It's just a number on a calendar

Cannot for the life of me understand what the big deal is about New Year's Day.
It's just a tick on the clock and a turn of the calendar. Some numbers change.
People attribute all sorts of new beginnings to Jan. 1. How does anybody really expect anything to change because a number on the calendar changes?
It's great for calendar makers, but not for many other people.
The world can't even agree when the year changes, or even what year it is.
We have a main calendar, but the Chinese, the Vietnamese and the Jews, just to name three nations, have different calendars and different numbers of years. And they tend to go back more than 2011 years.

New Year's Day is an event that is over as soon as it begins. The clock ticks.  Some big glittering ball slides down a pole.
WHOO-HOOOO! It's another year.
Then what?
Well, a lot of people get really drunk, some people get killed and then a really boring day ensues.
College football used to make Jan. 1 worthwhile, but the plethora of   bowl games and holding the championship game 10 days later combine to make New Year's Day bowls all but irrelevant.
The TicketCity Bowl? The Outback Bowl? Seriously?
Where's the Sugar Bowl? The Orange Bowl? And why is the Rose Bowl reduced to a minor event?
Face it. New Year's Day isn't worth getting excited about.