I'm a complete novice, but the Women's Curling Olympic qualifyng is a great watch...

[The Polack MSgt]

I am impressed and kind of fascinated.

It's winner take all for a spot on the national team - And these women are playing the shit outta this game for it.

[juxtaposed]

1. curling is the next viral

[The Polack MSgt]

2. It could be. This is good sport TV

This is a cool game on a big screen.

[pressbox69]

3. Is that the one

they play with brooms?

[shenmue]

5. Yep

[pansypoo53219]

4. think it was a fan favorite when tv showed it alot a few years ago.

[rurallib]

6. I don't know what it is about curling

maybe it is the one sport that looks like nearly any of us could play

[The Polack MSgt]

8. It's like shuffle board only with 42 pound rocks on ice

so the concept is easy to grasp, but watching the aim, strategy and the adjustments the sweepers make - it's damn impressive.

[rurallib]

12. some of those people have such a touch on that rock

and it all happens kind of in slow motion so it builds the suspense.

[Kaleva]

11. Just like pole vaulting

Anyone of us can do it. But some will be better then others.

[OriginalGeek]

7. Curling is my favorite part of the Winter Olympics

I'll watch every match I can. Never heard of it until they showed it one year a few Olympics ago but it's now what I look forward to the most.

[The Polack MSgt]

9. I was just flipping through the channels, the NBA game was a dog.

The how to murder your husband shows my wife likes on the ID channel were repeats.

So we clicked over to the Olympic Trials, didn't even know which sports were going on and in 5 minutes we were hooked.

I'll definitely be watching during the Olympics.

Until the winter Olympics wise up and put basketball and volleyball on the slate (which is when the rest of the universe plays these sports) curling seems to be the most compelling competition.

I am not much of an Ice Dancing enthusiast and the X-game type events don't really interest me.

[OriginalGeek]

10. I only watch the skating

because my wife likes it. (although every once in while someone will do a back-flip or something and that's pretty cool) Actually though, I do enjoy the commentators for skating - Tara Lipinsky and Johnny Weir are fun.

I do like the old school Ski jumping but yeah, all those other X-Games things just seem "made-up". Well, I guess every sport is made-up but they are less traditional so it just doesn't do much for me and I doubt I'll live long enough for them to become traditional.