Thursday Night Football and the Olympics

I sit here watching the Galaxy play Chivas USA, and I smile as Donavan gets a good feed and sinks a goal. I've just started watching soccer, or as the world calls it football, this year and I really like it. The players seem to have a pride in their sport that you see when you watch college football (pigskin). I like the Galaxy but choose the Red Bull in a attempt to drum up some rivalry at work. I still don't have the rules down yet, like when a goally can touch the ball with his hands. Thats another story. Galaxy is storming the goal in the first 15 minutes. No manager, he got fired. No GM, he got fired. This is the best I've seen them play this year.

Sunday night I watched along with the rest of the world via tape delay the US Mens Relay 4 X 100 team tear France a new one. Shut them up and I love shutting cockiness down. Sometimes having self assurance is one thing but France or Bernard accepted the gold metal before the race. I will have to give France respect though. Being a dumb redneck that the only thing I know about swimming is chasing down water skis after being so drunk I couldn't ski, I and millions of Americans were insulted to hear Bernard's brash statement, but after hearing the announcers give France the goal before the race I had to humble myself. Then Jason Lezak just overtook Bernard. Anyway, sorry to go on about stuff that the world already knows. Alain Bernard redeemed himself later in the men's 100-meter freestyle. Lezak won the bronze.

NBC's Olympic coverage would get an 'A' if I lived back east, but since I live on the left coast, they get a 'D'. Since when does California not rate getting life coverage of the Olympics. NBC sucks for that alone. Network TV sucks in California anyway. If they had it together they would start their tape delayed 'Prime Time' at 7:00 instead of 8:00.

Time Warner got it together here in the desert by adding USA to their HD lineup. Olympic coverage is on up to 6 HD channels now. The Friday night opening ceremony was unreal. Who cares if the footprints were fake. I'm not a pro at picking out CG stuff like that, but anybody could tell that was fake. Fireworks are boring on TV anyway. The Millie Vanillie part sucked though. I guess China felt the world had to see a pretty little girl would be the only way Euro/Americans would watch and shafted a little bucktoothed girl from being on TV. Whoever made that decision should spend the rest of their working life manning a gun station in the freezing pacific someplace. That little girl could sing!

Enough rambling for tonight.

Afternote. The Galaxy came back in stoppage time and tied the game at 2-2. Beckham is awesome. It's not that he outplays everybody but it is that he does everything so effortlessly.