I'm telling you...it's the sport of kings....

Between NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and the extra 5 channels DirectTV has dedicated to the Olympics, i've been inclined to occasionally take a trip over to one of those channels to see what's happening. Now the big channels are reserved for the big sports, swimming, gymnastics, etal. But there's some pretty exciting stuff on those "off" channels. The other day, about 2pm (my time), I caught an increadible match of one-on-one badminton. The pride of Estonia was giving the German champ all he could handle. The commentator (that's right, even for badminton...there's a Howard Cossell) pointed it out several times by noting how the german was having to "wipe the sweat off his brow"!

Come on...can't we do better than badminton? I couldn't figure out which was the saddest aspect of this event.....

1. That these guys, who god love 'em were giving this "sport" their all, were relagated to playing at 2am china time
2. The the country of Estonia, population about the same as Metro Nashville, even bothered to ask it's people..."hey, anyone here play badminton"....and someone said yes
3. That the TWO commentators assigned made no real effort to comment on the game other to make stupid, obvious observations, and fake excitment with lines like "whew...he almost missed that speeding shuttlecock"

I'm still waiting for Rock/Paper/Scissors to be come a formal event....then I can dream of representing my country...in a beer stained shirt with a chicken wing in the other hand!