Congrats to our hockey team, and the rest of our athletes on a great winter olympics! Cheers!

Mark

 

Put-r-ther It was a good game. Cheers to all the teams it was great Hockey!!

 

Cheers and Congratulations from the 24th floor Lima, Peru!

 

I think pretty much all of Canada was up early to watch this!! Great hockey game - Sweden never really had much offense and Canada's defense was awesome. Feeling pretty proud of all of Canada right now!

 

I am up at that time most days on the Rig anyways so it was not an inconvenience. If you are not an early riser don't work here.


Way to go Team Canada with the gold & back to back shutouts when it mattered.

 

Up at 3:30 to make coffee for 4:00 AM game time and lovin it. I truly believe that was the best talent I've ever seen (or will likely see for awhile) on the ice. Congrats to all the athletes. I wonder if we'll see NHL'ers in S.Korea for 2018?

 

Team Canada's defense was unreal!

 

congratulations form eastern shore of MD.
well done, enjoy!

 

Congrats to Canada, both the men and the woman.

 

That was the first game of the Olympics I actually watched and am I glad I did.

Gold in both hockey series and both curling series!

GO CANADA GO!

 

It will be hard to watch the NHL after the last two games that team Canada played.
Cognates to all the country's and athletes they put on a great show.
Curling has to go from the Olympics, I look at all the other disciples, there is risk and a real price to compete. Injury is not far off in any other sport at the Olympics. The only risk a curler has is a fat *** and large gut from eating to many Tim Horton donuts.

 

I hate to break this to you ... curling at the olympics actually racked up as high injury percentages as any sport. The lowest ... biathalon. Who'd have thought sliding on the ice with a broom was more dangerous than racing on skis with a rifle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...speed-skaters/

 

Seriously, you want to go there? I'm a curler and I find your comments incredibly rude, baseless, and really insulting. You obviously haven't been around the sport of curling much or you'd know that what you said was plain simple BS. Curling requires a large degree of concentration and skill, as well as physical fitness. Why don't you go to a curling rink and try to do what we do? Bet you'd end up flat on your *** and probably seriously hurt since you don't have any of the required skills and disciplines (not disciples BTW) Sure seems easy for you who don't curl to be critics of something you obviously know nothing about.

 

You must be thinking of curling from the 1980s. Try to stay current or you risk making yourself look foolish. Look at the teams that won medals; they are all well conditioned athletes. I am not a curler & only a casual fan but even I am aware of this trend.

 

….And to lighten the mood a bit did you see the pictures of the Russian female curling team?????
I'm not a curling fan either but do appreciate what it takes to play it!

Mark

 

Well tonight the Leafs start up their season again, so Phil Kessel can explain to the rest of the players how it feels to loose at this level.
Great game for both teams!! Ladies and Mens!!!

 

Just about all the women's teams have their share of good looking women. Even the ones who didn't make it to the Olympics. Their ability is what's more impressive. Thanks Mark.

 

If curling were a judged Olympic sport/ not the past time that it is they would have to give the Russian woman the Gold medal on forum and artistic impression.

 

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, curing is big out East not so much out West. I look at curling much like bowling, crocket, lawn bowling, lawn darts, horse shoes, botchy all require skill. They are not a true sport but are more of a past time . To think a skating Gold is worth what a curling gold is just plain wrong.
In sport there is a price you pay every time you play at a high level, I grew up playing hockey, from bantam A on up there was a price to pay every time you stepped on the ice. One good thing sports taught me was to suck it up and play/live with pain this has been a good life skill to have . If curling past timers are getting hurt it is because they are not true athletes! I could see them getting hurt from Hot coffee, tea, apple cider, hot chocolate , I would feel bad if I had to go to the trainer and tell them that I got hurt sweeping while curling. Curling is one of those activities that is good for retired people low impact and very social.

 

This is about the point where my dad would ask me what my shoes were made of ... since I was working so hard to get the second foot in my mouth.

