Always have. Always will I’m afraid. Just hate it. Roone Arledge, the creator of all this highlights-based, personality-featured sports coverage should rot in hell forever IMHO. All those channels; why can’t we (if we wanted to) see every performance by every athlete from every country LIVE?
Henry Blodget agrees with me. This is part of a longer rant:
What NBC Sports apparently doesn’t understand (because it has done this to us before, again and again) is that we don’t care who is televising the Olympics.
We don’t want to watch NBC’s “Olympics show”. We want to watch The Olympics. And like every other connected sports fan on the planet these days, we know exactly when the Olympics is taking place and what’s happening there–in real time.
So, right now, for us, NBC isn’t the network that brings us the Olympics. It’s the network that prevents us from watching the Olympics. And we hate NBC for that.
The spot about the Polar Bears. Everybody loves these bears, but what the hell do they have to do with the Olympics. I think the bears got more time than the Men’s Downhill!
Worst coverage ever!
I have been ranting about this over on Oh Fair New Mexico. . .grr.
Here’s the discussion at Oh Fair New Mexico that Lucky mentions.
Although I think we can all agree that too much is never enough when it comes to the delightful Dick Button.
Dick Button and Billy Packer. I’d pay to watch those two cranky old acidic (and often wrong) dinosaurs fight to the death.
Jill must be writing facetiously.
Dick is a dick. He is so out of touch. I am just glad NBC does not use him for the “play by play” any more.
In ‘06, he criticized a couple for ice dancing to “Bolero” because Torvil & Dean set the standard 22 years earlier. He compared it to Judy Garland’s rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the 1930s. Nobody had better even try to sing it.
In what century was this fossil born?
Moreover, I am sick of post competition commentary, show me the damn sports!
In Nagano it was the white monkeys sitting in the hot springs while it snowed. I got so sick of seeing that over and over and over and over….
God help us all if they ever have the Winter Olympics in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Did I hear someone mutter penguins?