when do the olympics start?
oh, you mean theyre going on right now? damn, i guess i was too busy watching the shows that beat the olympics out consistently. oops
i think we can all agree (well, except herpes-ridden ron mexico) that these olympics are irrelevant. is it b/c of the winter x games? is it b/c theyre in torino? (i had to go through torino a couple years ago. nothing great there) perhaps the tape delay kills everything? i dont have an answer, but i am more motivated to watch a rerun of wonder showzen than sit down and watch the olympics (unless i am hammered and/or with a female who somehow compels me to watch)
i wonder if it would be more popular or socially relevant if it were in this hemisphere? certainly being in a big city in this part of the world, where we could actually watch some events live, would add a little bit to the mix. even then, i cant think of much i would really be tuned in to watch.
bryant gumbel is an asshole. jay-kay, he hit it on the button, even though he decided to go a little stephen a smith with the "paucity of black athletes" but we already know that president bush and the rest of the world hate(s) black people
Do you think it becomes apparent to the Olympic peeps that their jig is up when every network is trying to lowball them for bids to get the coverage? Can you imagine being there for that? Instead of everyone throwing shitloads of money at the contract (like with the NFL for example), trying to outbid their rival networks; they're almost trying NOT to get it. It's like a shitty present at Christmas. You didn't really want it, but at least you came away with something?? "Oh, thanks Grandma, paisley pot holders... great!"
Where would you even begin your negotiations? I think I would be the kind of "realist" to start the bidding at $1. Because much higher than that and people are going to think you were just making a joke. ["Let's start the bidding "wars" at $100 million." Everyone starts to snicker...]
I wonder if anyone has ever tried to just get certain events. Like Jack/Travis/Rupert/Cornelius and Marla Singer splitting up the groups. "Ok you take brain parasites and I'll take the luge." Because if you're like me, you gotta believe that there are some (one, maybe two) events that people want to watch. But not even close to all of them. Basically, the whole thing together is shithouse, but if you could take out just figure skating or snowboarding or something and put that on your network, you'd be ahead. Way ahead.
I'll say this about the olympics; the germans are really controlling themselves. You gotta be a little disappointed about that. But just about the time I start to get down about it, I hear that Bode Miller blew another event, so I forget all about my pain.
What's the medal count for Iraq? They don't even have a team do they? I really don't know...
P.S. Have you EVER opened up an intact Butterfinger? I think every butterfinger I've ever bought has been crumbled in places. I open it and little bits and pieces start falling into my lap. What is up with this?! How many years have you been making candy bars? Obviously not enough people are getting upset about this...
okay first things first. no intact butterfinger (i was giggling incessantly by this point, and that just put me over the top). theyre stickin it to ya. STICKIN IT! lets extend this, though. have you ever eaten a baby ruth and not gotten crumbs everywhere? its like a practical joke. eat the candy bar, and youve got chocolate chunks going everywhere. though, the last time i had one of those, i think i was slightly on the tubby side, so it could have been my choco-lust encouraging me to eat too quickly...
iraq is too busy setting up the perfect democracy, modeled after the fine one we have set up here in the US, to participate in some trite olympiad. or the only snow they see is from the burned bodies and/or nuclear fallout. either way, im betting there are no iraqis doing the slalom
as for our motherland, germany, i think they must be on the same anti-depressants as paula abdul. either that or they finally convinced enough people that the holocaust never happened, so they can stop being militant and crazy all the time (and leave that to china, south korea, and stoned US snowboarders)
the olympics feature the greatest stage(s) for the world's greatest athletes. psyche. wake me up when normal programming has resumed
i think we can all agree (well, except herpes-ridden ron mexico) that these olympics are irrelevant. is it b/c of the winter x games? is it b/c theyre in torino? (i had to go through torino a couple years ago. nothing great there) perhaps the tape delay kills everything? i dont have an answer, but i am more motivated to watch a rerun of wonder showzen than sit down and watch the olympics (unless i am hammered and/or with a female who somehow compels me to watch)
i wonder if it would be more popular or socially relevant if it were in this hemisphere? certainly being in a big city in this part of the world, where we could actually watch some events live, would add a little bit to the mix. even then, i cant think of much i would really be tuned in to watch.
bryant gumbel is an asshole. jay-kay, he hit it on the button, even though he decided to go a little stephen a smith with the "paucity of black athletes" but we already know that president bush and the rest of the world hate(s) black people
Do you think it becomes apparent to the Olympic peeps that their jig is up when every network is trying to lowball them for bids to get the coverage? Can you imagine being there for that? Instead of everyone throwing shitloads of money at the contract (like with the NFL for example), trying to outbid their rival networks; they're almost trying NOT to get it. It's like a shitty present at Christmas. You didn't really want it, but at least you came away with something?? "Oh, thanks Grandma, paisley pot holders... great!"
Where would you even begin your negotiations? I think I would be the kind of "realist" to start the bidding at $1. Because much higher than that and people are going to think you were just making a joke. ["Let's start the bidding "wars" at $100 million." Everyone starts to snicker...]