 

Your apology is so lame, you're not sorry about anything or you wouldn't still be playing your antagonism card. I played hockey too when I was younger, I also played soccer, basketball, baseball, football, skied competitively, rock climbed, ice climbed, back country ski toured extensively etc. Your point is lost on me, I incurred risk and expense for the sake of all my sports and found unique challenges in all of them. I also encourage others and promote it - can you say the same??? Why don't you just suck it up and admit that there are different levels of participation in EVERY sport and equal risks that go with it.

You obviously have a hate on for curling (you're not willing to even admit is a sport) that's played from coast to coast across Canada. If I ever have the chance to meet you I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is. And if you fall and hurt yourself, I will follow your advice and not offer anything but insults about your lack of athletic ability and how much beer or donuts you must have eaten to incur the hurt.

Yes I bet CURING is big out East, but I bet the medical profession would be insulted to hear your comment. BTW, you're wrong CURLING is big all across Canada but there's a larger population base in the East than there is out West. Why don't you drop into one of the many BC curling facilities and tell them how lame they are?? I think the Brad Jacobs rink would make mincemeat out of your perceptions. Just that peeps like you who don't know what they're talking about try to bash something they don't understand. Move along.

 

Sometimes it is better to be silent & thought a fool rather than to speak & to prove it. This is what you just did.


I am very disappointed in your posts. You should quite while you are behind.

 

I don't think there is anything else to add as everyone put it pretty bluntly. Maybe find Bernhard a doctor to surgically remove his foot that has so eloquently been wedged in his mouth. I hate the taste of shoe leather, but Bernhard you have made it a meal. Time to quit while your ahead, before you have to taste the poop you stepped in.

 

Allan, do you remember having to eat all that jam so we could jam pail curl?

Empress Strawberry was my fav... Goes good with feet.

 

LOL, Yes I sure do - that and the Empress peanut butter tins too. Yuch on the feet though. In the summer we also used to take those tins and fill them with water and jamb the caps back on. Put em out by the grainery (used to live in the country) and shoot them with my Uncles 30.06. They blew up real good!

Remember salting the table and using the salt/pepper shakers to score points on your bro's goal at the end of the table?? Lots of stuff to remember doing as a kid and growing up.

 

This is not about me, in all the other Olympic sports they risk life and limb in pursuit of a medal and honor for themselves and there country.
There is insane training on and off the field, course, track, rink.
There is weight training and cardio until you drop sessions every day.
Then there are the skills that must be honed all while doing the above.
To think that a medal in any other Olympic sport is on the same level as curling is just plain wrong.

Zero risk zero intense training.
Yes they spend a lot of time at the curling rink practicing but they are hardly breaking a sweet while training.
On a athletic scale they are not even on the same planet as other Olympian's !
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings I'm not joking!
You like curling and think it is a sport I can't see it and feel it is affront to the other Olympic disciplines were there is risk, pain, blood, sweat, broken bones, and potential of being paralyzed, permanent brain damage or even death, involved in there training and participating in there sport.
Were is the athlete pushed to there maximum physical limits in curling?
You can dislike my posts that is your right but it is how I feel about curling it is not worthy of being a Olympic sport no matter how much a part of Canadian culture it is.

 

No point in arguing with you, I believe Dave put it best when he said this:

 

So it's not a sport unless you break a sweat? Hahahahaha ..... on behalf of every non muscle head who's college education didn't involve See Dick and Jane ....hahahahahaha

 

I agree with you Bernhard. My theory has always been that if an overweight middle aged man can do it while smoking and drinking beer AND be better at it than a high school varsity football player it isn't really a sport. A game of skill? Yes but a sport? No.
Golf, bowling, billiards, darts, shuffle board etc. all fall into this category. Yes I participate in a few of these activities but I certainly don't claim to be an athlete by doing so. JMO. Flame away.

