Olympics

Kodos · 02-17-2006, 12:43 PM

Option C.

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 12:44 PM

Vitamin C

JeeberD · 02-17-2006, 12:44 PM

Mmmmkay

Poli · 02-17-2006, 12:44 PM

D efense!

Ksyrup · 02-17-2006, 12:44 PM

Is this the option to wipe them out completely?

Poli · 02-17-2006, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kodos

Option B.

Triple option.

JeeberD · 02-17-2006, 12:45 PM

Dammit, I should have known this was gonna be a poll...

JeeberD · 02-17-2006, 12:46 PM

Winter olympics sucks balls (outside of men's hockey, that is)...

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardent enthusiast

Triple option.

Triple threat.

gottimd · 02-17-2006, 12:47 PM

Last night, since the olympics preempted all of the good Thursday night shows, I was forced with a difficult decision:

a) watch the olympics
b) pour hot bacon grease on my nipples

I went with b.

KWhit · 02-17-2006, 12:48 PM

Both summer and winter olymics are totally unwatchable to me.

TLK · 02-17-2006, 12:58 PM

I actually watched the play by play of the Womens curling event yesterday, as it wasn't aired live. Yep.... pretty sad.

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 01:00 PM

That snowboard race the other night was kind of cool. Now that's an event I like.

None of this judging crap. Barrel down the hill pushing each other like men.

Desnudo · 02-17-2006, 01:00 PM

If they had US v. Al Queda in curling, I'd watch it in a second.

gottimd · 02-17-2006, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

That snowboard race the other night was kind of cool. Now that's an event I like.

None of this judging crap. Barrel down the hill pushing each other like men.

I wanted to see that. Now that looked awesome. Thats the event where 4 of them were going downhill at once, it looked like an even taken right from a video game. They should've given them weapons.

JeeberD · 02-17-2006, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desnudo

If they had US v. Al Queda in curling, I'd watch it in a second.

Both teams should be allowed to hide a bomb in one of their rocks. If the other teams hits it...BOOM! Automatic disqualification (and death, of course).

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gottimd

I wanted to see that. Now that looked awesome. Thats the event where 4 of them were going downhill at once, it looked like an even taken right from a video game. They should've given them weapons.

and powerups

saldana · 02-17-2006, 01:23 PM

normally i am a huge gung ho spaz for the olympics,but for some reason this year i am not quite as into them...i cant stand the tape delay nonsense, its too hard to avoid any knowledge of what has already happened, so the actual broadcasts at night are pretty anti climatic

Lorena · 02-17-2006, 01:24 PM

Summer olympics.. yes, winter, nope, not at all.

Drake · 02-17-2006, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

and powerups

The one thing the snowboard cross was missing, and you nailed it.

Sports I'd like to see:

1. Downhill Skiing Relay (with mid-mountain exchanges)
2. Biathalon with Bears (Some days you get the bear...)
3. Snowboard Bowling Downhill (Time penalty for pins left standing.)

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 02:17 PM

They should include some kind of laser tag-like component to the biathalon.

And bears.

sterlingice · 02-17-2006, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

and powerups

"First one to get to the bottle of greenies gets a 'speed boost' "

"Oh man, the first place racer just finished eating a banana... and there the peel goes, out onto the track"

SI

gottimd · 02-17-2006, 02:21 PM

They also need those large swinging pendulums for the downhill races too. Not only do they have to be fast, but they have to time it right or they just get worked by a large pendulum, like "terry tating" them across the slope.

rkmsuf · 02-17-2006, 02:22 PM

"Ok, here comes the jump over the 10,000 foot glacier."

Kodos · 02-17-2006, 02:25 PM

"Oh no! He didn't clear the Polar Bear Pit!"

sterlingice · 02-17-2006, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gottimd

Last night, since the olympics preempted all of the good Thursday night shows, I was forced with a difficult decision:

a) watch the olympics
b) pour hot bacon grease on my nipples

I went with b.

Um... when you say "good Thursday night shows", was that "Will and Grace" or "Four Kings" (what the heck is that) or the 184th season of ER?

SI

sterlingice · 02-17-2006, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLionKing

I actually watched the play by play of the Womens curling event yesterday, as it wasn't aired live. Yep.... pretty sad.

Dude, what's so weird about that?

We're starting to have a cult curling following to Cassie and the team in the Olympics thread

SI

Eaglesfan27 · 02-17-2006, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Um... when you say "good Thursday night shows", was that "Will and Grace" or "Four Kings" (what the heck is that) or the 184th season of ER?

SI

I was thinking of Earl when he mentioned that.

gottimd · 02-17-2006, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

I was thinking of Earl when he mentioned that.

Eaglesfan27 is correct, that and the office. 184th season of ER??? Wow?!?!? How many Olympics have there been?

Fouts · 02-17-2006, 05:37 PM

I watch the Olympics every night. I prefer the timed events over biased judging (my opinion).

