every july, i sit in front of the television for two hours every day for about twenty one or twenty two days straight. july is the month of le tour, but most people could care less.
you don't see to many people going nuts over bike racing. i realize that i'm in the minority here. i like it because there is a romanticism to it. it's noble, small groups of guys fighting it out in the mountains and fields of france, germany, belgium, luxembourg (all places i would love to say that i have visited but i haven't). the most important factor is speed, but there's also the mind game, the unseen fake-outs. plus, as a person who rides his bicycle almost every day, i can tell you that these guys are impressive athletes. 175 kilometers a day? more than 200?
i'm not really a sports guy. i don't watch football, baseball, or any of the sorry sports-slash-beer commercials that everyone else i know drools over for how ever many months a year. no thanks. i find all of those big american sports boring and over-rated, the players overpaid prima donnas. i watch snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding videos, and cycling. well, and hockey. but that's a canadian sport, so it doesn't count.
but, naw, bike racing, that's where it's at. there's all that awesome scenery and crazy hills. plus you get the great personalities like phil liggett and paul sherwen. phil's been calling the races since i can remember, and paul sherwen lives in fucking uganda. those two guys are bad ass. i really don't care too much for the american frat boy who pokes his head in to tell us all how lance armstrong is doing. americans always underestimate the intelligence and depth of the average worldly sports viewer. maybe that's why the collective intelligence in this country is falling like so much shit. sports broadcasts. have you seen those things lately? i'm waiting for the lever with the food pellets or the electrodes that stimulate the endorphine glands or whatever.
that's the ticket. we would ALL be smarter if we watched cycling. let's go people.
Posted by snackfight at July 8, 2002 07:06 PM