Posted on 08/06/2021 9:00:14 AM PDT by Starman417
Remember the days when everyone watched the Olympics to see America's best athletes represent us on the world stage? To be honest, while I'd always watched the Olympics, I never tuned in wall to wall or went too crazy over them. I was always waiting for the day that American football got added as a sport looking forward to seeing the USA beating whatever opponent 49-0... at the end of the first quarter. But that aside, there still is something really cool about seeing the joy in the faces of our Olympians celebrating winning gold medals, and seeing them on the medal stand as our National Anthem plays. Or at least there was. Now we're treated to exhausting rounds of selfish protests, amplified by the Radical Leftists who've taken over sports media and choose to amplify these stories instead of the hardworking athletes who simply get the job done. Think about it - what stories did you hear about the most leading up to the Olympics, tales of promising athletes looking to represent their country, or the nasty protesters?
Ace's Oregon Muse gave a quick roundup of how the Wokelympics are going:
Megan Rapinoe got to be the face of an underachieving soccer team.
Professional Ingrate Gwen Berry finished 11th... out of 12 in the hammer throw.
And "Laurel" Hibbard, a Dude in a Dress (DIAD), representing as New Zealand's powerlifter, didn't even make it out of the qualifying round. Although I wish he had, for the same reasons that Muse states.
I would also add that ratings are down, and advertisers are understandably annoyed. Muse also forgot to mention our men's basketball team getting embarrassed in a loss to... France. Even worse for me personally, after the fact, I realized that I was rooting for France to win because their players were less anti-American than ours. France. YouTuber Mecharandom 42, in a video on a completely different topic, made a great brief point about not representing a country you don't like.
This brings me to the one story in this Olympics that truly interested me, but one that I doubt you heard about. Unless you follow the women's 400M hurdles, of course. Sydney McLaughlin, one of America's top prospects for a gold medal, happens to be an alumnus of my high school. And while I missed her first two races, there was no way I'd miss her Tuesday night run, scheduled for @ 10:30 PM. Equally cool was seeing the watch party being held at a bar up in Jersey and Sydney's old Principal (also my old Principal - what is it about Nuns that makes it seem like they live forever?) sitting front and center. Yes, brief flashes of this actually made it on the air on NBC. And then came the race itself, and an old feeling came back.
Any longtime sports fan has at one time or another experienced what can only be called "The Sports High". You know that feeling when some improbable or slump-breaking victory happens and you are jumping and shouting like a giddy ten-year-old. I've experienced it three times in my life. The first was when the 1998 Atlanta Falcons capped off an improbable comeback victory over the heavily favored Vikings. I still remember watching Morten Anderson's kick sail through the uprights, jumping up and down in my buddy's living room in Tampa and screaming "I'm going to Miami! (where the Super Bowl would be held that year) I am going to MOTHER (Fudging) MIAMI!!! while doing D-Generation X crotch chops (hey, it was the 90s). My second would come on a college football Thursday night in November 2006, when then 9-0, and perennial doormat, Rutgers (the alma mater of Father Bob) beat also undefeated and #3 ranked Louisville on a last-second field goal to secure a bowl bid. Even though it was probably @ 11:30 at night, I called my at the time 70-something-year-old dad to congratulate him. He picked up immediately and the first words out of my mouth were "I know it's too late to call, and I also know you weren't sleeping." I was right, and he emailed later that he was so fired up he didn't fall asleep until 3:00 that night. And my third was... well, anyone who knows me also knows that before the NFL said it didn't want me as a fan anymore I bled Eagle Green, and Super Bowl 52 ended years of frustration - when Brady's last desperate pass bounced harmlessly on the turf the collective scream that went through The District Anchor and the next few hours was like nothing I'd ever experienced. Sorry for the tangent, but it was needed to set the stage for my fourth Sports High..
As I watched the race, the focus was on Sydney and also favored American runner Dalilah Muhammad. The announcers pointed out that Sidney was doing a great job of pacing about halfway through, and then she poured it on. I was on my feet, jumping up & down, and trying not to make any noise that would wake Little Bob as Sidney captured the gold. The combination of her win and seeing the old Union Catholic crowd going nuts for Sidney brought that old feeling back. And then hearing Sidney and Dalilah's interview immediately afterward - both happy, humble, and honored to bring home the wins for America was damned refreshing. And both thanked God for helping them achieve their success - that interview was the perfect cap to an amazing moment.
