Another Winter Olympics is history, and I watched about the same number of hours on the plethora of NBC stations carrying them as I always do. None. It means I missed the significance of the men's and women's hockey teams' victories over Canada, and the fallout for the men. FOMO ain't so bad.
Someone explained to me that 'hockey is the national sport in Canada.' That got me to wondering what about US, not just us, I mean the USA. When will the summer Olympics add NASCAR?
How about Monster Trucks? Let's update traditional Greco-Roman wrestling with WWE. And don't tell me we're the only country on earth with dogs running the length of docks, leaping into the air, and landing in the water. I feel a Wide World moment coming on.
Considering the dollars, petro and otherwise, changing hands for the rights to broadcast the Olympics to the farthest corner of the universe, where, I suspect, the reaction is often like it was in my house for the last two weeks, we might seriously consider throwing the competitions wide open, so put those thinking caps on.I'm holding out, of course, for that most national of all of our past times, regime change. The problem is lining up sponsors. No worries, we've got four years to square this away. What's that? Beer Pong? Brilliant!
-bill kenny
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