Who knew that the most exciting thing on the Olympics yesterday would be curling? Could you or could you not cut the tension between the US team and team Suisse with a knife?
Curling is often mocked, I think, because a) it looks as though it would be easy (though I suspect it is quite difficult and I would be about as good at it as I am at something like bowling. I suck at bowling.) and b) it is undeniably goofy.
This morning, however, I have a new admiration for it. I was especially interested in watching after Allen told me that one of the guys kicked his own brother off the team (why? I still don’t know why?) and there is nothing that will pique my interest like a scandal (and one of the Cain and Abel variety is hard to turn up). But I can’t find a news item on this anywhere and so now I’m wondering if Allen told me this simply so that I would watch curling. I’m not saying he’s lying, per se, just embellishing the truth. Allen? Care to comment?*
A long time skiier (over thirty years now), I am typically appalled by snowboarding. I don’t want you hogging my slopes with your crazy-assed hyper style of movement and I especially don’t want to see you sprawled out as a gaggle in the middle of my moguls, thank you very much.
With that said, I watched the snowboard cross (women’s) for the first time last night and found it utterly exhilarating. Have you seen this? It’s like motorcross except on snow and snowboards. Whoa! It’s cool. I would never want to do it, but it’s fun to watch.
To sum up: curling and snowboard cross, exciting; everything else, not so much.
* Read Allen’s retort in the comment’s section below
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