Oh… ‘Lympics.
I seem to remember the Olympics being a big thing once. Everyone would talk about them, look forward to them, know when they would start and end, get excited, make time to watch them and know the names of the figure skaters. (Remember that whole Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan thing? Back when the Olympics were big?)
This time I didn’t even know they were on. It might be just me and my general apathy regarding sports, but it seems like Olympic fever has died down in my lifetime.
Last night I was at a birthday party and the TV was on, and it was only after watching about an hour of figure skating and dudes stacked up on sleds (whose idea was that?) that I thought, “Hey, that’s the Olympic logo—ooooh.”
Maybe I would’ve caught on faster if I hadn’t missed the thing with the flame—or if I hadn’t already started on the cheap champagne.
Anyway, the Olympics seem to have lost their spark. (Get it?) Maybe it’s time to spice them up a bit.
I’ve got it. We’ll pack all the Olympians in houses together and keep cameras on them at all times, and find out what happens when world-class athletes stop being polite and start getting real. That’ll draw some interest.
You have my attention, maybe we should give one of them a club too!
Comment by Debra — February 13, 2006 @ 6:34 pm
I agree completely– I was walking my dog this morning and ran into another dog walker I sometimes see, and I had to make fake small-talk about the Olympics. She seemed to be obsessed with them, whereas all I could say was “Yeah, I heard the drunk skier is out of the running.”
Comment by Steve Krause — February 15, 2006 @ 8:17 pm
Haha! I agree… the Olympics bore me to tears these days. And I was an avid ice skating and gymnastics watcher in the past. I think there is so much drama in today’s “reality TV,” that the Olympics just can’t compete (get it?).
Comment by Lynn Garr — February 16, 2006 @ 2:40 pm