It's time once again for the quadrennial jokefest that ensues whenever someone witnesses for the first time (or, as is often the case, for the first time since the last Winter Olympics) the sport of curling. I can't imagine that members of the USA curling team ever get tired of their sport being a punchline - would you get tired of defending the legitimacy of whatever mindblowingly dull endeavor *you* participate in?
Here is a nicely animated website that explains the basics of curling. I still don't get it, but I don't understand the "offsides" rule in hockey, either.
Still, I'd rather watch three hours of a person pushing a stone down the ice and two people scrubbing the ice furiously in front of it than 10 minutes of the athletic endeavor that has somehow snuck its way into the Winter Games - snowboarding. Even though I wish the American team well - all of its members - I'd really prefer that the X Games crowd roll another number for the road and go back to Berkeley. But then again, that's probably just the old fogey in me.
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