Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich suggested making the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday
For decades, people in the United States have viewed the Super Bowl as a national holiday of sorts. It’s annually the most-expensive, most-watched television event in the country, and is beloved by all sorts of different Americans: football fanatics, commercial aficionados, halftime show entertainment enthusiasts, and even simple gourmands looking for any excuse to overindulge their appetites with cocktail weenies and queso dips.
And since the Super Bowl is always on a Sunday, it’s easy for the vast majority of Americans to tune in and veg out, given the fact that most people are already off work for the weekend.
The only major downside to Super Bowl Sunday is having to make the long, harrowing trip back to work and a reality without football Monday morning. Mondays are tough enough as it is , but knowing the NFL won’t return for another seven months makes that particular Monday especially brutal.
Well, if Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich somehow finds a way to overcome Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for his party’s nomination, and then goes on to beat either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in November’s general election, we can all rest a little easier knowing that the Monday following the Super Bowl won’t be such a drag anymore. Because if Kasich wins the presidency, one of his first orders of business will be to make that day a national holiday.
“There’s no productivity whatsoever. I’m going to take that under consideration, and maybe I can get that done in the first 100 days,” Kasich told Dan Patrick on Friday.
Kasich has fallen well behind his rivals in the race to lock up the GOP’s nomination during primary season, so at this point he’s a bit of a longshot to end up in the Oval Office anytime soon. Perhaps this statement might garner him a few more votes from sports junkies, but it’s unlikely to do anything serious for his campaign chances.
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