Posted on 07/08/2005 6:02:21 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Rocker Sheryl Crow has ruined the Tour de France.
Well, she's ruined it for me, anyway. I'm sure her fans are much more interested in cycling now that she's lending her astute commentary to the race coverage.
But I'm not impressed, or enlightened. Just annoyed.
Because her famous boyfriend, Lance Armstrong, is wearing the yellow jersey, I'm supposed to care about what she thinks of his position in the peloton?
No, thanks.
Listen. We know you support him. We all support him. My guess is, when he was married, his wife even supported him. But she wasn't sharing her insights with Bob Roll and Al Trautwig. And she probably knew more than some spotlight-hogging rock star.
What makes Crow's ubiquitousness more disappointing is that the Tour de France was always one of those sporting events that didn't seem to need the touch of celebrity; huge as it was in the cycling world, it managed to keep a low profile everywhere else. In my teen years, I scoured the networks for signs of the tour, but those days, it wasn't huge. There were no cable networks to track the live progress of Greg LeMond, Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon or Pedro Delgado. Instead, I'd set a VCR for six hours on a Sunday, and cross my fingers for about 20 minutes of highlights.
Now I have the luxury to watch every stage live if I want, and listen to the sharp commentary from Phil Liggett - who's been narrating the tour for as long as I remember - and Paul Sherwin. It's a great thing for Tour junkies.
Until now, when the second-day commentary featured Sheryl Crow, in her breathy, soft Southern twang, fretting: "Oh my gosh, I was sooo worried that I made Lance's foot slip out of his pedal, 'cause I gave him the thumbs-up just then, and I asked him later, 'was it my fault?' "
Ugh.
There she is, on a split- screen while Lance is pedaling furiously. There she is, on the sidelines when the racers start the stage. There she is, riding in a support car with five- time tour winner Hinault. There she is, canoodling with Lance.
There she is, EVERYWHERE.
The tour doesn't need Sheryl Crow to make it relevant, but yet there she is, in front of the cameras, sharing her thoughts and relating to the masses. I wouldn't be surprised if she starts playing a number or two during the pre-race coverage.
On second thought, maybe I shouldn't give the geniuses who decided to put her on the air in the first place any more ideas.
Something tells me he already has.
Maybe YOU should read the thread, too...since she's already been informed, multiple times.
All of you can go ahead and knock Cheryl Crowe for whatever dumbass reason you want, but ya must be asexual not to think she's just plain HOT as hell.
You might's well be plantlife, holy sh*t. Unbelievable!
Yoko redux
Watching paint dry is probably the most stringent exercise you've ever done, huh.
No wonder you don't get it.
I got the feeling that it was the fledgling network using Crow, and not the other way around.
Here here, well said.
Lol, I'd pay money for that, and I'm not even a road biker.
I'm curious myself. Why is it that divorce is overlooked on these threads if the guy who's divorced happens to be popular in the circle? No one ever pisses and moans about Newt or Reagan having both been divorced, but let the guy ride a bicycle and man.....
I agree with you about Newt (I don't care for him), but I believe Jane Wyman left Ronnie, and he did not want a divorce. She found him boring.
Okay, I stand corrected.
He didn't dump her for the floozy, but he did dump his wife and kids. How is that any "better"?
Divorce is an evil thing.
Let me guess, you're a Lance fan..
I wouldn't call it any "better", that's for sure. I am no friend of divorce, in general, growing up as a child whose parents divorced.
That being said, from what I understand, there is some debate about who dumped whom. :)
Could it get any more "As the World Turns"? LOL!
Hey, you can take mountain biking just about as far as you can road biking these days. I'm an avid mountain biker, and I love it. I just don't want to deal with the traffic on a road bike. A 12 mile off road course can be as much exercise as any 30 mile trip on the road. I just recently ordered a Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo, and I can't wait until it gets here. With a 13" frame, the whole bike, including accessories, tools and supplies should be in the neighborhood of 25 pounds.
No doubt. As 40+ women go, very, very, very few have remained as hot as Crow.
Your points are well taken. I think I should just hush up on this for now.. :-)
I bitch about Newt. Reagan was left by his wife.
If he was not the one who filed for divorce, I've been totally unfair in my view of him.. Still, I feel very sorry for the children.. :-/
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