The Super Bowl is one of sport's greatest spectacles.
Always falling upon the spotlight in early to mid February, the annual NFL World Championship affair has become synonymous with it's traditional Sunday staging, but why is this?
Well, primarily, it's simply down to the Sports Broadcasting Ace of 1961, which forced the NFL to play the majority of its matches on a Sunday.
In fact, the federal law stipulates that it's 'illegal to stage any professional football telecast on Fridays after 6pm and all day on Saturday, from the second Friday in September to the second Saturday in December, if there is a high school or college football game taking place within 75 miles of the broadcast station.'
In essence, the law, which still stands today, was passed to help protect attendance ratings and viewership figures for American Football matches lower down the ladder - many of which take place on Friday evenings and Saturdays.
Nowadays, with the NFL season stretching beyond its historical three-month period, it's common for the NFL to schedule games during the final stretches of the season for a Saturday, given the date falls after the second Saturday in December.
However, as of yet, there has been no suggestion that the NFL would look to move it's showpiece fixture away from its typical Sunday slot, even if discussions, more so within the media, have take place.
NFL commisioner Roger Goodell suggested that TV ratings is the sole reason that the league has never looked to relocate the Super Bowl to a Friday or Saturday.
"That [idea] has been around for a long time, people have talked about that," Goodell said of moving the Super Bowl.
"The reason we haven't done it in the past is simply just from an audience standpoint - the audiences on Sunday night are so much larger.
"Fans want to have the best opportunity to be able to see the game and we want to give that to them, so Sunday night is a better night."
There are many who still oppose of that though and feel the game would be better suites to a Friday or Saturday, largely down to the fact that millions of spectators have commitments on a Monday morning, whether that be work or school.
Petitions have even been signed by hundreds of thousands of people in a bid to get the game pushed forward 24 hours to a Saturday, but it's hugely unlikely the NFL would ever budge from Sunday, especially given the fact that TV and online audience figures are continuously on the rise.
