Friday night ... conflict

Surely I can’t be the only person in the country to notice this:

Why in God’s name are Barack Obama and John McCain holding their first debate … on a Friday night in the fall? (This Friday, in Oxford, Miss.)

You don’t have to be a sports fan to realize that Friday nights in the fall are when high school football is played.

If your child isn’t on the team, he or she might be a cheerleader or in the band or on a drill team.

If not, he or she is probably going to go to the game anyway — to socialize if nothing else.

And many, many parents of high school kids revere “Friday Night Lights” as well.

So again I ask, why did this scheduling conflict have to happen?

If the candidates didn’t realize the importance of Friday night football, they don’t deserve to be elected.

If they think that parents will record the debate and watch it later, they are even worse off.

Incredible. I wonder if their next option was Sunday morning.