And afterward, I was reminded of how much I miss the camaraderie of sports. I miss just being able to sit down at any bar with a game on and being to be able to almost instantly connect with almost any stranger over a beer. Now there isn't a pro sports league that hasn't allowed the stench of Marxist politics to taint the experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
It’s been this general trend of making the presentation of sports on TV, all sports, more geared towards the female audience.
Just compare the broadcasts of football today compared to back in the 1970s. And then they had to start adding female sideline reporters.
LOL, I always think of this classic from Bear Bryant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVvKHvSp_o
Representing a country where a person has never lived but where one’s spouse or grandparents were born makes a mockery of representing one’s country.
there are still some good things at the limpics but you have to look for them...
Naomi Osaka, represents Japan although she hadn’t lived there since she was 3, and can barely even speak the language.
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It was a huge deal in our house. Especially back before the days of cable TV, we only had a few channels, with not much worth watching really, but big events like boxing, Olympics, evil kneivil jumping snake river canyon, or whatever it was etc. We all lookEd forward to watching these ‘big events’ as a family, especially when national pride was on the line in the Olympics. We all felt a great sense of pride in the nation, especially when our team might have been the j derdogs, like the the miracle on ice, in upstate ny where our hockey team beat the ruskies. That was awesome!
What a disgrace the o.ymlics have become now though. I feel sorry for all the hard working country loving, God fearing athletes who have to suffer because of the actions of God hating, country loathing, wokesters and faux gender athletes ruined the k,ymlics for millions of proud Americans, and made a mockery of the games
Ooh, I see FSU is up to 2 Bronze medals now. hee hee.
now, you turn on to an event and then you find out it actually happened the night before....
I know the level of wokeness coming into the Olympics was very high but the fact is that during the coverage there has been very little on display relative to the amount of pure sports coverage. Maybe I just have too much time on my hands but I’m enjoying it.
Sheesh, my cable bill is $200+, and I don't get that channel you have.
The U.S. Hockey team of 1980 is a good example. The famous win over USSR occurred in Lake Placid quite a few hours before it was shown on TV that evening but very few people knew the outcome until it aired.
Word did leak out in my area (Boston) only because so many players were from the Boston area and families were spreading the word far and wide by telephone. We also had a couple of radio stations let the cat out of the bag.
I was living in the next town over from Mike Euruzione. I went to his victory parade in Winthrop.
In recent years, the entire Olympics has lost its appeal to me. I don't pay any attention anymore.
Yep, Boston is big into hockey. Cool. Story about the parade. As a new englander at the time, that win was extra special to us.
And Bob Costas is gone so you don't have NBC's equivalent of a cop showing up at a party telling you to end the fun and go home.
Nationalism is passe. Now we need a one world team and they have one sport, defeat conservatives who love their countries.
You are correct sir, however it’s more than passe.
Our children along with our institutions
have been de-nationalized while we
were asleep.
“The Olympics – What We’ve Lost as Americans”
A metaphor for what America has lost...period.
All I care about is outstanding individual performances by decent, honorable athletes regardless of country. Names such as Jesse Owens, Billy Mills, Alberto Juantorena, Valerily Borzov, Guy Drut, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner, Michael Norman, Flo jo, Daphne Schipper and so many more come to mind.
Though I always watched the Olympics in years past, I was always angered and frustrated by how the idiotic talking NBC heads made the games about themselves with their incessant studio time and their habit of limiting images of only certain hand-picked events, of which we were allowed to watch only the climaxing seconds. An app on some Apple black box now allows one to watch complete events, either live, in replay or as highlights, without that insipid dwarf costas messing it up.
Snort. Only those not connected to anything else.
Franz Klammer on the downhill is still the most exciting Olympic event I ever saw.
Eh, I never really got into the rah rah thing. Always thought it was counter to the real point of the Olympics as a celebration of sport and human excellence. Also the fact that Hitler and the USSR were the early adherents to using the Olympics to “prove” their superiority probably didn’t help. All the medal counts and “representing” and all that is just not interesting to me. Watch some cool sports you don’t watch a lot, maybe even something you never heard of. Don’t worry about the flags that might get raised at the end.
...and so many more!
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