curling

has anyone else taken the time to watch this "sport?" i use quotations here because any activity where over the hill, pasty-faced, bowling alley regulars can win Olympic medals leaves me questioning whether or not i know the meaning of the word sport. anyway, i seem to have caught the riveting game midway through the action. (by the way, action means a group of about six of the aforementioned athletes pointing at some pieces of metal on the ice and heatedly speaking in a foreign language.) after a lot of this action, i can tell things are really going to get going when the crowd starts to make noise. when nothing happens, i realize the crowd consists of the one person who probably got lost on the way to the speed skating arena and has resorted to heavy drinking in order to keep entertained. then, one of the coach potato look alikes chunks a metal thing down a frozen runway while his personal slaves sweep the ice in its projected path. then, some more pointing and discussing takes place. that's about the time i clicked over to the weather channel, and yes, it was more exciting to watch animated suns wearing sunglasses tell me how to plan my week.