Cornell Women - Olympic Hockey

[imafrshmn]

The jingoism is the worst part of the Olympic coverage.  I wish our local Spanish affiliate was broadcasting the games since then we'd have the ambient sounds without the idiocy of the commentary.

+1

[TimV]

Maybe we're quibbling about definitions here-  according to dictionary.com

jin·go  [jing-goh]
noun, plural jin·goes.  

1. a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinist.

It's NOT just excessive rooting and promotion of your favorite team - of which I am guilty on a regular basis. And I'm prepared to do it again in about 20 minutes. ::cheer::

Everybody does it at these events, Olympics, World Cup, etc etc.  The pregame scenes this morning showed an awful lot of red, white and blue.  Most of it was on Russians.  I was happy to see it.  The energy in the rink was fabulous.

[Beeeej]

NBC announcers in many sports are blatant homers. I wanted to across the ocean and slap whoever was in the booth rooting on Team USA in skeleton. Plus she was another blabbermouth, believes more words are better words, was somehow upset at the sneaky, as that the words, Russian slider based on her start position. Her husband, boyfriend, partner misses her but he's getting two quiet weeks at home.

Well, there's thirty seconds I'm never getting back.

[ugarte]

JINGOISM JINGOISM JINGOISM

You took the time to post THIS?

Seriously.  It's a minor irritation to everyone except you.::rolleyes::

I'm more worked up over our hockey team's inability to finish.

It did take a lot of time, since I actually use a linotype machine to enter my posts and have it rigged to transmit via the internet. It was quite a bitch to edit this, let me tell you.

You really have to know the posters here better. I am PRO-sports-jingoism. I posted this strictly to annoy Trotsky. And if you think an American sports network is going to have more than the slimmest pretense of objectivity towards American athletes you are completely, incurably, helplessly insane.

[ugarte]

she was another blabbermouth, believes more words are better words

Irony ... 3. ... b :  incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

[TimV]

Ohhhhhhhhhh... why didn't you say so?   How can I help?

[Trotsky]

I posted this strictly to annoy Trotsky.

He likes me!  He likes me!!!

[RichH]

Hoping #s 5, 6, 8, and 19 all have a great game. But pulling for Team USA.

https://twitter.com/RJohnst16/status/436376857400074240

[Trotsky]

May the better country win.

[marty]

Charlie Chaplinesque flicker of the online broadcast makes me pine for the Redcast of old.

I'm thinking the Russians will claim they invented Redcast after today. (I'm showing my age.)

[ugarte]

May the better country win.

Adorably ambiguous.

[BMac]

JENNER!

[Trotsky]

Well now.  That was an interesting 5 minutes.

[Jim Hyla]

Those are the best women's refs in the world? Wow!

[Dafatone]

Those are the best women's refs in the world? Wow!

Well, you know how it is.  If you make a call in OT, you have to make a call the other way too on something you've let go all game.  It's in the rulebook.