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USA curling’s 'Miracurl on Ice' gold-medal win goes viral
Newsday ^ | 2-24-2018 | Neil Best

Posted on 02/24/2018 2:33:02 PM PST by ak267

When it ended with the United States’ first gold in the sport at about 4:15 a.m. Eastern (6:15 p.m. in Korea), more than 77,000 people were streaming the event through NBC’s Olympics website.

How many were watching on television on NBCSN? It ended so late that data will not be available until Sunday for the 3 to 4:15 a.m. ET portion of the telecast. But an average of 1.58 million viewers were watching from 1:30 to 3 a.m., a remarkable figure given the hour, the sport and the channel.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 2018olympics; curling; gold; olympics; teamusa
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To: VanDeKoik

What? You mean there are no enormous drainage culverts in the alps? Thought that was where that weird “pipe” thing got started.


21 posted on 02/24/2018 3:08:29 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: SamAdams76
I think some liberal female journalist-babe will holler loud and often if the women's team receives any less coverage than the men's curling team.

We live in a different age.

22 posted on 02/24/2018 3:16:24 PM PST by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s only boring if all you’re looking for is action. Curling requires talent to make the rock go where you want, but also there’s an intellectual aspect to it. It’s almost more strategic than physical.


23 posted on 02/24/2018 3:18:20 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: PROCON

In 1980 it was a bunch of TRUE amateur college players from the USA playing against PROFESSIONAL layers from the USSR.

There is no such disparity today.


24 posted on 02/24/2018 3:46:54 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: SamAdams76

Thanks for the link. It was a hoot watching that


25 posted on 02/24/2018 3:47:08 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: ak267

The Curling team is a bit older, a bit less full of themselves than the younger athletes, and more Americans could identify with them. Americans pretty much had it with the NBC announcers, Lindsay Vonn, the two gay skaters, and miscellaneous tantrum throwing divas. Not to mention the adulation for MsRocket Woman, known to torture/kill her political opponents .. and then DARE to compare her to Ivanka Trump. So this year, the Curling team was the American sweetheart team.


26 posted on 02/24/2018 3:51:42 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: SandyInSeattle

i watched it live last night.....i thought it was very cool...it had to be a thrill for those 4 guys, they really sang the anthem with gusto.


27 posted on 02/24/2018 4:05:24 PM PST by basalt
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To: SamAdams76

same thing happened to me with golf...once i played, i was hooked...loved it ever since. I just regret not playing when i was in my 20’s...


28 posted on 02/24/2018 4:08:38 PM PST by basalt
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To: PROCON

“Will SI make it a cover story?”

Oh, I suppose it’s possible the U.S. Women’s Hockey team might get a cover - if SI doesn’t give it to the gay skater (Rippon?) for his “brave” resistance to the evil Mike Pence and his brutal Christianity.

For several years after 1980 I could recite the names of all of the players from that U.S. team: Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Dave Christian, and Mark Pavelich, Buzz Schneider, Phil Verchota and Rob McClanahan - heck, I even knew how to spell Steve Janaszak’s name (and he never played a single minute if I recall correctly). There is zero chance - except perhaps for a very small number of hockey playing young girls - that kids today are taking the time to learn the names of the Gold Medal winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team. That’s for several reasons:

- Times have changed.
- Their win over Canada was not a decisive victory in regular time (a shoot out?!).
- The Canadian women are not nearly as dominant as the Soviets were back then. The Soviets had not lost a single game in 12 years (1968-1980!).
- Almost no one is watching this Olympics. Many people have NBC’s coverage and now so many people have 150 channels to choose from.
- This wasn’t as unexpected as the 1980 win.
- It didn’t happen on U.S. soil where people could watch it all unfold in real time.


29 posted on 02/24/2018 4:34:26 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: ak267

Mr. T became a big curling fan. He coined probably the best Twitter hashtag ever #curlingiscoolfool.

It’s an oddly relaxing and invigorating sport to watch. I grew up near Detroit and watched it often on Canadian TV.

Caught about half of the Gold medal game today.


30 posted on 02/24/2018 4:37:52 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: ak267

Where curling began:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTVtvYGupwM


31 posted on 02/24/2018 4:50:16 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: SamAdams76

You have to see it from Kirstie’s point of view: it has nothing to do with food, so of course it’s boring.


32 posted on 02/24/2018 4:52:33 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: vladimir998

Did you see the movie, “Miracle”? What a great, patriotic movie about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team!


33 posted on 02/24/2018 5:02:43 PM PST by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: PROCON
Did you see the movie, “Miracle”? What a great, patriotic movie about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team!

If they made that movie today, they would have to shoehorn a black player into it.
34 posted on 02/24/2018 5:04:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: PROCON

“On a similar note, do you think the women’s hockey team winning the gold medal will garner equal coverage as the men’s did in 1980?”

It can’t.

The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics came at the depths of the Carter Despair when absolutely everything was going wrong for the United States.

Gas lines, inflation, Watergate, the collapse of Vietnam, Soviet Adventurism unopposed all over the globe and Iran hostages.

And then suddenly out of nowhere a bunch of college kids beat the invincible Soviet Union hockey team.

Even the Soviet players stood in shocked admiration, you can see it in the film clips. Winning the Gold two days later by beating Finland was almost an anticlimax.

I’ve always had the sneaking feeling that this played a role in Reagan winning the Presidency eight months later.


35 posted on 02/24/2018 5:06:36 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: PROCON

“On a similar note, do you think the women’s hockey team winning the gold medal will garner equal coverage as the men’s did in 1980?”

It can’t.

The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics came at the depths of the Carter Despair when absolutely everything was going wrong for the United States.

Gas lines, inflation, Watergate, the collapse of Vietnam, Soviet Adventurism unopposed all over the globe and Iran hostages.

And then suddenly out of nowhere a bunch of college kids beat the invincible Soviet Union hockey team.

Even the Soviet players stood in shocked admiration, you can see it in the film clips. Winning the Gold two days later by beating Finland was almost an anticlimax.

I’ve always had the sneaking feeling that this played a role in Reagan winning the Presidency eight months later.


36 posted on 02/24/2018 5:06:36 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: SamAdams76

I curled in high school in Madison, WI. I enjoyed the sport. Kirstie can bite me!


37 posted on 02/24/2018 5:14:07 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Build Kates Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: ak267
New Pro league coming... National Curling League... 😀
38 posted on 02/24/2018 5:15:40 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Jane Austen

I hate to break it to you, but politics doesn’t have to be infused into everything.


39 posted on 02/24/2018 5:19:50 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: ak267

Gold in curling. Another one checked on the lifetime bucket list ....


40 posted on 02/24/2018 5:54:03 PM PST by sphinx
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