Last week I roomed with former Navy Seal, Actor, Model and Personal Fitness Trainer Cliff Parks.
He’d rather watch a Lakers NBA game on TV (without Kobe) than the Winter Olympics. When I asked Cliff what goofy Olympic sport was the “least cool” his answer was definitive … CURLING.
What! … Who else thinks chick magnet Olympic Champion Kevin Martin isn’t cool?
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And what about the Norwegian fashion statement. A highlight of the Games. Their pants Facebook page has hundreds of thousands of fans.
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Cliff simply doesn’t understand curling. The Onion explains it:
… DOYLESTOWN, PA—After three hours of watching Canada take on Denmark in women’s curling Friday, regulars at the Cargo Grill in suburban Pennsylvania felt they had the rules and traditions of the sport sufficiently sussed out. “We basically think it’s like horseshoes but with ice,” bar patron Jim Comito said of the 500-year old sport. “The middle part of the bull’s-eye thing is worth two points unless they both get their pot-looking thing in the middle. Tommy said they use the brooms to clear little ice particles out of the way, but I still think it’s a static electricity thing.” By the tenth end, the entire bar felt they had enough information at their disposal to chant “Curl! Curl! Curl!” at the television.
Curling not cool … Gosh golly, Cliff. Get with the 19th century!
Rick McCharles 
The least cool? I don’t think so! How can you not be ‘cool” when you play on ice?
The cretins who think curling isn’t cool just don’t get it… Curling “rocks” the “house!” It simply “sweeps” the other sports away in terms of raw nerve, cool pants, and the fact that it looks like a sport that every-man can jump off the couch and do (alright, some of the Olympians DO put down their beers, doritos and get up off the couch and compete, but some, as the uber-charismatic Kevin Martin (he just MIGHT look better if he shaved the fringe off, but that’s just me) are workout fiends.
As a life-long competitive curler, curling is a blast: it’s a social, exciting, addicitive team sport where after-match “celebrations” feature heavily in the enjoyment.
Other advantages:
~ You hardly sweat, so you can head to the bar quicker
~ Your brooms can double by helping shovel the snow off your car after
~ Even us old guys can compete – and compete well – at the highest level – Old age and experience will often beat youth and skill, and now that I’m in the “experienced” age group, vs. the young and skilled group, I know know why the old guys used to like beating us so much when I was younger.
~ What other Olympic sport has “stoned” as a main conversation piece?
The young nay-sayers might say it’s uncool, but if that was the case, why is it one of the top Olympic draws on TV and in person? And, most important, if it was uncool, would Canadians play it? I mean, hey, there aren’t many cooler countries in the world, are there, eh?
(And, for the intrepid folks in PA, the “button” (the little circle in the middle) is still only worth one point.)
Let’s take Cliff curling next time we have the chance.