This is one of those subjects where every time I bring it up somebody calls me grandpa and tells me I'm just not with the new, hip sports; to which I call shenanigans!
Then I have to unleash the dark secret nobody talks about. The first X Games was in 1995 when I was the ripe old age of 15. I've seen em all baby and let me tell you, they've pretty much sucked the entire time. Sure the first couple were pretty cool since it was just going mainstream and the tricks were evolving fast. For quite a while now, all the stunts look just about the same. Can X stoner do a 970 a 1020 or a 1462? Who cares, it's just a guy spinning on four dollars of particle board with wheels. The BMX thing seems to me to be a contest to see who can land the first double backflip, which brings us to a bigger problem; it's not sports, it's a judged competition.
Hmmm, lets see. Competitors competing against themselves, doing tricks that are all very similar to most people that relies on a point based judging system. Hmmmm.
Congratulations X games you've become summer ice skating for dudes. Stop wasting valuable airtime on this nonsense, LeBron coverage, Favre coverage or anything having to do with Colin Cowherd. Good god, that Sports Nation show is a debacle. More canned laughter and faked excitement since the final season of Perfect Strangers.
If the NFL, MLB and NHL can find programming for 24 straight hours, every single day, you can find something better to do with your airtime than glorify D students and Brazilians whose brains have been pickled by too much ocean water and bong loads.
Tony Hawk is like 50 years old now, let's put this baby to rest for good.
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Thank god somebody said it !! I know there are a lot of stoners that like it but do we have to act like it's a sport ? I can get behind a Logging competition way more than the X games. At least those are timed competitions and there are saws.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore the worst part about the X-Games are the X-treme announcers. Wildly throwing around the names of tricks and moves like somebody even gives a shit. If they did the whole 2 weeks with nothing more than a giant wicked-ometer it would be an improvement.