I wonder if anyone has ever tried to just get certain events. Like Jack/Travis/Rupert/Cornelius and Marla Singer splitting up the groups. "Ok you take brain parasites and I'll take the luge." Because if you're like me, you gotta believe that there are some (one, maybe two) events that people want to watch. But not even close to all of them. Basically, the whole thing together is shithouse, but if you could take out just figure skating or snowboarding or something and put that on your network, you'd be ahead. Way ahead.
I'll say this about the olympics; the germans are really controlling themselves. You gotta be a little disappointed about that. But just about the time I start to get down about it, I hear that Bode Miller blew another event, so I forget all about my pain.
What's the medal count for Iraq? They don't even have a team do they? I really don't know...
P.S. Have you EVER opened up an intact Butterfinger? I think every butterfinger I've ever bought has been crumbled in places. I open it and little bits and pieces start falling into my lap. What is up with this?! How many years have you been making candy bars? Obviously not enough people are getting upset about this...
okay first things first. no intact butterfinger (i was giggling incessantly by this point, and that just put me over the top). theyre stickin it to ya. STICKIN IT! lets extend this, though. have you ever eaten a baby ruth and not gotten crumbs everywhere? its like a practical joke. eat the candy bar, and youve got chocolate chunks going everywhere. though, the last time i had one of those, i think i was slightly on the tubby side, so it could have been my choco-lust encouraging me to eat too quickly...
iraq is too busy setting up the perfect democracy, modeled after the fine one we have set up here in the US, to participate in some trite olympiad. or the only snow they see is from the burned bodies and/or nuclear fallout. either way, im betting there are no iraqis doing the slalom
as for our motherland, germany, i think they must be on the same anti-depressants as paula abdul. either that or they finally convinced enough people that the holocaust never happened, so they can stop being militant and crazy all the time (and leave that to china, south korea, and stoned US snowboarders)
the olympics feature the greatest stage(s) for the world's greatest athletes. psyche. wake me up when normal programming has resumed
posted by bruce dickinson at 2/23/2006 01:54:00 PM
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now you two ladies know i gotta reply to that. hahaha...so we'll take it from the top. you're right...american idol has higher ratings than the olympics -- for the two hours a week that it's on. another show here and there have higher ratings too, but which station had by far the highest ratings (nearly double) for the week during hte first week of the olympics? oh yeah...nbc...the channel airing the winter olympics. so there must be a pretty solid following for nbc to dominate it's competition over a 7 day period, especially considering they dont' have the HIGHEST rated show. secondly, how are these olympics any less relevant than the summer olympics? what makes the summer olympics MORE important than the winter ones? that's just a bunch of talk with nothing to support it. you're right, tape delay hurts viewership in the olympics; everyone knows that. but were you watching when they were in salt lake city 4 years ago? don't pretend like you'd ever consider wtaching 'em if it werent' for the tape delay...we know you're full of it! hahaha...you'd rather watch wonder showzen? well...that probably explains enough right there, i suppose...any gumbel was wrong on every single point he made. just because there's not a bunch of black athletes in the winter olympics doesn't mean these aren't the best athletes in their respective sports. 90% of norway is white. i would imagine there is a similar percentage in sweden/russia/japan/finland/other major players in the winter olympics. so gumbel is just an idiot on the race issue. plus the "pseudo-athletes" comment about figure skaters. how is this NOT a sport? OH, the judges...yeah i forgot...no sport has a judge...boxing CERTAINLY doesn't have judges...oh wait...SHIT...it does! and baseball umpires aren't judges when it comes to calling balls and strikes...oh wait...that's EXACTLY what they do...they JUDGE elements of the SPORT. so it can't be the judge issue...so what prevents this from being a sport? the only thing i can come up wiht here is ignorance. what else makes sense? nothing, really...and as far as "underbidding" for the olympics, nbc is paying hundreds of millions for broadcast rights, because over the two week period they're on, the ratings KILL other stations! and it's not just one or two events people want ot watch. otherwise the ratings for the olympics would be significant peaks and valleys, which they're not. they're consistently solid over two weeks. and lastly, as far as obscure countries competing in the olympics, iraq does not have a team; you're right. but pakistan, iran, azerbaijan, bulgaria, and boatloads of other random countries have athletes competing. iraq's just a little too busy trying to avoid a civil war right now. lastly, the olympics DO feature the greatest stage(s) for the world's greatest athletes! you say "psyche" after that, but if that's a joke, then what DOES feature them? you guys are so foolish to say teh winter olympics aren't completely entertaining and worthy of attention. hwo would you know it's not if you don't watch?
So Im just wondering what this curling "sport" is all about. How does one go about becoming a curling olympian? Do they suck at everything else, and this is their only change at olympic glory?
well, they all usually start out on the basic push-broom at age 13. whoever shows aptitude from there is taken into the advanced program which eventually leads to curling. its much more challenging than most people think...or it's shuffleboard with people
haha yeah i think you just have to win the shuffleboard tournament on the senior citizens cruise to qualify for the curling team.
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