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NFT: The Olympics suck and are boring (Long)

allstarjim : 2/13/2018 11:24 am
Look, are the athletes talented? Sure. Are some people interested in watching their talent? Clearly. But imagine if football was like many Olympic sports?

OBJ grabs a catch, makes a spin move, and runs for 60 yards to the end zone...and now we wait for the judges. Carl Banks: The judges are going to love the grace with which he gallops to the end zone here, but the technical score of the spin will be reviewed, he may lose a half-point for being a tad off-balance.

Sports are sports when competitors take the field (or pitch, court, ring, or rink), and prove they are better than you. And they do it by scoring more points or beating you up (in the case of MMA, boxing, and sometimes hockey). There are no judges to analyze IF you did it better. You either WERE better and you win, or you weren't, and you lose, because...scoreboard. And yes, you'd be fair in saying, "Hey man, that's not exactly true...MMA and boxing has judges, duuuude." And while you are technically correct (and don't call me dude), when it goes to the judges, then we just do a do-over. That's why Ali and Frazier fought three times...they just keep fighting each other until one definitively whips the other. 'Haha! NOW WE ALL FINALLY KNOW, I AM THE GREATEST!'

Figure skating...no doubt, the skaters are very talented and athletic. They are graceful, dare I say beautiful and sometimes mesmerizing. However, not really a sport. How is it different than ballet? Or ballroom dancing? Both require athleticism, balance, skill, choreography and sometimes sass. But two of the others are thought of (mostly), as an artistic hobby or entertaining night out. And you need a manual to decipher what the difference is between a triple lutz, salchow, toe loop, flip and axel.

Snowboarding half-pipe? Hey guys, watch me do this McDouble Fakie Corkscrew 720. What? No denying the talent, I certainly can't go up in the air and spin around like that and avoid certain death upon landing, er, splatting. But if you need a panel of judges to validate what you just did? Bah! Not sport, I say. When Giancarlo Stanton hits a 500 ft solo homerun, it's majestic...it's spectacular. When Jose Reyes barely clears the right field fence by the foul pole for a solo homerun, it's a good hit, and no doubt, people will look more in awe of Stanton's shot. But they are both worth 1 run on the scoreboard. As it should be. Stanton doesn't get extra points from the Russian judge.

I particularly find it funny how some sports throw out the high score and low score of the judges. You and you...your opinions don't count this time. Be more middle ground next time in your judging. Seems like not really a good enough reason to discard their judging. What makes their score less valid? Perhaps they are more right than the other judges, and what makes you so qualified to say they aren't?

And that's why judging sucks. Yes, even in boxing and MMA. Nobody likes it when it goes to the judges. We are all disappointed when it happens, and kind of waiting for the guy who we think won to get screwed over. So why would you have a whole sport whose only avenue of declaring victory or defeat is through judges? LAME.

Of course, not all Winter Olympics have judges. There is hockey! And...and...CURLING! YES, CURLING! And then there are the sports where you win by being the fastest. That's cool with me. I'm faster than you, and here, I'm going to prove it.

The only thing I don't get about the timed events is all the different ways to slide down a hill. You have skiing, snowboarding, bobsledding, luge, and skeleton, which sounds like a very unadvisable way to go down a mountain. At any rate, I don't have much issue with them...if you're the fastest luge guy (best lugie?), then you're the fastest. Get 'yer medal, your country is proud of you. But still, watching them all try to get to the bottom of a mountain in different ways, 2-tenths of a second faster than the other guy, isn't great to watch. It's not as bad as watching 3 hours of NASCAR, but in both cases, we just want to see you crash.

But you won the ice dancing competition? Well, that's just like, their opinion, man.

In conclusion, there is a reason they only do this once every 4 years...and not during football season. It's almost like..."Hey guys (in East German accent)...I see your super big champion game is over now, and since you are super bored, perhaps we can interest you in some cold-weather gymnastics on slippery surfaces?" No, no you cannot.

