Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
Originally posted by DrEll:
They should play the conference championship games on Saturday then play the SB on Sunday one week after. The two week weight is overkill. I get the nfl wants to milk it but 2 weeks is a bit much…
Didn't they add the extra week after 9/11 because the January 2002 Super Bowl got unexpectedly pushed back a week and they wanted to add it in case the season ever got pushed back a week again?
EDIT: On second thought, plenty of Super Bowls in the 90's were played two weeks later so I must be wrong about this… looks like others were played one week later, including the January 2003 Super Bowl so I'm not sure anymore.
Can't remember when they changed the day the Super Bowl was held, maybe when they turned the Pro Bowl into something I'll never watch. I used to be able to watch the Super Bowl on the last Sunday in January, then the Pro Bowl, a REAL football game, in Hawaii the following week, to ween me off football, with fewer withdrawals.