The day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday. Period. Full stop!
Since the internet became the internet, I have been as vocal and as active as I could be about this topic. First, other than July the 4th and Thanksgiving, there’s no holiday more American than the Super Bowl.
- Folks are tailgating (drinking) early.
- The food is fattening AF and there are mounds of it.
- The pregame anthem and fly overs are only a bald eagle away from an American trinity.
- And the entire event is corporate sponsored.
If that’s not America, I’ll kiss your ass.
As a DFS addict, adding another week to the schedule last year was a dream come true. But it wasn’t until I heard the recent “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast with Josh Allen and George Kittle that I heard George Kittle propose the perfect solution.
Each Team Gets Two Bye Weeks!!
Before I get into the details, a few observations about this particular podcast.
First, I swear Josh Allen is forcing me to be a Buffalo Bills fan and I’m NOT happy about it!!
I love upstate NY. But I have always been a Bills hater. In fact, my first real gambling success was that I was blessed to be in college in upstate NY during all of the Bill’s Super Bowl runs. With most of my campus being locals, I took action from everyone I could find. I think some of my fraternity brothers still owe me $ from those games. (I paid off my college truck with the winnings)
It’s been easy to dislike, or at least not like, or not care about the Bill’s organization ever since the mid 90’s. However, that changed when the six foot five gunslinger from Firebeaugh California, via Wyoming, came to town.
Yes, NFL fans now like Josh’s level of play. But, us DFS folks have been fans from the beginning. Quite frankly, being on the Josh Allen train early in the 2019 season, and SUPER heavy in 2020 bestball drafts, was one of the most profitable things I’ve ever done.
We all love the Konami-code of running QBs, but what really attracted me to Josh Allen was his accuracy improvement. Go pull up any quote from scouts, reporters, and commentators in 2017 or 2018. Pull the stats. They both tell the same story… Josh Allen was not NFL-level accurate.
Big, athletic, but not accurate. How many times have we seen this story play out poorly?
So what did Josh do? Just like he did growing up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, he got to work. Who doesn’t love that kind of work ethic?
Over the course of one summer he went from the bottom of accuracy to almost the top. And he’s not being compared to scrubs. Last time I checked: Brady, Rodgers, Mahomes, and Russ Wilson still play in the NFL.
Plus, he’s just the nicest guy in the world. And daggummit, I’m now a convert.
I’m a professional, so I still don’t cheer for laundry, but I wear my throwback Bills hat on most days, and on Sundays in the fall, I often sport the Allen jersey, with Bills belt, and Bills socks. Still no sheet pizzas, blue cheese, or Genessee products, but tons of Bills love.
You were right Bills Mafia, I was wrong.
George Kittle Rocks!
When the topic of 2 bye weeks comes up on the podcast, the banter among the boys quickly turns to people calling George Kittle “soft” and “weak”, for saying two bye weeks is a good idea. When I heard these things I was as shocked as the boys were.
I can tell you who wasn’t saying George Kittle was “soft” and “weak” and that’s NFL GMs, anyone who Kittle blocks on a regular basis, and NFL fans with working eyeballs.
Kittle is a beast. Period. End of story. Every GM in the NFL would LOVE to have him on their team and every QB and running back on his team is happy as hell he’s blocking for them.
And what he does after the catch is highlight reel gold. Even in SF’s run-first climate, and given the QBs that Kittle has had during his brief career, his numbers are already amazing, but if Kittle played in a pass-first offense, his numbers would be through the roof.
And his two bye weeks idea is the right approach! Here are the benefits of two bye weeks…
Two bye weeks enables these Sunday gladiators to gain some well needed rest during the season.
Less superstars being out due to injury.
One more week to gamble on.
One more week for TV rights.
One more week to hit the nuts for those DFS addicts out there.
And the BEST feature with two bye weeks and thus a one week shift in the schedule…
We would then get the day after the Super Bowl off thanks to it being President’s Day!!!
With many/most Americans getting off work the day after the Super Bowl would turn an already quintessential American event into American holiday gold.
Fire up Tom Cruise flying the jet overhead and resurrect Whitney Houston to sing that anthem, we’re all getting drunk, watching commercials, then sleeping in the next morning!!!
Bless you George Kittle and your wonderful mind.
Sincerely yours,
America
#2byeweeks