>>>>>You may not be watching the Winter Olympics but I am really enjoying them. Almost everything about them is un-American. We don't know the athletes, not even our own. The events are not widely attended in the U.S. But they are amazing. To ski jump over 100 meters off a high launch is incredible bravery. This is the first time for women. Sarah Hendrickson of the U.S. is out of medal contention after being the prohibitive favorite before wrecking her leg twice last year. It's a miracle she is competing at all. I also enjoy watching the Scandinavian athletes This is their spotlight.
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>>>>To be perfectly honest (and I'm gonna date myself here), I much prefer the Olympics back when ABC was broadcasting them.
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>>>>NBC is SUCH a homer that it's really sad, especially for the Winter Olympics, when the US doesn't have as many good athletes as it does in the Summer. I watch an international competition to see international competition - and I'd like to see more than the US athletes plus whomever won the medals - just as I'd like to see medal awards ceremonies for other countries gold medal winners. It's kinda like wanting to watch March Madness and all they're showing is Duke and NC - and when they lose out, we just sort of wander away aimlessly.
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>>>>Having said that, yes I'm watching what they put on in prime time and hitting on demand for the things I want to see that they're showing at 3 am CST, like curling.
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>>>Curling? That is a bridge too far for me. I suppose it's a talent but it's like watching leaf raking to me. That's the good thing about recording everything. You can pick and choose.
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>>Yeah, you and my husband have the same opinion on curling, but it's ok. There are enough of us that know the awesomeness that is curling :-)
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>Local sports radio station has a bit where they've patched together snippets of the screaming done to direct the sweepers (don't know the correct term). They've cherry picked the sounds so that it sounds as if it came out of a Grade B porno flick.
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>OTOH, not knowing anything much about the game, strategy, etc. it's still kind of cool how they can control the stone to end up just where they want it.

It's been called 'shuffleboard for giants', but there's more involved in chucking at 45 pound piece of Scottish granite down a sheet of ice I think. And what is it with the Scots and throwing really unwieldy things around? Telephone poles, big rocks.....