Much of the conversation regarding an inevitable 18th regular-season game centers on the fact that it would put the Super Bowl on the day before President’s Day .

Sometimes, however, the Super Bowl to end an 18-game season would overshoot the three-day weekend.

The headline of the Sports Business Journal blurb was that, on Wednesday, the Daytona International Speedway announced that the 2027 Daytona 500 will happen on February 21 . That’s because the Super Bowl will be played a week earlier, on February 14. Which lands, for 2027, on President’s Day weekend.

Under the current 17-game, one-bye, post-Labor Day format, it will happen again in 2038, 2044, 2049, and 2055. (MDS did the deep calendar dive a few years ago, when the season expanded to 17 games.)

Of course, the seas

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