The Winter Olympics?

You would think this was an easy one.  As much fun as it is to talk about, does anyone really enjoy watching curling?  More to the point, does anyone have any clue what the rules of curling are?

The Winter Olympics have about two days worth of cool and/or fun events and the rest is biathlons and stuff they don’t even bother to air on television.

I want to say the Winter Olympics are overrated.  I really do.  But the truth of it is, that aside from occasionally checking the medal tracker on ESPN because it would be kinda cool I guess if the United States finished with the most medals (which they didn’t, thanks for nothing Shaun White), I just don’t care.  I don’t care and I think most people feel the same way, which would be the very definition of the Winter Olympics being NOT overrated.

Of course, it didn’t help much that the U.S. didn’t have a real competitor this year in figure skating or that the men’s hockey team stunk it up in the medal round (the only two sports Americans care about).  The lead up to Olympics, with the anti-gayness (what will Johnny Weir wear!?) and shoddy construction were much bigger and more interesting stories than anything from the games itself.

The most talked about athlete at the Sochi Game? The Russian "president".

 

So, Winter Olympics, as we come to your closing ceremonies… or wait, did those already happen?  I honestly don’t know.  Are the Olympics even over?

Whatever, I guess you’re not overrated but that’s only because people could care less.  And I don't mean that in the serious, Puritan way, but in sarcastic, Jewish way..