I’ve actually watched a lot more of the Olympics than I thought I would. I never understood curling until this Olympics, nor really cared to in the past. I guess I thought it was more like shuffle board, but it isn’t quite as simple. For some strange reason I caught myself watching some stones getting thrown around on the ice in Vancouver, and I would’ve never guessed who happened to be in Vancouver as an honorary coach! He is also an avid curling fan. Give up? San Francisco 49ers tight end, Vernon Davis. His presence didn’t speed up the painfully slow paced event, but he joined the booth crew to help announce one of the matches between Switzerland and the USA. Not sure if we won, because I didn’t make it through the grueling 3 hour match, but we were ahead at the time I turned the channel. Vernon went on to say a few interesting things like “I love curling.” “I’ve tried to get teammates to come out and play with me, but they usually just laugh.”
As an honorary coach some people are actually angry at Vernon for not leading the curling team to a better record (USA is 2-7 Men’s and Women’s combined). Really, you want to blame Vernon for not doing well when he didn’t even arrive at the games until yesterday!?! It’s funny that their first two wins happened to come right after Vernon delivered a pre-game speech to inspire them to victory. He even said that the atmosphere last night was like being at a 49ers home game. Really, THAT exciting?!? Or are 49ers games only selling 5,000 seats a game? I wouldn’t blame Vernon for our shortcomings in curling, since he’s NOT even playing. I blame the popularity of the sport within the US. Maybe we need some NFL players on our curling team, so we can take home the gold next time around. I’d definitely watch every match of team Davis, Gore, and Willis! Could you imagine Patrick Willis walking down the ice sweeping huge holes in the ice making those rocks go wherever he wants it to go? I’m sold, sign them up Vernon!
I had to scan youtube for some Vernon curling action. I think it’s safe to say in this clip he looks happier than a pedophile on Halloween. I actually think he looks more passionate about curling than he is about football! We could have another Bo Jackson on our hands!
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February 21st, 2010 at 7:47 am
chappy
Ooh that’s so inspirational. Another added reminder what I find the Winter Olympics to be completely irrelevant and boring. The analyst and commentators half the time don’t know what the hell they’re talking about much less their knowledge of the various disciplines to begin with. You’ve got one idiot describing Lindsay Vonn as perhaps the greatest female Alpine skier ever ! That asshole obviously hasn’t heard of Anna Marie-Proeh-Moser. And then another talking about Appolo Anton Ohno as being the best US winter athlete ever. What does that say about Eric Heiden’s feat of winning 5 goals at a single Winter Olympics ? NBC and its entire coverage has been a complete joke !
Pardon me while I get back to something more substantive !
Alan Parkins
February 21st, 2010 at 10:04 am
Yeah and she might not even be that much better than Picabo Street that won five medals over a couple Olympics… I agree though a lot of the events I’ve watched, I wonder if the announcers even knew about the event before they got to the games. Sad really, I guess it shows you how crappy NBC is at picking out their commentators. This post was a joke more than anything! I still can’t believe Vernon does curling…
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
chappy 81
Given the financial woes of NBC and the crap that they now have on the network. I’d rather be watching either the English language version of Al Jazeera or the Arabic version for that matter ! That’s how bad NBC’s coverage now actually is.
Thank God they’re not covering the World Cup or I’d have to commit seppuku.
Alan Parkins
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:28 pm
chappy 81
Dropped this piece on the Cardinals and Mark McGwire . As and when you’re ready I’ll look forward to reading your comments.
What Is It That Mark McGwire Is Said To Be Doing For The St Louis Cardinals …………?
Alan Parkins
February 21st, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I can think of a sport in which Vernon Davis’s chiseled body is more useless…except maybe chess!
February 21st, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Oops. I “can’t” think of a sport…
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:13 pm
hilarious…would never have imagined an NFL player who was into curling, much less an American lol
May 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
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September 13th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
[…] in the Castro District a little too much over the offseason and that made them soft, or maybe Vernon Davis is taking to curling more than football… Ok, ok, Vernon was one of the few guys that played well. Seattle played off […]
February 1st, 2011 at 1:13 pm
[…] sweeping and rolling. I still want to see him curling live one of these days, and this is still a funny ass PSA from him about curling (I love the […]