Project 4

Moving the Super Bowl and oscars to Saturday Nights

Introduction:

This project is going to be about how the NFL should move the Super Bowl to Saturday Nights instead of Sunday nights. I will go into detail and explain reasons why this would be a good move for the NFL.

Audience

I will be talking about an article I found on The Washington Post. The article I found is called “Move the Super Bowl, already. And the Oscars. And most of HBO.” written by Alyssa Rosenberg. In the article, Rosenberg agrees with highschool junior Frankie Ruggeri on how the NFL, Oscars, and other mainstream TV networks should move broadcasting to Saturday nights instead of Sunday.

Right out the gate, Rosenberg comes saying, “2020 offers a particularly punishing schedule for American television watchers” (par. 3). I knew from here that she was all for the idea of moving the Super Bowl and other TV shows to Saturday nights. To me, Rosenbergs's purpose of this article is to inflame all the people that can’t watch the shows that air on Sundays. It also plays a role to persuade maybe someone that is high up in one of the organizations to actually make a change. The audience she is targeting are the people that are against the move. Rosenberg states in the article, “the NFL moving to Sunday nights started in 1987 when the independent U.S. Football League collapsed” (par. 5). The Oscars on the other hand have always been on Sunday nights.

Rosenberg's attitude

Rosenberg is clear as day bias against these shows being aired on Sunday. The tone she uses to me seems like she is actually mad or upset. Rosenberg did a great job persuading the target audience. Rosenberg states in paragraph 9, “Enough. As an act of mercy, and as a subsidy to other American businesses, the Super Bowl, the Oscars and the premiere night of scripted television should bump up a night to Saturday.” This was more than enough evidence that Rosenberg was indeed upset about these Sunday broadcastings.

ROSENBERG'S DICTION

She uses words like subsidy and gambit which are not commonly used words. She uses subsidy to explain why these shows should move to Saturdays. She says, “ As an act of mercy, and as a subsidy to other American businesses, the Super Bowl, and Oscars...should bump up a night to Saturday” (par. 9). Rosenberg uses gambit to show how all these networks moving was a gamble and how successful it was. She says, “The gambit was so successful that network rivals… tried to muscle in on that real estate” (par. 6).

Conclusion

Rosenberg also did a good job using statistics to back up her claims. She states, “The average American commute grew to 27 minutes in 2018, and a 2017 analysis of data from the American Community Survey found that more than half of American workers arrive at their jobs by 8:14 in the morning. Last year, one study calculated that as many as 10.7 million people would skip a Monday workday after the “Game of Thrones” finale aired” (par.8). You can’t deny numbers. According to all this information, you can say with no doubt Rosenberg is definitely against these Sunday night broadcastings. Towards the end of the article, she goes on to try and give the reader a picture of what it would be like if these shows were not aired on Sunday. She says, “With the prospect of a better night’s sleep ahead of us , we might be better-equipped to fight off the “ Sunday Sads ``'' (par.9).

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