On 2/21/14, 12:48 PM, KC wrote:
On 2/21/2014 12:23 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:52:27 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 2/21/14, 10:39 AM, True North wrote:
History has been made!



A sport to be taken seriously! About two decades ago, I was in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, in January. It was below zero when our plane landed, and
the snow banks were humongous. I spent three days there. The hotel's TV
only had three channels, and every channel was broadcasting live from a
bigtime curling tournament somewhere in Canada. I had very little
offtime when I was, but I did watch about a half hour of curling, and
was fascinated by the special words and terms and descriptions of what
was taking place, especially when the "finesse" aspects of the game were
being described. It sort of reminded me of bocce and shuffleboard.

It seems like an amateur sport, with no highly paid professionals. If
that is true, then it surely is appropriate for the Olympics, which
these days is overrun with professional athletes. Isn't the U.S. Hockey
Team comprised of professional, highly paid National Hockey League
players?

Shuffleboard...that's what we've been saying. I can't understand why
there are no highly paid
players of the 'sport'.


On a tangent, cause I can... There is starting to be some grumbling in
the ranks of the MX world, the fastest man on the planet last weekend at
the AMA Supercross event, paid $2500.. while the promoters made
millions....


Perhaps the riders should unionize...