| Author | Message | ||
     Danger_dave |
I'm at about 3/10. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
The only way I know the Olympics are happening is that the cups at McDonalds changes. Can you have a negative score? | ||
| Miamiuly |
I'm with FB. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
The actual Olympics...1 The drinking Olympics at my buddy Harkin's house this saturday........10 | ||
| Spiderman |
Let me know when the Winter Olympics are here and then I only want to watch Hockey. I am at -300/10 | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
winter > summer | ||
| Greenlantern |
 Depends...... | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Who's the big, ripped guy grabbing the woman's tookas? | ||
| Guell |
probably her "life partner" | ||
| Tramp |
GL- I find that sexually-ambiguous pic way too disturbing. I have pretty low Olympic Spirits... when i was a competitive snowboarder, suffice it to say, Snowboarding was NOT an olympic sport, and even the top worldcup champs couldn't eke out a living doing it. The IOC used to quip about how Snowboarding would "NEVER be an olympic event", which was pretty demoralizing to us all. i had a long chat about this with shaun White a few years back, and the kid was really, REALLY excited to hear about what he stood to represent, in the sport, were he to take the gold...which he did. | ||
| Hexangler |
Lost my interest when they changed it to every two years. | ||
| Swordsman |
Yeah, ZERO here as well. But I feel that way about most sports... football, basketball, golf, you name it. The only sports that can hold my attention for more than 30 seconds are the ones that involve internal combustion. Or swords. But you don't find those on TV very often.  ~SM | ||
| Greenlantern |
GL- I find that sexually-ambiguous pic way too disturbing. That was my attempt at "glass half full" Humor....... Thud. | ||
| Xl1200r |
Summer I don't normally watch, but I might try to take a peek at the women's valleyball. Winter - call me crazy, but I could watch Curling for hours. My spirit is still low though - maybe a 2. | ||
| Spiderman |
Winter - call me crazy, but I could watch Curling for hours. Not crazy, just pothead  Duuuude look at the brooms man! LOL | ||
| S1wmike |
Back when they had amateurs competing in the Olympics I had a real good Olympic spirit, but now with all the pro athletes, media selected featured favorites and sponsors ads. I really have no interest in them. It once was a time when an athlete would train his life for the opportunity to represent his country and all events got some sort of coverage so that athletes efforts would not go unnoticed. Yes I do know that the Eastern Block countries had professional athletes, but I guess their armed services had one hell of an athletics programs, but that is also what made the true amateurs victory even greater when defeating them. Any one remember 1980 Lake Placid. I know Spidey should. (Message edited by S1wmike on August 07, 2008) | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
"Or swords. But you don't find those on TV very often." There's fencing on the Summer O's isn't there? | ||
| Tramp |
I sure as hell do. "Old time Hockey...Eddie Shore!" Until reading this thread, I was unaware that the Olympics now occur every two years... i DID nejoy watching the czechs beat the Russians in '93 (or thereabouts) with my Czech ski buddies, in a movie theatre out in the Krkonose mountains | ||
| Froggy |
LARP! | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
I'll try to watch some of the gymnastics. I can't help it, those chicks are hot. But I won't be surprised or upset if I forget and miss most of it. I'd say about 5/10 | ||
| Spiderman |
Any one remember 1980 Lake Placid. I know Spidey should. Ahhh yes 1980, fresh out the womb and a bunch of college kids nobody knew defeated a whole nation with nothing more than a wooden stick and a black piece of vulcanized rubber!  (Message edited by spiderman on August 07, 2008) | ||
| Zane |
Olympics?? What Olympics? Is there an Olympics going on? Guess that rates me 0/10. Most likely won't watch any of it. Don't have much time for TV these days. Besides, the way the Olympics were covered last time it woasn't worth bothering. There was more time spent on the back stories than there was on the events. Winter Olympics are a bit more interesting for me. I like the couples figure skating, ski jumping, luge and curling. | ||
| Prof_stack |
Thinking back to my teenage years many decades ago, I was really interested in the summer Olympics. Wide World of Sports on ABC was the best. 10/10 Nowadays only Euro soccer or World Cup is for me sports worth watching on the tube. 2/10 | ||
| New12r |
The X games are Olympians on motorcycles and skateboards 50ft in the air doing the same tricks those losers are doing safely on the ground. -100/10 for me. Personally I would rather watch the special Olympics. | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
0/10 I watched curling for about 15 minutes one winter, just staring at the TV trying to figure out WTF was going on. | ||
| Wile_ecoyote |
I've tried to get my daughter interested in the O. She's like me, would rather watch the X games. | ||
| Wardan123 |
My wife is a huge fan of the olympics- she likes it for every reason I do not. The complete over-blown coverage of gymnastics, track and field, and swimming. I prefer the sports with less attention given and therefore I often find athletes who are closer to the definition of what I think an olympic athlete should be. I really like the back stories of these obscure athletes (Rulon Gardner, big old farm boy who won olympic gold defeating Alexander Karelin in 2000.) I know I am in the minority... and accept it. | ||
| Dynasport |
Well, I like the Olympics. The athletes are amazing. The amount of training they put in is unbelievable. The dedication they have is tremendous. On top of that the Olympics is the only time many of the sports get any attention at all. I wish I had half the flexibility and athleticism of a gymnast or the endurance of a triathlete, or the strength of a powerlifter. So, for me I am probably an 8/10. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I wish they did the every 4 year thing instead. That way it was special. Now it seems like the Olympics are ALWAYS happening. When it was every four years, you made a special point to watch because you wouldn't see it again for so long. It was kinda like waiting for the new season of Battlestar Galactica to come out.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
At 230 in the morning , I dont even care to do Tivo for it. I would be apathetic about it, but that takes more effort than I feel. |
