Am I less of an American for not watching the Olympics? I want to watch, I want to support our nation’s athletes, I think they work too hard to not be recognized for screwing up regularly scheduled programming. For god sakes, we proactively live right next store to Champaign’s own Bonnie Blair. You see, Blair was raised in Champaign, Illinois. After graduation from Centennial High School in Champaign, she moved to the Milwaukee area to train with the United States national speed skating team. Now, with dedication like that, it makes me feel like such an ass-hole for watching Seinfeld reruns, instead of seeing the images such as; Tenley Albright, who won a gold and silver medal for the US in 1952 and 56’ as one of the worlds premier figure skaters. Nicknamed the ‘Silver Slasher’ (by me), she would glide across the ice like melt water down a softening ice-cycle on an unusually warm winters day. Or even, Edwin Moses, the winner of 2 Olympic golds and 1 bronze in 78’, 84’, and 88’. With his rain of 122 hurdle victories in a row, Edwin Mosses quickly earned himself the name ‘The Black Bellhop” (again by me), for his resilience and undaunted determination in serving his country. Lets be serious, how many times in your lifetime do you get to see a Martin Sheridan, the winner of 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals during the 1906 and 1908 Olympics in the famed “Tug of War” event. Martin ‘Tug my Sheridan’ Sheridan spent years and years honing his craft of pulling on a rope so that we, the enjoyer of sport, may bask in the fruits of its labor. Thanks to Sheridan, America, during the early 1900’s, was widely known as the Olympic team that would “pull” away from the competition, thanks Martin Sheridan. So, after all the hard work these patriots do for their country, why is it I can’t bring myself to watch? Are we not form the same area as Olympic great Tonja Buford-Bailey, of the womens track and team, who sadly never won any medals but dam it, she tried. She had the will, to go out everyday after day and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail until one day, she realized hey, “I really should have been working on an actual career all those years I was practicing throwing the javelin”, but you know what? At least she tried, it’s almost as if I refuse to even try to watch the Olympic games. What is wrong with me? Do I subconsciously hate America and all her team efforts? I sure haven’t seen any effort on behalf of any sort of Olympic Committee trying to sway me to watch, with any advertising what so ever, it’s almost like they don’t want me to watch because they know of all my years of Olympic neglect. Oh, so now I’m not good enough to watch your stupid Olympics? All of a sudden I’m not American enough? Well I’ll tell you one thing Bob Costas, you slick son of a bitch, I’m watching the Olympics and there’s nothing you or Tom Brady can do about so….. GO USA, lets play two.
July 20, 2008
Olympic Struggles
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Am I less of an American for not watching the Olympics? I want to watch, I want to support our nation’s athletes, I think they work too hard to not be recognized for screwing up regularly scheduled programming. For god sakes, we proactively live right next store to Champaign’s own Bonnie Blair. You see, Blair was raised in Champaign, Illinois. After graduation from Centennial High School in Champaign, she moved to the Milwaukee area to train with the United States national speed skating team. Now, with dedication like that, it makes me feel like such an ass-hole for watching Seinfeld reruns, instead of seeing the images such as; Tenley Albright, who won a gold and silver medal for the US in 1952 and 56’ as one of the worlds premier figure skaters. Nicknamed the ‘Silver Slasher’ (by me), she would glide across the ice like melt water down a softening ice-cycle on an unusually warm winters day. Or even, Edwin Moses, the winner of 2 Olympic golds and 1 bronze in 78’, 84’, and 88’. With his rain of 122 hurdle victories in a row, Edwin Mosses quickly earned himself the name ‘The Black Bellhop” (again by me), for his resilience and undaunted determination in serving his country. Lets be serious, how many times in your lifetime do you get to see a Martin Sheridan, the winner of 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals during the 1906 and 1908 Olympics in the famed “Tug of War” event. Martin ‘Tug my Sheridan’ Sheridan spent years and years honing his craft of pulling on a rope so that we, the enjoyer of sport, may bask in the fruits of its labor. Thanks to Sheridan, America, during the early 1900’s, was widely known as the Olympic team that would “pull” away from the competition, thanks Martin Sheridan. So, after all the hard work these patriots do for their country, why is it I can’t bring myself to watch? Are we not form the same area as Olympic great Tonja Buford-Bailey, of the womens track and team, who sadly never won any medals but dam it, she tried. She had the will, to go out everyday after day and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail until one day, she realized hey, “I really should have been working on an actual career all those years I was practicing throwing the javelin”, but you know what? At least she tried, it’s almost as if I refuse to even try to watch the Olympic games. What is wrong with me? Do I subconsciously hate America and all her team efforts? I sure haven’t seen any effort on behalf of any sort of Olympic Committee trying to sway me to watch, with any advertising what so ever, it’s almost like they don’t want me to watch because they know of all my years of Olympic neglect. Oh, so now I’m not good enough to watch your stupid Olympics? All of a sudden I’m not American enough? Well I’ll tell you one thing Bob Costas, you slick son of a bitch, I’m watching the Olympics and there’s nothing you or Tom Brady can do about so….. GO USA, lets play two.