Shoveling FTW!
I am reminded once again of a column by some Chicago writer, Mike Royko I think, who said that we needed Olympic sports like snow shoveling and putting chains on car tires if Americans are going to do well at the winter games. Here in Seattle there is easy access to cold, white-covered places, and they're talking a lot about local kids going to the winter Olympics. But throughout most of the country, luging, curling, and hell, even skiing are unheard of. I guess I'm gonna be the Ugly American again, but there is something otherworldly and foreign about the Olympics, like when they have some kind of strange puppet on stilts or a mascot that looks like he's from Jupiter. Maybe I kind find a hockey game to watch, I need a sports fix.
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Funny, with the addition of all the X-Games staples, people from other countries claim that they added sports just to give the US more medals at the Olympics they traditionally did poor at (Winter.)
But, the Winter Olympics make for much better watching than the Summer ones. Hockey, Curling, and Short Track Speed Skating are all awesome.
Mmmm, Cassie Johnson...
Olympic hockey is the best hockey in the world too. Seeing the skaters who are actually good enough to use all of that space...and with the rules changes in the NHL this year essentially being much more like the Olys, the players won't have a period of adjustment. Should be great! That being said, the U.S. is old and creaky...lucky to get a medal.
NHL? What the hell is that? (Yes, I'm from Chicago, but how many rabid non-Red-Wings, non-Rangers fans exist at this point?)
Winter Olympics are more entertaining than the Summer counterpart. (They've sexed up the Gymnastics recently with the "super-slow-mo" that uses multiple blur-free still shots in sequence.) I suppose there's a higher "speed factor" in the Winter games.
Yes, all the "duuuuude" sports added to the Olympics have helped we Yanks, but I see quite a few non-American talent that put up some competition.
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