Reid About It

I'm going to go ahead and post this to beat Friday's rush. I do not care in the slightest if Chicago gets the Olympics.

(Why do you hate America, Reid?)

It's not any patriotic problem, I assure you. I don't care if Oprah, President Obama, Jim Belushi, and the ghost of Mike Royko band together to make Chicago seem like the Garden of Eden.

I just don't care about the Olympics.

Every couple of years, NBC makes a big deal out of the Olympics and dedicates 1687 hours of coverage to the games. Too much. Too too much.

Each Olympics has one big event that everybody loves, and that's all we remember. Everybody loves the gymnastics, for example. How about canoeing? Or handball? Anyone going to put together a betting pool for the badminton tournament?

The Olympics are completely overrated. It's like the if the Academy Awards only gave out Best Picture, and then two straight weeks of the technical awards.