Super Bowl Sundays are one of the most-watched sporting events in the world. Even non-football fans can enjoy the extravagant halftime shows and the highly-anticipated commercials that air during the big game. Not only is it a big day for television, it's also reportedly the second-largest day for food consumption in the U.S., behind Thanksgiving Day. Why is the Super Bowl on a Sunday? Ever since the championship game's inception on Jan. 15, 1967, the Super Bowl has always been played on Sundays. For years, fans of the sporting event have signed online petitions to move the Super Bowl to Saturday. One of the more recent attempts to try and convince the league to change the big game was a Florida high school senior's petition, which received over 144,000 signatures on Change.org. Mondays after the Super Bowl are notorious for the number of employees calling out of work. In 2023, a survey by the Workforce Institute found 18.1 million employees said they planned to miss work the day after the Super Bowl. More than 3 million admitted they planned to call in sick even though they weren't actually feeling ill. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/why-is-super-bowl-on-a-sunday/507-fd6503c7-d022-4913-a35b-ed6b173c5afc ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►X: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay