Is it just me or is anyone else sick of the Olympics already....

[WCGreen]

I am also a little put off by the jingoistic manner in which the games are advertised....

It's as if the infantile black and white world of the Bush Junta has spilled over into the Sporting Life...

Snow Boarding...

Did American Olympic elites push to get this American Sport added to the winter games just so we could grab some gold.....

Honestly, with all the stop cut filming, rock-n-roll soundtracks and the weird outfits, is it really a sport or a created event to let false American Pride shine through....

Especially with all that is going wrong for America around the world....

[Lavender Brown]

1. I hate the commercials that say, "the Americans are coming!"

Why do they have to ruin sports events with that crap? :puke:

[Radical Activist]

28. And you're going to die when they get here!

That's what half the world probably thinks when they hear a line like that.

[yvr girl]

2. No, but I haven't been watching NBC much

And I'll get my Olympic coverage on the CBC.

[supernova]

3. Haven't seen much of it at all

But I haven't been watching NBC.

For me, somebody doing live streaming over the web, like AOL did with Live 8 would be the best way for me to enjoy the Olympics. That way I don't have to see all the annoying commercials and I can look at the sports I'm interested in.

Edit: I'm not much of a sports fan anyway. But those sports I DO enjoy tend to be the individual sports that make up the Olympics. You know, more or less competing against yourself, bettering your last performance, as much as against someone else. I'm just not much of a team sport person.

[peekaloo]

4. USA! USA! USA!

Get to know the pretty ones on a first name basis! Feel your heart swell with pride that we're "better than ever"!.

Can't wait.....to miss it.

With the exception of "Scrubs', 'The Office' and 'My Name is Earl' I don't watch NBC that much. Looks like I'll be watching much less during the next month.

[Benfea]

5. No, I'm not sick of it.

Of course, I hardly ever watch TV, so I haven't been inundated with all the ads you guys are talking about.

[CanuckAmok]

6. I became sick of them when "dream teams" of pro athletes were allowed.

What amazes me is when the US men's basketball team was comprised of NBA all-stars, and it was a newsworthy triumph whenever they won over a team like Romania or Swaziland.

Yeah, what an upset. :eyes:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. The Winter Olympics?

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten those were on......

I watch so little mainstream TV, that I'd nearly missed them.....

We used to watch them religiously, but no more......

Now nearly all the mainstream TV I see is on the big sets at my gym!

I'll look for it when I go later on this morning.....

:hi:

[WCGreen]

14. There is nothing to watch on NBC.....

Except for a few shows, but they put the commercials all over them....

After one time, the commercials aree stuck in my head....

I helped make a few political commercials a few years back so I notice stuff, trends, who they are targeting with the ads....

[tigereye]

8. no, I love every messy minute

the skiing, the ski-jumping, the skating, the luge, the bob-sled. I try not to let our Ameri-centric and tragedy-loving hype, get in the way.

I can't wait.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. No...I've seen hardly anything about the Olympics, actually.

When you don't watch much TV, that tends to happen. :D ;)

Besides, I like the Summer Olympics more than the Winter Olympics, though I'm a sucker for Olympic figure and speed skating....

:P

[WCGreen]

12. Hell I watch two or three shows on NBC a week and get slammed

with mini infomercials...

USA has it....

CNBC, which I watch durring the day has it.....

So it's there....

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. I'm glad I'm missing all these spots, then...

:D ;)

[WCGreen]

15. In one, they have the Donnas playing out in the snow...

While the Womens Snowboarding team goes whooosing over their heads....

A nice melding of Rock and Sport....

But it looks forced....

Like hey, watch the Olympics, man, they are Narly.....

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. ...

:rofl:

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. The winter Olympics are the only event that the US doesn't dominate.

And sponsors are desperate for that to change.

No one gives a shit about the Olympics anymore.

[WCGreen]

11. That's why they added Snow Boarding.....

Really pumping it up....

[billyskank]

17. I didn't even know the Olympics were on!

:o

[In_The_Wind]

19. I turned on the noontime news ~ it wasn't there!

But the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY was.





:hi:

[billyskank]

20. I didn't even know that!

:o

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

25. I'm not going to watch!

:hi:

[billyskank]

36. Me neither

I got no TV :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

40. Then you'll never need to worry ...

about a TV in the bedroom interfering with your sex life ...
:hi:

[Benfea]

22. They're not yet.

From the other posts, I'd say they're already hyping up the usual pre-Olympics ads though.

[bertha katzenengel]

18. Me too. And I get you, but it's not the Bush world spilling over . . .

Big sporting events are already played up like this, have been for decades, for RATINGS. On NBC and USA and whoever else is running the Games. Makes me :puke:

[WCGreen]

27. It really seems to me as if it is the

Bush infantile jingoism...

Almost like Hitler in Munich....

Maybe some Italian or Swedish kid will come in the Snowboarding Competition and win the Gold...

That would be something...

[bertha katzenengel]

32. C., you and I both hope that.

The BIG wins don't always go to Americans. Not to wish ill on the individual athletes, but . . . Oh, I don't know how to articulate what I mean.

Like Jesse Owens, yes . . . good thing the Games aren't being held here. We've had them here too frequently lately. Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Atlanta, there was another one, I think . . . ugh.

[bumblebee1]

45. Bertha

Salt Lake City, 2002

[bertha katzenengel]

48. yep - that's the one!

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

21. I would like to see something else.

Hey there ~ Chris.

How does drive-time weather look for your trip to the Super Bowl Party?

[WCGreen]

23. HArdly any snow....

All the hype... Nothin'

[ContraBass Black]

24. Have you seen the Coke bribe, er, um, promotion?

Buy Coke. Get assigned an event. If the US wins that event, get free Coke.

[Joey Liberal]

26. They don't show enough Judo or Tae Kwon Do on TV

And Ju Jitsu should be an olympic sport, along with Kick boxing.

[WCGreen]

29. Mud Rasllin'

[Radical Activist]

30. I do hate the commercials.

It makes me not want to watch. Besides, my favorite Olympic sport to watch is in the Summer games. Brazil v. US women's volleyball. Wow.

[Catch22Dem]

31. Our neighbors to the north kick ass at snowboarding

I just finished watching the winter X games last week. Lots of snowboarding participants from all over the world. Very good ones too. I imagine a lot of the X Gamers also compete in the olympics. I'm a big fan of the winter games, so I'm not sick of it. I watch it for the sport, and I'll root for various individuals from any country. National pride is not a factor.

[fishwax]

33. I can't wait for Curling

and I love the Olympics. They aren't what they used to be (or, more accurately I suppose, what they used to seem to be), but I still like to watch them, and with the winter olympics you get to see some great athletes who get almost no recognition outside of this event.

The media hype does get on my nerves, but hopefully with all the NBC cable programming we'll still be able to see some of the non-rockstar events.

[gizmo1979]

38. Here we Go Curling Here we Go.

[Inspired]

34. Looking forward to Apolo Anton Ohno

Outdated soul patch and all.

[Benfea]

37. I thought his tantrum last time around was embarrassing to the country

Up until that moment I counted myself a fan, but… ugh.

[Inspired]

49. What tantrum? Remind me, please?

I remember the South Koreans stomping their feet and holding their breath like 3 year olds but I don't recall Ohno doing this. What tantrum are you talking about?

[Benfea]

52. That's the one I was thinking of.

Too often, American athletes get their way in post-event officiating controversies, just on account of all the money the U.S. gives to the international Olympic committee. I hate when that happens.

[JVS]

35. I'm sick and tired of all those fucking foreigners at the olympics!

/freeper mode

[petronius]

39. I am heartily sick of that SUV commercial w/ the frozen guy

Other than that, I don't really care about the Olympics either way. I will probably watch a couple of hockey games, and tune out all the jingoistic crap and the sappy 'human interest' stories...

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. My disdain for the Olympics began in 1968

when the IOC banned Tommie Smith and John Carlos from competition for giving the "black power" salute during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter dash.

It got worse in 1976 when the Russians politicized the Games by boycotting them, then again in 1980 when the U.S. returned the favor under Carter.

The last Olympics I watched were the L.A. Games in 1984. The jingoism sickened me.

I so wish Americans understood the quality of grace.

[Darth_Kitten]

42. Oh, say can't you see?

I remember the L.A. Games or rather ABC's (?) coverage of it to be particularly bad.

I remember seeing a cartoon, somebody was reprimanding an american commentator "oh say can't you see?"

man, that was so long ago....

[Awsi Dooger]

43. You've got the Soviet boycott reversed

The U.S. boycotted first, the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest a Soviet invasion. Then Russia followed suit by boycotting the '84 Games in Los Angeles. Just a few Eastern European countries, including Romania which became a huge favorite with the fans, refused to go along with the Russian boycott and attended the LA Games.

I love the Olympics and will watch virtually every minute. I've attended many of them including Salt Lake City in 2002. The Olympics make every other sporting event other than perhaps the World Cup look like a backyard pickup game. But I'm sure we'll be treated to many more "who cares about the Olympics?" threads. May I ask why they are treated as something new and provocative? Just copy and paste them from year to year. The words and the themes never vary.

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. I stand corrected

Thanks; I would've gone for who knows how long thinking it was '76 and '80.

As for the rest of your post... well, I love baseball. Always have, always will. A lot of people disagree with me. And there we are.

[deadparrot]

46. Well, they're delaying new episodes of West Wing,

so that's enough to make me :grr:

I'll watch the hockey. That'll be it.

[fortyfeetunder]

47. I've effin had it with sports!!!

After the ice skating fixing a few Olympics back, and the SBXL debacle tonight, I think I will pass on the Games this year. I have plenty to do otherwise.

[Strong Atheist]

50. I am always sick of sports. nt.

[madinmaryland]

51. Are the olympics this year?

Hadn't seen anything about them. I don't watch the national networks much. Don't hear much about them on DU or the Discovery and History Channels.

Oh well..

[GalleryGod]

53. Not in the Least.

Enjoy about 90% of it.....:patriot: