Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Day 584: Olympic Coverage, Part 1

Olympic seriesSliding sports - tubing & frozen turkeyCoverageSki jumping fantasy leagueWhy Americans are not good at cross county skingBetter cross country skingAre skirts really the best curling uniform?Cross country sking - people dropping outPregnant curlingNow, I’ve been giving NBC a lot of grief over the years. Like an Aztec priest, I’ve been predicting their slow and steady decline… due mainly to three practices the network can’t seem to get away from:

· Cancelling excellent shows prematurely, like ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’ and the ‘Black Donnleys’
· Championing horrible shows for unknown reasons, like ‘Joey’
· Renewing tired shows that have already run its course… multiple times… like ‘ER’ and ‘Law and Order’

And of course, NBC has shown their complete and total ineptitude with the Jay Leno & Conan O’Brien debacle… a subject I plan to cover in this blog soon.

But for now, I must put my distrust and misgivings for NBC aside and thank them from the bottom of my heart. And for my fellow American’s, you should thank them as well.

Thank you NBC for sheltering us from the horrific boredom that is the Winter Olympics.

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