Chicago Fanatics Message Board
https://mail.chicagofanatics.com/

Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
https://mail.chicagofanatics.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=84883		 Page 1 of 4
Author:  Brick [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:28 am ]
Post subject:  Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Prepare to pass the remote to the wife or girlfriend for a few weeks. Sorry pittmike, you lose either way.

We get hockey, if you are in to that kind of thing. The rest of the events are designed as some sort of mechanism for sad/enlightening/inspiring stories about people who spend 4 years training for a sporting event that literally isn't even shown at any other point in the year unless it is counter programming to good sports. Hey, look at this speed skater! He lost 4 years ago! He was sad! Now, he trained hard for four years and he wants to WIN! He has two kids, and it is hard to spend 9 hours going in a circle on an ice rink. Root for him!

Oh yeah, and now we basically have the X games section too but they don't have the snowmobiles yet but even with that you only really care about Shaun White anyways.

So, basically, it's time to watch figure skating and speed skating and short track speed skating and be bored.

Go Olympics! Go Team USA! Don't get blown up!
Author:  Bagels [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Now, he trained hard for four years and he wants to WIN! He has two kids, and it is hard to spend 9 hours going in a circle on an ice rink. Root for him!


that's one thing that's always hard for me to comprehend- is basically everyone in the Olympics rich? or 'sponsored' by someone/something ? how can anyone have time to train that hard over that long of a period for no monetary gain ? i mean you'd basically have to quit any job you had and dedicate yourself completely to it

for basically no reason at all, as rick points out...
Author:  W_Z [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
what drew people to the olympics to begin with was the fact that the athletes were amateurs. that was the allure, in general, for people. ever since the olympians became professional, sponsored, and leagues were created for them to compete year round...all it is now is just a bigger stage for them.

the more social media coverage we get on things, the more insufferable everything becomes.
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:08 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Image
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Image
Author:  Kirkwood [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
BRING BACK SKI BALLET!!!! I'm boycotting until it's brought back.
Author:  Douchebag [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Watching curling is fun.

Everything else, keep it.
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Douchebag wrote:
Watching curling is fun.

Everything else, keep it.

Curling and the Gold Medal Hockey game. Im all set.
Author:  Brick [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
I am looking forward to just how bad this thing is being run though.

https://twitter.com/SWhyno/status/430676101724372992/photo/1

I think I'm officially off the "An Olympics in Chicago would have been nice" bandwagon. Chicago is basically the Russia of the United States.
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Has a city benefited long term from having the olympics in recent history? Seems not
Author:  Douchebag [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
rogers park bryan wrote:
Has a city benefited long term from having the olympics in recent history? Seems not

I was reminded that Salt Lake City existed during the 2002 olympics.
Author:  badrogue17 [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Douchebag wrote:
Watching curling is fun.

Everything else, keep it.

C'mon women's figure skating usually has at least a couple of boneriffic chicks prancing around in those skimpy outfits. Hell, Dorothy Hamill still gets it done for me
Author:  Don Tiny [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Let's wait and see how safe the luge run is before writing that off.
Author:  good dolphin [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
badrogue17 wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
Watching curling is fun.

Everything else, keep it.

C'mon women's figure skating usually has at least a couple of boneriffic chicks prancing around in those skimpy outfits. Hell, Dorothy Hamill still gets it done for me


I sit there glued to the TV waiting for the televised lip slip during a triple sowko.
Author:  bigfan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Couldnt they just have Curling in Chicago! Downhill Ski Jump in Denv. Tubing in Wisconsin!
Author:  Bagels [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
bigfan wrote:
Tubing in Wisconsin!


women's powerlifting
Author:  Hawg Ass [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
There are several of the events that I enjoy watching in the Olympics. I don't make it appointment tv, but if I am home and watching it is pretty good.
Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Curling, Hockey and the stupid thing where they ski and shoot a rifle. Other than that, I dont care.
Author:  Furious Styles [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Winter Olympics are great. Y'all (sorry, just finished season two of Treme') crazy.
Author:  badrogue17 [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Hank Scorpio wrote:
Curling, Hockey and the stupid thing where they ski and shoot a rifle. Other than that, I dont care.

Thats an Alaskan reality show.
Author:  Don Tiny [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Hank Scorpio wrote:
Curling, Hockey and the stupid thing where they ski and shoot a rifle. Other than that, I dont care.


Over there that's called 'Tuesday'.

(it's called the Biathalon)
Author:  Don Tiny [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
http://imgur.com/XY38Flp

"Different types of ice skates used in the Olympics."
Author:  Brick [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
http://deadspin.com/staying-in-sochi-is-a-hilarious-adventure-1515722114

Water too dangerous to use on your face! Toilet paper trash cans!
Author:  Big Chicagoan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
http://deadspin.com/staying-in-sochi-is-a-hilarious-adventure-1515722114

Water too dangerous to use on your face! Toilet paper trash cans!


Those crazy Russians.
Author:  man of few opinions [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
curling is a lot of fun. everyone should try it once, it is a very fun group event.
Author:  Zizou [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
I like bobsled, luge, and hockey. Curling is amusing. And the women's figure skating. I'll be looking for labia.
Author:  Don Tiny [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Zizou wrote:
I like bobsled, luge, and hockey. Curling is amusing. And the women's figure skating. I'll be looking for labia.


You'd figure that age and that cold they'd all be pretty tight-lipped.
Author:  FavreFan [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
I'll watch some hockey, nothing else.
Author:  IMU [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
http://thechive.com/2014/02/04/tugging- ... 53-photos/
Author:  jimmypasta [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Winter Olympics Thread: Sports for girls exist too!
Zizou wrote:
I like bobsled, luge, and hockey. Curling is amusing. And the women's figure skating. I'll be looking for labia.



Is that a new country?
Page 1 of 4 All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
https://www.phpbb.com/