--- title: Thousands Sign Teen's Petition For a Super Bowl Saturday description: Thousands have signed Frankie Ruggieri's petition to move Super Bowl Sunday to Saturday — and honestly, you should just hear him out. canonical: https://time.com/5771417/super-bowl-saturday/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-01-24T21:45:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:14.939Z og:title: Thousands Sign Reasonable Teen's Petition to Move Super Bowl Sunday to Saturday and Hear Him Out og:description: "It will get more money and get more visitors to [the] game." og:url: https://time.com/5771417/super-bowl-saturday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Thousands Sign Reasonable Teen's Petition to Move Super Bowl Sunday to Saturday and Hear Him Out twitter:description: "It will get more money and get more visitors to [the] game." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Thousands Sign Reasonable Teen's Petition to Move Super Bowl to Saturday. Let's Hear Him Out by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 24, 2020 9:45 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 24, 2020 9:45 PM UTC A New York teen wants to disrupt the annual tradition of Super Bowl Sunday as you know it with a literally [game-changing proposal](https://www.change.org/p/nfl-change-the-superbowl-to-saturday) you probably wish you’d thought of: moving the big game to Saturday, at least as of 2021. Frankie Ruggieri, 16, is making the case for rescheduling the [Super Bowl](https://time.com/5515400/best-super-bowl-commercials-2019/), putting forth the perfectly practical case that people stay up late tuning in to the [major televised event](https://time.com/5519805/super-bowl-meme-adam-levine-shirt/). As a result, they may end up getting to work or school late on Monday as a result. (It’s on Sunday because of the college football schedule for decades.) Of a Saturday timeslot, Ruggieri told [local news channel WKBW](https://www.wkbw.com/news/state-news/morning-buzz-super-bowl-saturday-a-rochester-area-teen-is-petitioning-to-move-the-big-game) that, “schools are not open the next day, no school the next morning, no work.” “Might as well make it Saturday,” he concluded. With you, Ruggieri. With you — and so are more than 36,000 people who have given the move [their signature](https://www.change.org/p/nfl-change-the-superbowl-to-saturday) to his Change.org petition as of Friday afternoon. People are predicted to call out in [massive numbers](https://workforceinstitute.org/super-bowl-fever-may-sideline-record-17-2-million-workers-on-monday/) the day after Super Bowl shindigs and shenanigans, so changing the date just a little could well help with productivity. But that’s not the only reason Ruggieri wants to move this major event. “Most of your playoff games are on Saturday,” he writes to the NFL, adding that a revised broadcast slot would “get more money and get more visitors to \[the\] game.” Perhaps the young man has got a point? Thousands Sign Teen's Petition For a Super Bowl Saturday ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5771417/super-bowl-saturday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5771417/super-bowl-saturday/"},"headline":"Thousands Sign Reasonable Teen's Petition to Move Super Bowl to Saturday. 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