About Last Night

Pretty spectacular Opening Ceremony last night. The best ever? Probably. In fact, the awesome spectacle provided by the Chicoms and the literally, cast of (ten)thousands reminded us of the poster below from the motivational wizards at Despair.com



It was great to see Jim Lampley back in the booth for NBC. Some questionable personal behavior and wacko political views aside, he has always been, in our mind, one of the top commentators in the business and his fill-in work on Rome’s radio show has always been top-notch. One of our earliest memories of Lamps was him getting tossled-about by jubilant fans outside a bar in Lake Placid in the wake of the mens’ hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice” in the ’80 Olympics. Good stuff.

Matt Lauer on China’s massive and concerted push to win medals at these games which he likened to the programs of the Cold War-era Eastern Bloc nations… “but just the good parts.” And those would’ve been…?

And nice to see Lauer isn’t going with any ridiculous looking hair piece or weave for his obviously thinning hair. Hey Matt, just be done with it both figuratively and literally and order-up a “No. 1” next time you're at the barber... err, stylist. Works for us. And keep rockin’.

China’s program to collect all those medals is something called “Project 119” which as far as we can tell is a push to medal in sports no one cares about.

We’re locked-in for this evening which will be heavy on the swimming and which because of the time change, we aren’t quite sure that what we’ll be watching is live, tape delay from yesterday, earlier today….. The Nagano Winter Games in ’98 were dead to us because of this… hope our personal time change maladjustment doesn’t do the same to these Games.