After eight days of Olympic watching (and yes, I’m still watching most of it with the mute button on), Ohio State basketball watching, Cleveland Cavaliers watching and Tiger Woods watching, here are some thoughts on well, stuff.
1) New Blue Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice told the Winnipeg Sun this week that he’s going to take telephone calls on his radio show again.
He’d better go 18-0 or he’ll regret that decision.
2) Here is the typical response I’ve received from e-mailers on Canada’s Own the Podium program.
Scottie
Own the podium my expletive! I am not your typical apathetic Canadian….I’M EXPLETIVE PISSED OFF. Just watched the Koreans sweep the short track speed skating. GIVE ME AN EXPLETIVE BREAK…KOREA?
Outside of Nesbitt…the entire speed skating program long and short…along with the alpine skiing program has been a total joke and a disgrace. Especially on Canadian soil. What the expletive have they been doing for the past four years? Smoking dope?Are these people not in shape? Do they not train properly? Or is it just the laid back attitude of accepting LOSING IN CANADA. Or maybe it is just Canadian genetics? I don’t know!
Well, I won’t accept it. NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH SHOULD BEAT US ON ICE…we should be the expletive ICE KINGS OF EARTH.
These programs have to be revalued and heads must roll. I don’t mind my tax dollar going to support our athletes….BUT YOU BETTER START SHOWING SOME RESULTS.
Korea…GIVE ME A BREAK…!
And If I hear that ‘I Believe’ song one more time….my expletive head is going to explode….or I’m going to kill somebody! So I guess I will be using the mute button on a regular basis from now on….as you can’t turn on your TV or change the channel without it bellowing from the speakers.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this expletive any longer.
Ted Arichteff
Winnipeg.
For a lot of Canadians that pre-Olympic TV hype combined with the $118 million Own the Podium program was just a little too much to take.
We should win four medals in hockey and curling so we’ll easily get into double figures in medals, and for me, that’s about as much as could have hoped for. I think Canada will look back on this experience as a good one, but we over-promised and that’s never good.
3) Tiger Woods didn’t owe me an apology. I don’t care what he does with his own life. None of my business.
I just want to know when he’s going to play golf again because the overwhelming boredom that is today’s PGA Tour is for mavens only. Ian Poulter vs. Paul Casey in the Match Play final? Zzzzzzzzzz.
4) Why are VANOC officials making excuses for bus troubles at the 21st Winter Olympic Games? The buses never, ever run smoothly at the Olympics. Ever.
Of the nine Olympics I’ve covered, the only one I enjoyed was Salt Lake City because I had a rental car and there were places to park at the events. If you expect the buses to run properly, you have no idea what you’re involved with and you’re whining about something that will never change.
5) Just in case you’ve forgotten, hockey fans, the NHL trade deadline is March 3.
Maybe the Leafs will make enough deals to finish .500. Or not