Sportscasterbuilder and Curlers
You can usually tell where a sportscaster ranks in a network's pecking order by which events they're assigned to cover. The hotshots are given primo events like figure skating, opening/closing ceremonies etc. while the gumshoes are given curling. The manager calls the commentator into his office and says with a wink "Hey John, you got bialthlon again. Very important. You're singlehandedly carrying the 2-4 am timeslot. I'll try to get you table tennis in Beijing in '08."
That's like being the kid who got assigned to sit next to the teacher on the bus during a four hour school field trip.
OK now you got me started on curling. I caught some of it (like I like to catch a cold) and saw some guys standing around in golf shirts, on the ice, but not wearing ice skates! I thought they were called hockey coaches. Winter Games and golf shirts? Hmmm... I don't want to knock curlers because obviously it takes a lot of shuffleboard skills accumulated through dozens of cruise vacations to do what they do, but this leads me to think that golf should be added to the Summer Games. Or croquet maybe...
How about we start another whole type of Olympics for relatively slow paced events like curling, golf, croquet, billiards, bocce, backgammon, scrabble, eating, breathing, batting an eyelid? Gotta go, feeling sleepy.
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That's like being the kid who got assigned to sit next to the teacher on the bus during a four hour school field trip.
OK now you got me started on curling. I caught some of it (like I like to catch a cold) and saw some guys standing around in golf shirts, on the ice, but not wearing ice skates! I thought they were called hockey coaches. Winter Games and golf shirts? Hmmm... I don't want to knock curlers because obviously it takes a lot of shuffleboard skills accumulated through dozens of cruise vacations to do what they do, but this leads me to think that golf should be added to the Summer Games. Or croquet maybe...
How about we start another whole type of Olympics for relatively slow paced events like curling, golf, croquet, billiards, bocce, backgammon, scrabble, eating, breathing, batting an eyelid? Gotta go, feeling sleepy.
Thoughts? Comments?
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posted by UltimateWriter at 8:54 AM
7 Comments:
Add to that: meditative walking, bathroom scrubbing, dog washing, and laundry hanging. Or perhaps... snow shoveling?
...and powerlifting cannot get int...such a shame...but it is boring..and I do it..haha..
I wouldn't mind sitting next to my teacher on the bus if HE is cute. Okay, that was kinda shallow!
Or ballroom dancing. Why is that so popular now? Sigh, and they say the world is progressing.
WTF is Trampolining? Last year was the first I saw that...I think it's a sport that Canada made up cos we got the gold for it, and we suck in getting gold in any summer sports.
It kinda devalues the Gold Medal. I mean, how much physical prowess, conditioning and skill could it take? Sign me up for 2010!
~Mike
jlb: laundry hanging would have stiff competition
cm: u need to launch a campaign to the ioc for that
kmm: kiddie pool shallow
oilf: cause its on tv
mikechau: to the trampoline batman!
ppd: cricket is gaining popularity
ma: i'll join you on the curling relay team
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