Olympics
Its time for the Olympics. Yay?
Sure, why not. After all its the Winter Olympics, which are about 500 times more interesting than the Summer Olympics. Admittedly, I don't like the winter, snow, or any of these sports, but I find them more entertaining than swimming and running. Skiing seems mildly interesting and you get the odd spectacle of sports like luge and curling.
This year the games are in Vancouver, which is famous for lenient marijuana laws and gloom. Its also now famous for not having any snow for the games. They've had to truck it in.
Stephen Colbert has taken an obsessive interest in the Olympics this year too. He's sponsoring the speed skating team and has been dubbed a member of the broadcast team by moron and head of NBC Sports Dick Ebersol. He'll be hosting his show from Vancouver this week.
What should a viewer look for? Hell if I know. The mildly hot chick seems like she's not going to do much on skis and in spite of NBC's wall to wall advertising, no one cares about Apollo Ohno. If you're one of the five people who care about hockey, I guess you can watch that and if you like energy drinks and jacked up trucks, then I'm sure you're already following Shaun White's career adamantly.
So far, Gov, it's been nice but I'm nonplussed. NBC coverage leaves much to be desired as they try to oversell dimwit snowboarder interviews to the public. These kids are world class athletes insofar as that sport goes, but they also smoke more dope than Cheech and Chong since the early 70s . . . per day . . . and their quotes are about as spellbinding as a conversation with a fungo bat. Dan Patrick embarrassed himself last week chatting up three lady boarders that seriously reminded me of female Beavis & Buttheads . . . less talk, more action.
And no freaking curling, please!
I have a lot of problems with the NBC broadcasts, starting with the tape delay on everything. It makes sense when the games are overseas, but when they are in the same region, at least some of it should be live.
Snowboarding doesn't do it for me. I've got it on now, and while Shaun White is certainly impressive, most of this looks like teenagers at the skate park.
We need more luge and skeleton.
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