# Why is the Super Bowl on Sunday Night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384 "2003-02-02T23:48:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/1 "2003-02-02T23:48:22Z")
Why is the Super Bowl on Sunday Night? How can we change it? This would give everyone a chance to recover before having to work on Monday morning… ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/2 "2003-02-02T23:50:47Z")
That’s a good question, why do they have football on Monday night?, I don’t watch because it’s on so late. Superbowl - have it on Saturday night! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/3 "2003-02-02T23:59:27Z")
More people watch TV on Sunday night than any other. The advertisers want the biggest audience possible, so they want it on Sunday. Simplest way to avoid the problem of Monday morning is not to watch it. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/4 "2003-02-03T00:00:55Z")
It’s not like the Super Bowl is on so late at night on the East Coast. It ends around 9:30 or 10 most years. But as Grampa Simpson said, “Hey, we better start supporting this game or they won’t hold it anymore!” ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/5 "2003-02-03T08:26:01Z")
Am I insane, or didn’t it used to be in the afternoon? Seems to me I saw the Raiders beat the Eagles _before_ supper. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/6 "2003-02-03T08:51:16Z")
The game _is_ on in the afternoon if you live on the West coast. You just got to live in a better part of the country! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/7 "2003-02-03T14:27:52Z")
While it would be possible to move it, the reasons given here make sense. Plus, pro football and Sundays just go hand-in-hand. Happy ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/8 "2003-02-03T14:40:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Happy Lendervedder \* > \*\*While it would be possible to move it, the reasons given here make sense. Plus, pro football and Sundays just go hand-in-hand. > > Happy \*\* Well, since the Super Bowl is rarely close, the only reason to watch past the first half is for the comercials and the party atmosphere. However, the comercials aren’t a compelling enough reason and I know that the party I was at, and indeed, every party I have been at in the past 10 years or so, most of the people started leaving around half-time because they “had to get up the next morning.” If it were moved to Saturday night, people would feel like they could stay later without worry. Since the sponsors are looking for viewers, the reason to move it makes sense. Of course, the sponsors may only want viewers on the West Coast. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/9 "2003-02-03T14:43:17Z")
The game’s over by 9:30. Just how early do you guys go to bed? 🙂 Contrast this with the World Series, which inexplicably allows even weekend games - when they could hold them earlier - to run well past midnight EST. ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/10 "2003-02-03T15:46:40Z")
So, **RickJay** what would you propose MLB do to keep the World Series Games from runnining over? Snipers positioned in the upper decks with orders to take out any base runners who would tie up the game in the bottom of the ninth, thus causing it to run into extra innings? 😃 Hell, if they put that in, I might actually start watching baseball again. ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/11 "2003-02-03T17:16:55Z")
Someone PLEASE talk some sense into Bud Selig. Baseball’s postseason schedule is a killer for us in the Eastern Time Zone. Start the pregame at 7, the game at 7:30, and speed it up! On weekends, start the games at 5:00 ET. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/12 "2003-02-03T21:55:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*what would you propose MLB do to keep the World Series Games from runnining over? \*\* [paraphrasing George Carlin] If the pitcher hits the batter with the ball, he’s out. 27 good pitches and you can be out of the ball park in 30 minutes, plenty of time to go home and watch football. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-super-bowl-on-sunday-night/152384/13 "2003-02-03T22:19:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MSU 1978 \* > \*\*Someone PLEASE talk some sense into Bud Selig. Baseball’s postseason schedule is a killer for us in the Eastern Time Zone. Start the pregame at 7, the game at 7:30, and speed it up! On weekends, start the games at 5:00 ET. \*\* That’s a good time for people on the East Coast, but sometimes the World Series is played with times from the West Coast, like say, hmm… LAST YEAR! If you started World Series games at 4:30 out here, it would be nearly impossible to see the ball because of glare and a sizeable chunk of the audience would never get home in time to see any of the game. Unless the shape of the United States suddenly starts to resemble Chile, this problem will persist forever with events like the World Series and Super Bowl, and less important events like presidential elections.