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But what is really getting to me is how it affects other shows on other channels.

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I fully agree with you. My favourite TV station airs Olympic games from 4.00 pm to 8.30 am. It's really annoying. Fortunately I got my Buffy and Angel dvd boxes, so I have a good substitute to watch.

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When some obscure college basketball game that legitimately nobody really cares about is preempting stuff, I can empathise. But this is the freaking Olympics. Networks show what people want to watch. And while some people in their hermetically-sealed basement environments may not realize that a lot of people are watching the Olympics, the statistics beg to differ

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Because the tastes of the multitude are always correct eh?

And what, pray tell, is so very exciting about the biathalon? Being as I am in a hermetically sealed basement, this eludes me.

I'm not totally against the Olympics. The Summer Olympics, that is. The Winter Games? I've never seen the point to watching Scandanavian sports, unless you happen to be Scandanavian.

Same as I don't expect Non-Americans to enjoy American football...Most of us silly American boys had to play the shit game at some point when we went to school, so I can appreciate the fact that grown men slobber like needy infants at it on Super bowl weekend. I can accept that it's going to ruin a day of programming, like some force of Nature.

If we all got to play Soccer in school, I'll wager that would still be Football to us.

But I have never gone skating or skiing, or for that matter, shot at targets in the snow. You know, because of that sealed in the basement thing. I have certainly never laid ontop of a man dressed in skin tight leotards whilst rocketing down an icy tunnel in a small fiberglass torpedo. (or at least, I think I haven't.)

TANGENT:
Saw a movie about it that had John Candy in it. Fish out of water story, with black guys who don't stand a chance in a world of whites(TM).
It sucked.
I DIGRESS:

I can't imagine people in Kenya getting off too hard on this thing, either.

I'm not knocking the awesome physical abilites of the people competing, mind you.

For me, it's about as interesting as watching a cat puke a hairball. Alien, but nothing spectacular.

Rented "Ski Instructor: Aspen High"

At least it has naked chicks who ALSO ski.

SECOND TANGENT:
I enjoyed one part of the Olympics.
I did like the female speed skaters.
Man, are those body suits tight.
Pump Pump Pump...Gold Medal in World Record Time!

Damn straight.

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Because the tastes of the multitude are always correct eh?

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I'm not totally against the Olympics. The Summer Olympics, that is. The Winter Games? I've never seen the point to watching Scandanavian sports, unless you happen to be Scandanavian.

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Again, this is your opinion. Which is fine. It's just that the suits at NBC disagree, and presumably they have millions of dollars worth of advance market research and a week's worth of Neilsons to tell them that your viewing preferences are in the minority. Not that they're incorrect, because they can't be. But they do know that there doesn't appear to be a statistical basis to your claims that nobody but Scandanavians cares about the Winter Games.

How about that Canada/Czech Rep. game, eh?

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