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NBC Olympic Coverage (Nothing But Commentary)
I’m an Olympic junkie, I love the sport, the spectacle and the competition. Watching Shawn White dominate the half pipe took me back to my skateboarding roots (before even Tony Hawk was skating), I love the precision of speed skating and the reckless danger of downhill.
I haven’t quite figured out Curling just yet, but I can see why it normally goes so well with beer 
But what has marred almost every Olympic experience is a new slogan I’ve come up with for NBC, originally it stood for the ‘National Broadcasting Company’, but times change and now it should stand for ‘Nothing But Commentary’.
I challenge any normal thinking person to watch any downhill skiing and not have to finally either fast forward or turn the volume down, let me give you a taste of what I hear every time:
Every time I watch downhill, I could swear that Luis Tully is the second announcer, and I’m, pretty certain they are getting paid by the word. Look if you have something interesting to add then do it and SHUT UP, so I can enjoy watching the sport. I dream of a day when I can have a seperate remote that will turn off the announcers and their vapid prattling about technical details I simply don’t care about. I want to watch the games, not listen to a commentary by the Rain Man…
-Paul-
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