Desnudo · 02-17-2006, 06:31 PM

Waiting for the USSR judges votes on the US athletes used to be a highlight. Just not the same anymore.

Solecismic · 02-17-2006, 06:44 PM

I think I'd care about it if they did four things:

1) Eliminate any sport where a judge has to award a score based on subjective opinion.

2) Eliminate all background stories on athletes.

3) Televise every event they choose to cover from start to finish. Do they really think you can televise football by showing three minutes of the second quarter, the second-half kickoff and the last five minutes of the fourth quarter?

4) Televise everything live as much as humanly possible.

The packaged crapfest we get today is utterly unwatchable. I'm quite disappointed the other networks have chosen to abandon new programming this week and next. I wish it were baseball season so there'd be something to watch in the evening.

Buccaneer · 02-17-2006, 06:50 PM

I care for the sports of winter much more than I do than the summer ones but like nearly every single televised sports events, they have rendered them unwatchable. Also with X games type shit just to boost ratings, the games have become a parody of itself. The Games itself do have meaning but it should not be pushed to the mass market but just play them better to the niche market, much like what hockey has done.

Drake · 02-17-2006, 07:40 PM

They need more sports where death is on the line.

But then the Sicilians would always win.

Craptacular · 02-17-2006, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Dude, what's so weird about that?

We're starting to have a cult curling following to Cassie and the team in the Olympics thread

SI

I'll have to check that thread out when the Olympics are over. I've been watching curling, and honestly, have found it to be pretty interesting.

Overall, I much prefer the Winter games to the Summer games. I've been recording pretty much everything but hockey, and trying to skip through the figure skating, but have tried to watch at least part of everything else.

IwasHere · 02-17-2006, 11:40 PM

Not since they started faking their coverage.

Now that everything is taped delayed, Hell, the Winter games from Salt lake were not even show live, it really takes all the suspense out of watching the games. The announcers arer always correct, because they are anouncing an event that has already taken place. Watching a short piece on some unknown athlete means that when he competes later in the show he somehow wins the gold. Now days Its all staged.

They film everything and just put the pieces together after the events have occured. If the anouncers are explaing how the Loser's bracket works before the US team goes on, bet your house that the US loses and goes to the Loser's bracket.

EagleFan · 02-17-2006, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Winter olympics sucks balls (outside of men's hockey, that is)...

Isn't that part of the men's figure skating judging (ball-sucking)?

Actually, all this X-Game craop has ruined it for me. I like the normal skiiing events, the speed skating, the hockey, the bobsled and the luge but when you start adding the X-Games crap and the lousy job of covering the events, than it goes downhill quickly.

Especially since that is what they have been putting on prime time. I would like to see some hockey and curling but that is on either in the veryearly moring or in the afternoon when I'm at work.

IwasHere · 02-17-2006, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EagleFan

Especially since that is what they have been putting on prime time. I would like to see some hockey and curling but that is on either in the veryearly moring or in the afternoon when I'm at work.

What is your cable out? I thought CNBC was Curling 24 hours a day.

ISiddiqui · 02-17-2006, 11:52 PM

CNBC has "Mad Money" on now. What CNBC are you getting?

IwasHere · 02-18-2006, 12:02 AM

At 2AM they have "Live" hockey tonight on CNBC

IwasHere · 02-18-2006, 12:07 AM

And, you just missed the CNBC Curling.

According to the schedule for Friday the 17th
CNBC — (Men’s curling: USA vs. Switzerland), 5-8 p.m.

ISiddiqui · 02-18-2006, 12:12 AM

Just missed? It's freaking 1 AM (and I saw a part of it... the end)!

CNBC only shows Curling on in the early evening. Usually from 5-7, weekdays. USA shows it in late morning, early afternoon. It hasn't been in Primetime yet.

Emiliano · 02-18-2006, 01:59 AM

I assume you mean winter Olympics... Well, nope. I don't like winter sports, at all. Summer Olympics, I love it.

sterlingice · 02-18-2006, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Just missed? It's freaking 1 AM (and I saw a part of it... the end)!

CNBC only shows Curling on in the early evening. Usually from 5-7, weekdays. USA shows it in late morning, early afternoon. It hasn't been in Primetime yet.

They've also done live ones at some early time in the morning like 7 am then the tape-delayed 4-7 pm one here.

SI

Grammaticus · 02-18-2006, 01:09 PM

Take out the men's figure staking, the curling and it has potential. I like the snowboarding events that have been added recently. The interviews with snowboard athlete's is a great insight to the slacker mentality of youth today.

Desnudo · 02-18-2006, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grammaticus

Take out the men's figure staking, the curling and it has potential. I like the snowboarding events that have been added recently. The interviews with snowboard athlete's is a great insight to the slacker mentality of youth today.

