Curling Fever: Catch It (sort of)
I am watching Curling at the Olympics and we are losing 3-1 to Germany. Still not exactly sure how the game is scored, but it appears to be scored like horseshoes, or jarts (goddamn safety conscience society, we want jarts back!), closest to spot wins the points.
With all the money spent on the Olympics you think they could give the commentators a telestrator to point things out? Isn't this 30 year old technology? Shouldn't this be standard? How about a stone tracker to watch the path, they do it with hurricanes, why not stones that slide at 2 miles an hour?
Curling doesn't seem to be the most fun game to practice, its slow and methodical, like watching a cuckoo clock. Unlike basketball, where you can shoot freethrows or jumpshots over and over, you just slide stones back and forth, or sweep. How do you practice sweeping? Is there a machine at the gym to built up those muscles?
Its also not the most exciting of sports for the average American, which means the only time you hear about it is during the Olympics or in an esoteric sports joke. There's no chance of huge crashes (which is why X-Games is always exciting), its never on SportsCenter and it appears that anyone with a broom could play this game.
Well, we got our butts kicked so bad that we didn't even get to finish the match. The score, 7-5.
With all the money spent on the Olympics you think they could give the commentators a telestrator to point things out? Isn't this 30 year old technology? Shouldn't this be standard? How about a stone tracker to watch the path, they do it with hurricanes, why not stones that slide at 2 miles an hour?
Curling doesn't seem to be the most fun game to practice, its slow and methodical, like watching a cuckoo clock. Unlike basketball, where you can shoot freethrows or jumpshots over and over, you just slide stones back and forth, or sweep. How do you practice sweeping? Is there a machine at the gym to built up those muscles?
Its also not the most exciting of sports for the average American, which means the only time you hear about it is during the Olympics or in an esoteric sports joke. There's no chance of huge crashes (which is why X-Games is always exciting), its never on SportsCenter and it appears that anyone with a broom could play this game.
Well, we got our butts kicked so bad that we didn't even get to finish the match. The score, 7-5.
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