Let's talk about the draft instead...Josh Rosen sucks and is going to be a bust. Just for you, Milton ;) /rant

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What is the show of unity  
pjcas18 : 2/13/2018 2:00 pm : link
free lettuce wraps?
RE: i know  
jnoble : 2/13/2018 2:02 pm : link
In comment 13830971 UESBLUE said:
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another thing thats long and boring...


That's not what the ladies tell me (on the second part not the first)
For me  
jtfuoco : 2/13/2018 2:14 pm : link
I miss the days when it was a larger competition between who would win more metals between the Russians and the Americans and it felt like there was real tension between the athletes. Todays games feel way more campy with every sporting event having a 10 minute character story about every athlete how they overcame to get where they are today and at this point I just don't care anymore its done with every show these days.
I don't watch figure skating for the sport of it.  
fivehead : 2/13/2018 2:19 pm : link
I watch it for the women's tight buns.
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Bill2 : 2/13/2018 2:22 pm : link
snowboarding may not be as subjective as first appears:

1) I remember that the first Gold Medal Shaun White won his average height per jump was double the second place average height. His second his lowest height matched the average of everyone else

2) My understanding is that there is an electronic signal sent to measure the distance ( amplitude) of each jump over the lip of the half pipe X the speed from top to bottom of the pipe

that data record is instantly on the judges computers and counts in the scoring.

how much and how is the overall composite derived...I don't know. But we do know its not all unmeasured visual appeal
RE: Chloe Kim age 17. USA  
Gatorade Dunk : 2/13/2018 2:38 pm : link
In comment 13831050 idiotsavant said:
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Nuff said. 9.825

Next best 8.6 or some shit.


KICKS ASS!!!

Not to mention Red what's his name. Also 17. Also KICKS ASS!

Still getting the scores wrong by an order of 10x hours after it was pointed out to you on a different thread. Never fails.
RE: I don't watch figure skating for the sport of it.  
allstarjim : 2/13/2018 3:16 pm : link
In comment 13831289 fivehead said:
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I watch it for the women's tight buns.


And the sequins! We need more sequins, now!
so because you don't like the Olympics  
Jints in Carolina : 2/13/2018 10:22 pm : link
we should all have that mindset?

Get off my lawn...I fucking love The Olympics.
I would argue the exact opposite  
Knineteen : 2/13/2018 10:57 pm : link
OBJ catches an insane pass for 45 yards and then blows out his knee and is done for the rest of the season. Giants season is over and we have to wait 8 months with our collective thumbs up our asses. Yeah, awesome.

The 4 major sports have absolutely nothing on the Olympics.
The Olympics is instant gratification and represents athletes competing for something other than money. MLB is 162 long and boring games, where millionaires battle other millionaires and teams consider only 65 losses to be a "successful" season.

The Olympics is like having your team in multiple championship games every night. How the hell could anyone not like that?!?!
The mens half pipe snowboarding  
sb2003 : 2/14/2018 12:30 am : link
was an incredibly exciting competition tonight. Some of those dudes are insane.
RE: The mens half pipe snowboarding  
Del Shofner : 2/14/2018 12:41 am : link
In comment 13831805 sb2003 said:
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was an incredibly exciting competition tonight. Some of those dudes are insane.


Not sure about "incredibly exciting" but it was entertaining, and those dudes are definitely insane. Good storyline for the USA with the gold medal run right at the end - well deserved, from what I could see.
RE: RE: The mens half pipe snowboarding  
sb2003 : 2/14/2018 12:55 am : link
In comment 13831808 Del Shofner said:
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In comment 13831805 sb2003 said:


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was an incredibly exciting competition tonight. Some of those dudes are insane.



Not sure about "incredibly exciting" but it was entertaining, and those dudes are definitely insane. Good storyline for the USA with the gold medal run right at the end - well deserved, from what I could see.


Not everyone is a fan. I loved it.
Thanks allstarjim  
mdthedream : 2/14/2018 6:43 am : link
She was screaming last night with Shaun Whites last run in Halfpipe for the Gold.
Shaun White's half-pipe  
PaulBlakeTSU : 2/14/2018 12:43 pm : link
run was incredible. The amount of air that he and Chloe Kim get relative to other snowboarders is freakish
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