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Post by Outlaw85 on Feb 17, 2006 8:20:25 GMT -6
Anyone watching the Winter Olympics?
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Post by heathwaldrop on Feb 17, 2006 9:46:11 GMT -6
I haven't seen a single minute, which is unusual for me...but I'm up to my eyeballs in Progress and haven't done a single thing but work for the last six weeks.
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Post by Outlaw85 on Feb 17, 2006 10:43:02 GMT -6
Well you haven't missed much. Seems like everytime I turn on the games all I see is curling!!!! Getting kinda tired of watching shuffleboard on ice. Why is ithis an Olympic sport? According to the announcers there are 1.5 million curlers in the world and over a million are in Canada. Keep this game in Canada!!!!
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Post by heathwaldrop on Feb 17, 2006 11:33:22 GMT -6
Curling NEVER used to be televised during the Olympic Games. It has become "geek chic" the last couple of Games so it has started seeing the airways.
What used to be shown more instead of curling was stuff like hockey (boring), cross-country skiing (boring), ski jumping (kind of cool) and luge (interesting for the first few runs but dull after that unless somebody wrecks). I think the networks have cut back on some of those sports to show stuff like curling.
BTW, have you seen anything on this guy Jeremy Bloom? I read an interesting article on him last week. Former high-profile college football player who turned into a high-profile freestyle skier. And then he became a model. And a TV show host. And now he wants to declare for the NFL draft even though he hasn't stepped foot on a field in like three years.
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Post by mzsmartypantz on Feb 17, 2006 11:48:34 GMT -6
Curling makes no sense to me at all. I giggle everytime they show clips of it on tv.
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Post by Outlaw85 on Feb 17, 2006 12:47:49 GMT -6
Bloom was favored to win a Gold in the moguls but finished 5th. Apparently we was good enough at football to be invited to the NFL combines.
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Post by heathwaldrop on Feb 17, 2006 14:02:56 GMT -6
He's basically the fastest white man alive I think. Really explosive kick returner. The only thing is he's way too small to be an NFL receiver. He's something like 5-9, 175.
He got into a big hullaballoo with the NCAA over his skiing endorsements. He was trying both to ski on a world-class level and play football at Colorado. He had an awesome freshman season where he was considered to be one of the top four or five kick returners nationally, then took off the next year to ski. He came back and didn't fare as well, and that's when his NCAA problems started. NCAA wouldn't let him play again. Ended up in court for several years.
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