Catholics meet on Sunday to give God his due, as he demanded in the Ten Commandments. Jesus is God, and is an intrinsic part of that ceremony. I'm not sure Jesus rising from the dead is what makes Sunday the issue.

Catholics are explicitly, overtly allowed to work on Sunday. It is, however, a venal sin to work on Sunday (a) at the expense of worship and reverence (in other words, don't skip Mass) and (b) when you had a reasonable option not to. Five generations of American Catholic men appear to have established the convention that Sunday afternoon football incurs minimal expense to revering Jesus.

Protestants would agree on the work thing. After all we have pastors don't we? I am really interested to hear an expansion of what you mean by "give God his due, as he demanded in the Ten Commandments." I am not sure which you are referring to, but that is probably my own ignorance of such things. Also we protestants like Sunday football too. Not me personally, but that comes from not growing up in the US. :)