Oh my my. The Olympics are presented in HD, but even the glory of all that is good and pure in high definition can't save a medicore Olympics. My thoughts:
Like Greg Storey said, I'm glad to see Bode Miller fall flat. It's not anti-patriotic, it's anti-big-headed-egotistical-idiot.
The bobsled. Who thought of this event? Who thought that putting 2-4 people in a tin can on ski's and sending it down the hill would Olympic worthy. How hard is it to screw that up? You're in a tube for futon's sake.
The cross country skiing. Yawn. Does anyone else have phantom pains while watching these crazies?
The ice dancing. Do I even need to mention this? Aren't we tortured enough with Dancing with the Stars?
The NBC. Or did they change their name to NCW, National Commercial Whore?
Here's what I'd like to see. Let's spice things up. For the bobsled, hide land mines filled with paint throughout the track. People with the fastest time, AND least amount of paint on their sled win. For cross country skiing, let some hungry polar bears loose on the track. This brings a new excitement for competitor and spectator alike. For ice dancing, let's get John Wayne on them and fire live rounds at their skates while they twizzle across the ice. For NBC, let's let a real network handle it. You don't have Lost, get over it. ABC, you're up.
Keegan says,
Hahaha, awesome! All of those ideas are brilliant. Here is another idea for ice dancing:
Melt the ice when they start dancing. Fill the water with sharks, and other human eaters. This will turn ice dancing into ice jumping...for your life.
Posted @ February 20, 2006Ted Drake says,
no, no, you've got it all wrong.
Posted @ February 20, 2006It's all about the mashups.
We need to combine bobsledding with curling.
I'd love to see a bunch of fools with brooms and sneakers chased down the ice tube by an out of control sled and several granite hockey pucks.
niko says,
i say hd not enough. i want LIVE hd. this tape delay junk just doesn't cut it in a world of live radio and internet and sports/news tv. I mean, it's like watching a tivo'd version of the superbowl 10 hours after it took place and everyone is already talking about it (except the superbowl has WAY better commercials). No thanks. I love dvr's but just not for sports. It's about being in the moment. And for all you peeps who swear by 'recording the game', I take great pleasure in mentioning the outcome or the big play even though you haven't seen it. Get committed people.
Posted @ February 20, 2006ysbl says,
the olympics are on?!?
Posted @ February 20, 2006Keegan says,
Speaking of bobsledding and curling...
Posted @ February 20, 2006RCP says,
I'm watching the women's ice dancing thing now. Here are a bunch of girls who have devoted their whole life to this one moment. Then all of their dreams come crashing down because they land their triple-butt-twist-axle a half inch off. Thats depressing.
Posted @ February 21, 2006Nuge says,
I'm with you... my friend and I were thinking about Winter Olympic events the other day and who came up with that stuff. Let's see here, there's skating and skiing, what variations can we make? Guns, people like guns, so let's have people ski and shoot guns (Biathalon). Short track speed skating (not quite speed skating), but is that like the short bus?
Posted @ February 22, 2006Then we started talking about how the foods we eat/drink came about. I want to meet the first guy who drank cow's milk and ask him, "What were you thinking?!"
Noah says,
Nuge - Love the pure creamy goodness of straight-from-the-tit milk.
Posted @ February 22, 2006