Well, it's been a month since the Olympics started, and I for one....what? You say it's only been a week? That cannot be! It certainly SEEMS like a month. In fact, it seems like a great deal longer than a month. The opening ceremonies themselves seemed to take at least two days all by themselves. But, Okay.If you say it's only been a week, and it's only going to be two weeks altogether, then I stand corrected. However, it's not all my fault that I got it wrong. Some of the blame for that impression goes to NBC,and their relentless, unending, minute by minute coverage of every slide down the slopes and the constant yammering that goes on.I don't have to be told when a snowboarder is "hot dogging", I can see it perfectly well by myself! If I even bother to watch it at all, I don't need to be told what I am watching! The reporting that goes on that irritates me the most, however, is in the figure skating, and the ice dancing.Instead of allowing those of us watching by television to enjoy the music and really get into the mood of the performance, they just keep right on talking over the music, and I get to the point I just want to yell, "SHUT UP!" Somebody should tell these people, we don't care what was wrong with that jump, or that move, there's plenty of time to yak about the performance during the scoring! When there is beautiful music playing, shut up and let us hear it! I mean, it's bad enough that they are pre-empting Jeopardy and all of our regular prime-time shows to watch idiots falling off of mountains,and cracking their knees on ice, but then to bombard us with their unrelenting talk at all the most inconvenient times is really too much!
All things considered, I shall be eternally grateful when this trial is over,and programing can go back to normal.I am so sick of the Olympics, I could just chew nails, so by and large, I have pretty much just turned off the local NBC coverage, in favor of other channels, or watch movies, or just turned the television off altogether.Because, let's face it folks,it never gets any better, it only gets worse!
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