Today I just watched him interview one of the goalies from that USSR team, Vladislav Tretiak, know as one of the greatest goalies in the world of all time.
Tretiak was very, very complimentary of the USA team from back then. It was truly a graceful, humble man who was sitting there with Al. Tretiak had actually been taken out of that game after the first period by the Soviet coach, something I would have struggled to remember even though I watched all of that game.
I also watched this years Russia-USA game in its entirety. The USA won it in dramatic fashion in an 8-round shootout. The USA's JT Oshie did the honors after scoring in his turn and then getting the chance to shoot all 5 of the extra shots.
The Americans didn't really deserve to win that game, in my opinion though. The Russians scored what looked like a game-winning goal with about 4 minutes left to play. But it was overturned after a video review revealed that the goal was off of it stakes and therefore made the goal no good. In the NHL the goal would have counted but not in international play. Further analysis still nullified the goal, but that rule is sort of odd given the distance that the goal was actually displaced.
Oshie, it should be noted, when someone said he was a hero, quickly shot back that he wasn't a hero, but those who wear camo(flage) were the real heroes. True, so true. Wait until he gets home to play for the St. Louis Blues when the Games are over this year. He'll get great rounds of applause and deservedly so.
Our speed skaters are taking a big dump in their events. There is concern that the uniforms they are wearing, designed by Under Armor, were failing the skaters. However a change of uniforms didn't seem to help and, as far as I can see, we are without a victory in that event.
I know figure skater Jeremy Abbott is all pissed off because people are getting all over him for falling in a second event in which he competed,
But I hate to tell him that America is pissed that he fell twice. We send a handful of competitors there and we expect them to stay on their skates.
While I do like the new snowboarding events in the games, I do struggle with events that are judged. I always have....that includes figure skating, gymnastics, diving and the like. I can't suggest a better way to deal with figuring out who is the best, I just don't care for the human element in judging.
One of the new snowboarding events which is great is the snowboard cross, which is a race between 5 or 6 boarders down the hill with jumps and curves. That has great action including great falls which, sad to say, I like to watch...sort of like car racing.
I did just watch the Brazilian two-woman bobsled team take a major crash. If you have an On Demand feature you can find it there. But all I could think of was, "of course this is a disaster in the making. Its like the Jamaican bobsled team. We know a country like Brazil isn't going to field a competitive sledding team."
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| Head Meets Wall at 100 mph |
Our sledders have done rather well. It does make me wonder how I could personally do in the Luge or the Skeleton. Im 250 lbs; I could break some major speed records, if not a few walls along the way.
I haven't watched the Today show during these Olympics so far. So I have been spared the idiocy of Savannah Guthrie. Perhaps this week I'll take a glimpse.
There has been controversy about Bob Costas' political observations while he was able to host the prime-time shows. The debate was over what he was actually debating during those discussions. But the idiots who are debating what he has been saying are missing the whole point. The political conversation have NO PLACE in these broadcasts about sports. We can talk all day about Vladimir Putin and Syria and Communism and how Obama loves it. We don't want ANY talk about politics from those who are political wonks.
I do love the actual coverage of the Games so far though. I can see every single play and every inch of every course is covered so we don't miss anything. With HD and super slow motion in ND its spectacular. They are even using drones with cameras, a much better use of drones than what Amazon plans to use them to do.
There are still ass clowns out there talking the weather in Sochi and that because its warm there right now that global warming is still something to deal with as a global community. Meanwhile 49 states in the US have snow on them right now.
I read a bunch of other idiots saying that arctic ice is melting and screwing up the jet stream which is why heat is now causing cold. Of course, that leave out the actual fact that arctic ice is increasing but lets not even talk about that.
Someone needs to prove to me that if I light a fire I can create ice with it. Because that is what these jerkoffs actually want us to believe.
But THEN please tell me how more warmth is going to be bad for the world. Keep in mind that these alarmists are concerned about a ONE degree average rise in temperature in the next 100 years.
Right about now, I think about 5 of the 6 billion people on the planet will take that one degree ANY time.
Idiots. Its time to call these Al Gore fans exactly what they are...idiots.
Where was I? Oh...by the way, Sochi is a resort city in Russia on the Black Sea. It's not known as a winter city with average daily highs in February of 50 degrees and average daily lows in February of 36. So its 45 degrees there today and people are blaming humans for the snow melting.
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| Sochi, home of the 2014 Winter Olympics |
Some of what these competitors are doing simply aren't natural though. The height they are getting in skiing and snowboarding are just begging for incredible accidental deaths. I was watching a video of extreme activities that included motorcycles, cliffs, parachutes and other things and places where humans test the limits of sanity. I was sick to my stomach just watching some of it.
I do wonder why we....oh come on, I just watched Lindsay Jacobellis fall again in the snowboard cross. That makes it three Olympics in a row. She was way in the lead too.
Faye Gulini stayed on her feet though, but only managed a fourth place.
So I wonder why we take some events that only take a minute to complete and only allow one run to decide the winners, like in speed skating, but the curlers play 9 one-hour games in the round-robin part of the contest. It doesn't make any sense.
Lugers get 4 runs...that seems about fair. Why does a speed skater only get one shot at his/her race? SEND ME THE ANSWER PLEASE!
That's it. I'm just really bored. My life is kind of sucking right now so I am just sitting here in need of some release, so that was it.
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