Though it was for the bronze, the U.S. curling team played a gold-medal quality game against Britain for our first ever medals in curling. Though I knew nothing about curling before watching the Team USA play their first game against Norway in round-robin play, I immediately was hooked. Curling ended up being the only game I really followed during the Olympics, and we were the underdogs in the men’s competition (the women’s competition was another story; Team USA was a favorite coming in and caught a lot of tough breaks keeping them from the finals), but, near the end, our team tied for first in the round-robin play. And that last game, ever player was near perfect. So congrats to some hard-earned medals, and now SarahK and I are going to have to look into starting a curling club locally.
Uh, dude. You live in Florida. Leave the ice sports for us living in the Frozen Northern States.
Curling is a fun sport. Though it takes a little to get the balance of sliding sideways while sweeping and avoiding the stones 🙂 I have not done it for a decade so I bet I would be even worse than I was.
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While I appreciate the effort for the medals on America’s part, I just can’t seem to get excited about curling. Not that it doesn’t take skill and all; it just seems as sporty to me as Olympic “Speedwalking” during the summer games.
Then again, I didn’t medal in anything at all, so maybe I ought to shut my yap.
Why would you do that? People might think you were Canadian.
Perhaps you could develop a truly American version. Drop the sweeping and the Hurrrrrrrrreeeeeeee Harrrrrrrd business and replace it with something more quintessentially American.
For example, you are permitted three shots from a pistol of your choice to change the direction of your rock while it is moving.
Frank and Sarah, I know you’ve got Netflix (you’ve talked about it enough) so put “Men With Brooms” on your movie list. It basically does to curling what Slap-Shot does to hockey.
Well… maybe not really. But it is a funny movie. And it’s got Leslie Nielsen in it.
In Florida you GOLF. You can do it all year round, and you talk about wanting to curl?!?!?!!! What the eff is wrong with you? You make me sick. Some people would give their left gonad to have that opportunity.
Wierd-ass sports like curling are for people in frozen wastelands who desperately need something to do outside while drinking so that they don’t slaughter their families in a fit of cabin fever. Leave it to them.
Go get some clubs, for the love of Mike!
Dude, your in Florida. The closest activity you could do is Schuffleboard! LOL Damn your old! LOL You get married…then you start acting like senior citizens.
Curling ROCKS!!!!!!!
No, sorry. Actually they use “stones”. hee hee hee