Monday, August 18, 2008

Olympics

I was watching the women's 8 -(wo)man rowing competition. I've watched the other rowing races and I noticed that the 8-person ones are the only ones that have a person in the front (or is it the back, they go backwards so it's confusing) shouting out the stroke cadence to keep everyone in rhythm. Which is how that works, everyone one on the team rowing int he water at the same time. For some reason when i saw that it made me laugh, I was like oh crap they actually have a person doing that. I thought that was just in the movies. Lynn does this competitively, so she may be the only one to find this funny, but I would totally do that. You would know which boat I was on too. "Oh, which boat is Richard on. Oh, he's the one with the Viking hat on beating the giant drum."

Come on! If you saw a boat with some jackass in full Viking horns (which, by all historical accounts they didn't actually wear) beating on a drum, you'd laugh your ass off and you would watch every race that boat was in.

Someone needs to hire me to come up with things like this. Like for Arena football; played in hockey arenas on carpet. So, like in hockey when they hit the ice with the Zamboni between periods, come out between quarters in Arena football games with a riding vacuum cleaner. Get it sponsored by Hoover or something, all stickered up NASCAR style. Good times.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK I absolutely just laughed my arss off just thinking about the Viking hat. You're right though - it would totally kick arss (I'm being kid friendly).

About the vacuum thingy, I totally had the same idea when I first watched an arena game. Great minds think alike.

I say let's market it!

8:31 PM, August 18, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shouldn't you be using this time to put together a suitable NMT for someone's BIRTHDAY I know?

9:04 PM, August 18, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

not to squash your independent spirit or anything, but are you thinking that the olympics lack sufficient marketing? because, um....

2:30 PM, August 19, 2008  

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