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OT - Winter Olympics

BU_EMT128 said:
Me too! I LOVE curling! (No sarcasm, I actually really enjoy watching it). A few of us are planning on grabbing a couple cases and watching the Olympics.
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Wow, thought I was alone in this world on loving to watch the Curling. Of course the Hockey, Luge and Bobsleading.... blaa to the rest of it.
 
Near Lasalle, Il there is a curling club. They have regular leagues. It is set up in an old bowling alley and they have two lanes. Got a chance to try it a couple years ago with a group of friends and had a blast.
 
I'm always into the Olympics as well! Great to see athletes who pour their all into trying to reach their goals. And I am a curling fan as well! It's like watching chess on ice since every move has to be plotted with great intricacy.

And I would have loved to see the 2016 Summer games come to Chicago, inspite of any possible cost overruns. The joy of seeing the games in my backyard would offset any problems caused by them.
 
SFP said:
Bike racing!

It was a great game except I do not have cable and it was shown on CNBC!:mad:
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I actually think NBC sometimes gets too much flack for their Olympic coverage. I personally don't think they do that bad of a job considering how many sports they have to juggle and how difficult it is to sort out all of the events going at the same time and what they want shown.

Having said that though, they dropped the ball on this! Consider that hockey may draw a smaller audience, but that would have easily been offset by the curiousity of the U.S./Canada rivalry. Ratings would have gone through the roof, and the game would have been over well before the ice dancing contenders would have taken the ice anyway. And this was only the second of three nights of ice dancing to begin with!

I personally found it really hard to believe that the early rounds of the 2-man bobsled and some freestyle skiing would have outdrawn the hockey game, considering there weren't too many well known athletes competing in these events to begin with. But I have a feeling NBC won't be making the same mistake if the U.S. hockey team advances to the medal round, especially if there is a rematch between the U.S. and Canada!
 
Agreed. Putting the US-Canada hockey game on MS-NBC was a huge mistake and a major insult to hockey fans (which includes all 30 million Canadians). Only a small percentage of their viewers could enjoy it in High-Def. I haven't watched a hockey game in Standard-Def for a couple years, and trying to watch and enjoy that game Sunday was aggravating.
 
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