Olympic Fever
I would first like to say that from now on, I would like to be known as the white sausage.
Man am I caught up with the Olympic fever. I love the Olympics. Since the weather was so cold and crappy all weekend, Rachel and I watched a lot of Olympic coverage. I sort of have mixed feelings about some of the newer events like the snowboarding halfpipe. But I guess if you consider curling a sport, so is the half pipe. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of skill and unbelievable acrobatics involved in snowboarding in a halfpipe, but I don’t really see it as an Olympic event. Its fine for the X-Games, but I don’t know if they should be handing out gold medals in it in Torino.
On Opie and Anthony they read this list of sports which used to exist in past Olympics. One of my favorites, and one that really shows how times have changed is an event called live pigeon shooting. And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. They would release live pigeons from cages and men with shotguns would have to shoot them. I guess this is why the clay pigeon was invented for skeet shooting. A sport I really miss though is barrel jumping. I guess the thrill of barrel jumping is similar to the thrill of Nascar. It’s ok when they actually jump and clear the barrels, but when they miss and crash, its that much better.
We had our fair share of snow this weekend. Not as much as folks in the northeast, but we got a lot more than we’ve had in the past 2 years. Fortunately for us, it snowed here for about 6-8 hours before it really started to stick. On grassy areas, and places like our back deck, it stuck almost from the beginning. So we probably had close to a foot and half of snow out there. But on the roads and sidewalks it was probably more like 8-10 inches. The snow was its highest out by the sliding glass doors on the deck. I guess the wind swirled around there and we had a drift well over 2 feet. It was fun, and it happened on a weekend, so the major roads were all in pretty good shape today for my commute in.
Here’s are a few pics from yesterday…
Man am I caught up with the Olympic fever. I love the Olympics. Since the weather was so cold and crappy all weekend, Rachel and I watched a lot of Olympic coverage. I sort of have mixed feelings about some of the newer events like the snowboarding halfpipe. But I guess if you consider curling a sport, so is the half pipe. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of skill and unbelievable acrobatics involved in snowboarding in a halfpipe, but I don’t really see it as an Olympic event. Its fine for the X-Games, but I don’t know if they should be handing out gold medals in it in Torino.
On Opie and Anthony they read this list of sports which used to exist in past Olympics. One of my favorites, and one that really shows how times have changed is an event called live pigeon shooting. And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. They would release live pigeons from cages and men with shotguns would have to shoot them. I guess this is why the clay pigeon was invented for skeet shooting. A sport I really miss though is barrel jumping. I guess the thrill of barrel jumping is similar to the thrill of Nascar. It’s ok when they actually jump and clear the barrels, but when they miss and crash, its that much better.
We had our fair share of snow this weekend. Not as much as folks in the northeast, but we got a lot more than we’ve had in the past 2 years. Fortunately for us, it snowed here for about 6-8 hours before it really started to stick. On grassy areas, and places like our back deck, it stuck almost from the beginning. So we probably had close to a foot and half of snow out there. But on the roads and sidewalks it was probably more like 8-10 inches. The snow was its highest out by the sliding glass doors on the deck. I guess the wind swirled around there and we had a drift well over 2 feet. It was fun, and it happened on a weekend, so the major roads were all in pretty good shape today for my commute in.
Here’s are a few pics from yesterday…
5 Comments:
I am all over the Olympics! I wish there was more coverage. I am currently watching women's curling, fantastic! Did you catch any speed skating yet?
Womens curling, lucky you. I've only seen mens events so far. It's been quite the sausagefest. Yeah, I've been watching the speed skating. Both the regular and short track version. What freaks me out about the short track is how they put their fingers down on the ice. Those skates have such sharp, long blades, I dont know how they don't lose more fingers while making turns. Im looking forward to the womens speed skating and luge. Call me crazy, but I like the way eastern european women look in tight spandex.
To me, it's just about the competition. One person rising to the top to beat the competition. I'm just a sports and competition fan in general. I'll sit and watch ping pong on ESPN, especially f it's in high def. Plus the whole patriotic feeling of the Olympics is pretty cool to.
Great pics!
I was watching some luging and it is so exciting, and you have to imagine the drama between the competitors. It's not like football, where there is always next week or next season, this is it.
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