 

Only persons doing the flaming are you and your friend.

 

That's funny as Chadman and I don't see eye to eye on many topics
this is not a personal attack on you Allan or a negative comment on Chadman.

There is nothing worse than someone with out there own view point, I have been wrong many times/daily in my points of view its called leaning.
But on this topic of curling I know I'm right there is no risk and there is no max physical training or discipline involved. True Olympic athletes have to watch every thing they put in there body curlers have to only limit the number of donuts to 12 per day during the week and 6 no weekends.

 

Well said I could not have said it better my self, I think I will have to try curling again with my Eastern Canadian friends. This time to increase the level of difficulty beer in hand unlit smoke hanging out of my mouth with shot rock in hand for the win.

 

It's no different than some of the other Olympic sports. For instance, ping pong, ribbon twirling, synchronized diving/ swimming, etc. There are a lot of people that dislike these sports, but lets not criticize those that participate or enjoy it.


Bernhard, your entitled to your opinion and expressed it, however please do not berate at others expense.

 

You should really stop embarrassing yourself in this thread. It is OK to have an opinion but you are WRONG. You are confusing rec-league curling with "professional" curling when it comes to the participants. These folks are athletes. By your way of thinking all the fat over weight rec league hockey players who can't skate thru a 30 second shift are athletes but Team Jacobs & Team Jones members are not.


Go to google images & Google Team Jacobs & Team Jones & tell me which one of those team members are the fat donut eating slob that you are referring too.

Also why do you keep referring to EASTERN curlers. Have you ever spent one moment in small town AB or SK?. There are curling rinks all over the Prairies & some of the best curlers ever come from AB & SK.


Your images of a bear in one hand & a ciggy in the other is a gross misrepresentation of the sport. Stop looking so foolish please.

 

The above sports you mention require a lot more athletic ability than curling. They also require a lot more physical exertion and training.
Your right ping pong, ribbon twirling, and synchronized swimming have to go as well from the summer games.
Synchronized diving can stay for know.

 

Dave
Non of my friends from AB/SK curl only the ones from Eastern Canada.
I have friends that curl they even recognize that it is not so much of a sport, its more of a social activity.
There is more of a price to be paid playing rec hockey at a high level than curling at its Olympic best.
Rec hockey is not worth of the Olympics only the best belong there.

 

Who care's wether your friends from AB & SK curl or not? You obviously have no sense of the game nor the magnitude of persons who play at the rec & competitive levels from coast to coast.


You posts in this thread are showing nothing but ignorance. Ignorance in EVERY meaning of the word. There is no point in any more posts on this from me since your ignorance has rendered you incapable of understanding. I am embarrassed for you.

 

Good plan, oh wait - you have friends in Canada???? That's a shocker based on your narrow minded approach to a Global events. Maybe you should pen some of your vast knowledge of sports and send it to the Olympic organizing committees. I'm sure they will give it the consideration it's due, at the comedy festival.

It just hit me! The more you seem to berate the sport of curling and other Olympic challenges, it strikes me that you're so envious you need to find a way to diminish the ability of the true athletes to justify your own inadequacies. Did you get heat butted into the boards too many times playing hockey?

So by your own admission I'll take this to mean you are 'leaning' to being wrong, again and again and again.... There's a word for people who can't learn from repeatedly making the same mistakes - you figure it out. I think it would also benefit you to spell check your work, or know the rules of proper grammar before posting. It's been my experience that someone who's dogmatically opposed to seeing alternate contributions by others simply won't "lean" no matter what others say. And, FWIW, although you claim this is not a personal attack, you sure do aim it that way at ALL the fine people who are involved in the sport of Curling.

You're not worth spending any more time with on this thread. You've made such a great first impression....

Eric - your call but I think this thread should be closed/locked.

 

I don't want to close the thread as Team Canada deserves the Cudos. I think everyone has expressed their opinion and its time to drop it and move on.