I live in a town filled with them. Let me sum it up for you:

I wonder where I can get some weed

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KWhit Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Conyers GA	Both summer and winter olymics are totally unwatchable to me.

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TLK Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Allen Park, MI	I actually watched the play by play of the Womens curling event yesterday, as it wasn't aired live. Yep.... pretty sad.

02-17-2006, 01:00 PM	#13
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	That snowboard race the other night was kind of cool. Now that's an event I like. None of this judging crap. Barrel down the hill pushing each other like men. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales Last edited by rkmsuf : 02-17-2006 at 01:00 PM.

02-17-2006, 01:00 PM	#14
Desnudo Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Here and There	If they had US v. Al Queda in curling, I'd watch it in a second.

02-17-2006, 01:23 PM	#18
saldana Pro Starter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bethlehem, Pa	normally i am a huge gung ho spaz for the olympics,but for some reason this year i am not quite as into them...i cant stand the tape delay nonsense, its too hard to avoid any knowledge of what has already happened, so the actual broadcasts at night are pretty anti climatic

02-17-2006, 01:24 PM	#19
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	Summer olympics.. yes, winter, nope, not at all.

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rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	They should include some kind of laser tag-like component to the biathalon. And bears. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

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gottimd Dearly Missed (9/25/77-12/23/08) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: DC Suburbs	They also need those large swinging pendulums for the downhill races too. Not only do they have to be fast, but they have to time it right or they just get worked by a large pendulum, like "terry tating" them across the slope. __________________ NAFL New Orleans Saints GM/Co-Commish MP Career Record: 114-85 NAFL Super Bowl XI Champs In memory of Gavin Anthony: 7/22/08-7/26/08

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rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	"Ok, here comes the jump over the 10,000 foot glacier." __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

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Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	"Oh no! He didn't clear the Polar Bear Pit!"

02-17-2006, 05:37 PM	#30
Fouts College Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: California	I watch the Olympics every night. I prefer the timed events over biased judging (my opinion).

02-17-2006, 06:31 PM	#31
Desnudo Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Here and There	Waiting for the USSR judges votes on the US athletes used to be a highlight. Just not the same anymore.

02-17-2006, 06:44 PM	#32
Solecismic Solecismic Software Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Canton, OH	I think I'd care about it if they did four things: 1) Eliminate any sport where a judge has to award a score based on subjective opinion. 2) Eliminate all background stories on athletes. 3) Televise every event they choose to cover from start to finish. Do they really think you can televise football by showing three minutes of the second quarter, the second-half kickoff and the last five minutes of the fourth quarter? 4) Televise everything live as much as humanly possible. The packaged crapfest we get today is utterly unwatchable. I'm quite disappointed the other networks have chosen to abandon new programming this week and next. I wish it were baseball season so there'd be something to watch in the evening.

02-17-2006, 06:50 PM	#33
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	I care for the sports of winter much more than I do than the summer ones but like nearly every single televised sports events, they have rendered them unwatchable. Also with X games type shit just to boost ratings, the games have become a parody of itself. The Games itself do have meaning but it should not be pushed to the mass market but just play them better to the niche market, much like what hockey has done.

02-17-2006, 07:40 PM	#34
Drake assmaster Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bloomington, IN	They need more sports where death is on the line. But then the Sicilians would always win.

02-17-2006, 11:40 PM	#36
IwasHere Banned Join Date: Sep 2004	Not since they started faking their coverage. Now that everything is taped delayed, Hell, the Winter games from Salt lake were not even show live, it really takes all the suspense out of watching the games. The announcers arer always correct, because they are anouncing an event that has already taken place. Watching a short piece on some unknown athlete means that when he competes later in the show he somehow wins the gold. Now days Its all staged. They film everything and just put the pieces together after the events have occured. If the anouncers are explaing how the Loser's bracket works before the US team goes on, bet your house that the US loses and goes to the Loser's bracket.

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02-18-2006, 12:02 AM	#40
IwasHere Banned Join Date: Sep 2004	At 2AM they have "Live" hockey tonight on CNBC

02-18-2006, 12:07 AM	#41
IwasHere Banned Join Date: Sep 2004	And, you just missed the CNBC Curling. According to the schedule for Friday the 17th CNBC — (Men’s curling: USA vs. Switzerland), 5-8 p.m.

02-18-2006, 12:12 AM	#42
ISiddiqui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Decatur, GA	Just missed? It's freaking 1 AM (and I saw a part of it... the end)! CNBC only shows Curling on in the early evening. Usually from 5-7, weekdays. USA shows it in late morning, early afternoon. It hasn't been in Primetime yet. __________________ "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams Last edited by ISiddiqui : 02-18-2006 at 12:13 AM.

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02-18-2006, 01:09 PM	#45
Grammaticus Pro Rookie Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tennessee	Take out the men's figure staking, the curling and it has potential. I like the snowboarding events that have been added recently. The interviews with snowboard athlete's is a great insight to the slacker mentality of youth today.

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