P-F25: Week 3 NFL Bonus - Two MNF Games Is the Best!

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Thiiiiiiis is your captain speaking. For our NFL Week 3 bonus we asked why doubling up Monday Night Football is the best. The cabin chimed in with answers ranging from bedtime complaints to bold mathematical proofs. We'll board in reverse order.

Economy:
These all felt like they belonged together. Simple, somewhat punchy one-liners that leaned on numbers, timing, or just the joy of more football. This group wasn't weighed down with heavy baggage. They just gave their quick tray-table takes. 

• Swamp Dogs (DR): Twice as much is always at least three times as nice.
• Bevo XV (DW): Two is always better than one!
• Unsolicited Dicker Kicks (MK): When everyone’s on prime time, no one’s on prime time.
• Accidentchild (MN): There's 2 games. Which is better than 1.
• Shot Callers (RD): More football is better!
• Mediocrity (RH): I get to stay up past my bedtime (maybe).
• Jerry’s Gerrymander-ers (KW): It doesn’t, the second game is past my bedtime.
• Far Left-Handed (GN): Because I get to ask a question like this.

Premium Economy:
Climbing a little higher into the bonus skies, some passengers added a little mustard to their pretzels. This boarding group wasn’t just about counting games or stretching bedtimes but got the upgrade for adding some vices and pop culture to the cabin.

From TV salvation, wings, gambling confessions, fantasy drama, and yes… a Susanna Hoffs shoutout from the exit row that no one saw coming.

• A Northmen (AN): There is never anything good on TV, until NOW!
• TEAMNAME (BR): Double wings
• 18 National Championships (CG): I am a degenerate gambler...
• Wookie Cookies (KH): Susanna Hoffs still got it going on.
• Aint Nothin but an Aint (KS): Double the fun, double the pickem, double the fantasy football misery
• Pure Random Cubed (CN): Two games mean more storylines, more highlight plays, and more chances for your fantasy lineup (or bets) to pull off a comeback. Plus, it stretches that weekend-football feeling a little longer — you don’t have to wait until Thursday to get your next fix.

Business Class:

This boarding group all got upgrades because it really seemed like they needed it. The group kept its carry-ons light. They leaned into the Monday mood -- the grind of work hours, the need for a release, and the simple joy of dodging a Buck and Aikman broadcast. Ring the flight attendants for a free in-flight beverage.

• Queenbspice (CC): Monday's gonna Monday and I need this release
• Cuernos Largos (CT): Case of the Mondays during work hours
• Bite a Kneecap Offs (RK): We get a Monday game without Buck and Aikman

First Class:

Our first-class upgrade for the week came from the AP Microeconomics passenger in seat 1A, who delivered a lecture on the law of diminishing marginal utility. Shifting an extra game to Monday isn’t just fun, it’s economically genius. Eleven Verticals (ON) is cruising. Enjoy the champagne service sparkling grape juice service. Cheers.

• Eleven Verticals (ON): After a hard start to the week, who doesn't want to watch MORE football? We are overloaded with games on Saturday and Sunday, can we afford to spare one extra game for a rainy day? Or rather, a rainy MONday. As someone currently enrolled in AP Microeconomics, I have an analytical reason to favor two Monday games. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that for each unit of a good consumed after a point, the enjoyment will decrease exponentially. This IS true for football. While we all love more football, by game number 13 of the day, sometimes our enjoyment isn't as high when the lowly raiders drop 63 points against Herbert and Co. Now, if we pushed one game to Monday, we get greater average enjoyment out of Sunday's games AND greater enjoyment out of the extra Monday game that would have been a forgettable 3:30pm kick. Moving football to Monday is economically GENIUS.