Posted on 02/17/2014 9:55:32 AM PST by Nachum
Is that a bar fight? A Nascar race? An unusually aggressive pep rally? No — It’s Olympic curling! And there is screaming. So much screaming. Why? Well, it’s simply how teammates communicate with each other as they guide the stones, sweep by sweep, to the bulls-eye.
But, for some, that's not immediately apparent:
How do people understand curling? Like actually... What is it? Why are they screaming? Are those swiffers? Aren't they cold in tshirts? — Jennie McGowan (@jenniemac44) February 16, 2014
To understand the method behind the mayhem, one must first know the rules of curling. For starters, players aim to direct heavy, granite stones across a sheet of textured ice toward a target area called the house. (Consider curling a distant cousin of shuffleboard.) Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding the stones — also called “rocks” —toward the target. Each team has eight stones per end, which is curling's version of, say, a baseball inning. There are 10 ends in a tournament-style game.
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Is that “Flo” from the Progressive Insurance commercials?
Yeah, face it, we’re watching cause they have cute babes, not because we care how deep into a target anyone can slide a rock.
Curling is an affirmative action olympic sport allowing fat and or out of shape people a place in the Olympics.
...a form of body English....amusing.
Because they tried out for other sports and wound up on the curling team.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Poor Flo. Likeable lady who got a job at an insurance company owned by an elitist socialist crony capitalist scum.
I dunno who the picture is of. Looks a bit like her.
Have a Canadian friend. He said THE best places to go are curling bars. he said it’s like a pool hall but with curling. he said when the beer flows awhile, the place goes absolutely berserk. He’s sent me a vid or two. It’s pretty dang funny.
better yet- why is curling an Olympic “sport”???
Why won't NBS broadcast men's or women's Biathalon? Even when it is on the schedule, they broadcast Curling or just about anything else they can besides a sport that uses a gun. Really? What the hell are they afraid of?
I have tried DVR'ing Biathalon 3 times...sometimes in the wee hours EST but all 3 times, they have gone off their schedule and broadcast something else. I know the men's 15k was pushed back due to fog but NBC never re-broadcast it.
It's p!$$!ing me off.
I have seen the Biathalon in cable listings. It was either USA Network or NBCSN, I think.
The over-the-air NBC appears to be all about ice dancing.
Do the girls in these Canadian curling bars look anything like the Russian Women’s Curling Team?
Cause if so I’m on the next flight to Saskatoon.
because people will watch it (see reasons above)
RE Progressive: Yeah, they’re not hiding it, for sure.
RE Flo: Funny character. Like the Geico caveman or the Budweiser lizard series form the 90s. Memorable advertisements.
I think that is a wonderful analogy
I'm waiting for four man bobsled/biathlon. Instead of just sitting there give the two guys in the middle a rifle and have them shoot at targets on the way down.
Its HAMMER time.
Sure looks like Flo, especially the eyes. Upturned at the corners.
LOL, that opens up a fun topic: What other hybrid sports would you like to see?
- Finnish Dwarf Curling
- Bobiathlon
- ???
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