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NBC Redeemed

Posted By: indosage
Filed Under: Comedy, Sports on February 25, 2010

NBC is paying a little bit of their dues with their cross-country ski coverage. The commentators are breaking the game and the skiers down with condescension and pure shit talking. Never has NBC been this exciting even with the whole Leno/Conan hoopla. While the skiers are skiing for their lives (some literally wish for a death bed after crossing the finish line) for some two hours in icy terrain, NBC commentators are calling them “hopeless” and at most, skiing for bronze. I think they might have read some of the Rational Investor’s comments on NBC’s fixation with sappy stories and their incessant feeding of the US’s superiority complex and actually started calling it as it is.

But really though… this time around it was actually fun watching the Olympics, because I got to yell at the screen on behalf of the skiers… Whoever was saying they weren’t looking too good should ski uphill for two hours themselves.

Now if they can only quit jumping events and show one at a time instead of 50 within 5 minutes.

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