The Super Bowl champion will likely be crowned at 10 pm on Sunday, once again, pitting parents against our kids.
It’s BS.
In fact, crowning ANY champion after 9 pm Eastern Time on a “school night” is a passive-aggressive assault on parents of sports crazed kids. And, we just don’t need it.
I can do without the battle to preserve a decent bedtime for my 8 year-old, Everett, who has found a sudden affinity for the Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
I don’t want my 6 year-old – who could care less about the game – to see her brother freak out and follow suit.
The parenting issues associated with starting so late do not end with the final buzzer – they continue into the following day.
I don’t look forward to having to sound the gong to wake my catatonic teenagers from their inadequate slumber.
I’ll waste fifteen minutes of Everett’s reading time providing a detailed game summary to a still-angry-for-having-been-forced-to-bed little sports nut.
Unfortunately, these unprovoked and unnecessary parenting battles are not reserved only for the NFL’s Super Bowl.
College football and basketball title games each BEGIN at 9 pm EST on a Monday. A MONDAY!!!!
Major League Baseball World Series contests begin after 8 pm EST most times.
Press repeat for the NHL’s Stanley Cup (where our adopted hometown Tampa Bay Lightning hoisted the Cup near 11 pm on a Wednesday in July 2021).
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This is not a “get off my lawn” Boomer rant. Well, maybe.
In fact, enabling young kids to see the best of the best secure a championship is important. Witnessing the culmination of the work that greatness demands, marveling at the minuscule differences that secure (or abandon) victory, witnessing the joy of the confetti shower, and taking in the gut-wrenching agony of loss for the defeated side – these are things our kids simply will not see.
Great news, though, solutions abound and, to me, seem very easy to implement.
Famously, there is a public outcry for a Saturday Super Bowl. A petition started by a high schooler has over 80K online signatures. This solves the “school night” issue for the NFL.
But, the issue is broader than the NFL so parents can’t stop there. We can unite to end this misuse of parenting brainpower by demanding one thing: that all championships end by 8 pm Eastern Time – no matter the day of the week.
This is easy.
This is, after all, for me the kids.
This is the end of my rant.
Now, get off my yard. 🙂
