The Wonders of Curling
Ok as much as the winter Olympics are a huge waste of time, think about this little sport called Curling. Nothing is more entertaining then watching grown men and women play around on the ice sliding giant rocks onto a giant target. It is the saddest excuse of a sport I have ever seen and thats including NASCAR, Horse Back Riding, and those girls that sit on the baseline at basketball and football games and cheer on the home team.
Yes, I said it cheerleading is not a sport. There are a lot of things that cheerleaders can do that I can't. Like putting other cheerleaders up over their heads, splits, backflips, etc. that doesn't make it a sport. When a cheerleader is in a competition I will consider it a sport, but when they are simply just cheering on the sideline it is not, but back to curling....
Curling is awesome because it is so unique in being called a sport. I would consider it a skill, but really if you can aim you can curl. Also is it really necessary to have four people on a team? I mean those teammates that just use the brushes to smooth the ice are completely useless, they're like the two middle guys in the four man bobsled, you subtract them from the bobsled equation you have an entirely different event, the two man bobsled. Imagine that...two man curling? The insanity that would follow...
Has anyone else noticed that almost all of the events in the Winter Olympics are a spinoff of some other event that already exists. Some examples include 4 man and 2 man bobsled, Ice Dancing and Pair Figure Skating, The skeleton is really just the luge flipped over and turned around, plus many more spinoff events its like the Law and Order of sports so many series that really are the same thing being on the air at the same time claiming to be something different.
The real reason I love curling is for the Johnson girls of the United States team...and now after researching it I love the whole team because they are the Anna Kournikova of Curling and maybe this entire Winter Games. Sarah Hughes has nothing on the Women's Curling team.
Yes, I said it cheerleading is not a sport. There are a lot of things that cheerleaders can do that I can't. Like putting other cheerleaders up over their heads, splits, backflips, etc. that doesn't make it a sport. When a cheerleader is in a competition I will consider it a sport, but when they are simply just cheering on the sideline it is not, but back to curling....
Curling is awesome because it is so unique in being called a sport. I would consider it a skill, but really if you can aim you can curl. Also is it really necessary to have four people on a team? I mean those teammates that just use the brushes to smooth the ice are completely useless, they're like the two middle guys in the four man bobsled, you subtract them from the bobsled equation you have an entirely different event, the two man bobsled. Imagine that...two man curling? The insanity that would follow...
Has anyone else noticed that almost all of the events in the Winter Olympics are a spinoff of some other event that already exists. Some examples include 4 man and 2 man bobsled, Ice Dancing and Pair Figure Skating, The skeleton is really just the luge flipped over and turned around, plus many more spinoff events its like the Law and Order of sports so many series that really are the same thing being on the air at the same time claiming to be something different.
The real reason I love curling is for the Johnson girls of the United States team...and now after researching it I love the whole team because they are the Anna Kournikova of Curling and maybe this entire Winter Games. Sarah Hughes has nothing on the Women's Curling team.
posted by Joe Hegarty at 2:37 PM
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