendar by one week, which would put the Super Bowl on Presidents’ Day weekend, which is a 3-day weekend for many professions.
Roger Goodell just said on McAfee he ideally wants to go to the following schedule:
2 preseason games
18 regular season games
calendar extended by 1 week
Super Bowl Sunday will land on a 3-day weekend
Monday after Super Bowl is Presidents Day holiday
sounds good to me
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) April 26, 2024
The NFL has tweaked its schedule a bunch in recent years — moving from 16 regular season game to 17 and adding an extra Wild Card team to each division — so figuring out a way to have the Super Bowl land on the Sunday before Presidents’ Day shouldn’t be all that difficult.
Moving the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend is such a popular idea among sports fans because Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest drinking days of the year in the United States, up there with Thanksgiving Eve, the 4th of July, and so on.
In addition to making it easier for fans to enjoy themselves, moving the Super Bowl to a holiday weekend would likely make it more profitable for the NFL as it would give them, and therefore the people in attendance, an extra day in whatever city is hosting the Super Bowl, thus allowing for more shopping and more travel options.
Heading into the 2024 season, the San Francisco 49ers are slim favorites to win the Super Bowl, followed by the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, and Buffalo Bills. Should the Chiefs win the Super Bowl again next season, they’ll become the first team in the history of the NFL to win three straight titles.