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Day 20 in a series as I move closer to age 50.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I write this I am watching an Olympic event known on “Skeleton”.\u00a0 It looks like Luge with the guy riding on his stomach facing the trip instead of lying on his back looking up at the trip.\u00a0 Either way it looks impressive.<\/p>\n

These fancy sleds go around these ice tracks at speeds I can’t imagine.\u00a0 I just saw some guy crying over a great run that he didn’t see 2 seconds of.\u00a0 Now that is something special.\u00a0 Maybe it was grandpa who drove the kid to practice every day for ten years leading up to the kid’s moment in the sun…or on the ice.\u00a0 Maybe gramps was crying because he is happy it is over and he can go home now and park the car.\u00a0 I hope his boy wins.<\/p>\n

My dear wife, Carrie, and I were also watching some pairs figure skating.\u00a0 How any two of these folks can stay in step or toe or blade like they do so consistently is amazing to me.<\/p>\n

The Olympics are the greatest thing left in sport.\u00a0 I so enjoy the Winter games much more than the Summer games.\u00a0 Skiing.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 I have never been on a pair of skis.\u00a0 I never had to.\u00a0 I had Franz Klammer from Austria.\u00a0 What else did one need?\u00a0 The bobsled?\u00a0 I would get in one of those in heartbeat.\u00a0 The four man one.\u00a0 That looks like fun.\u00a0 Ski jump?\u00a0 Eddie the Eagle from Great Britain is a legend.\u00a0 His movie was more Hollywood that Calgary…but I am glad the story got told.\u00a0 Speed skating?\u00a0 I am guilty of watching this like I watch the first six laps of NASCAR at Talladega.\u00a0 I wait for a good crash.<\/p>\n

I still think back to the 1980 USA Hockey team that beat the Russians.\u00a0 I will revisit a column I wrote about it.\u00a0 That game was played on February 22nd and I will live it over again a week from today.\u00a0 That was truly a Dream Team.<\/p>\n

All this great sport makes me shake my head at the news that FOX TV is joining the NFL Network and ESPN in broadcasting the NFL Draft. Now there is waste of time.\u00a0 In the last twenty years there have been two NFL overall #1 draft picks to win a Super Bowl.\u00a0 These two players have won four of them and they are brothers Peyton and Eli Manning.\u00a0 The big reveal?\u00a0 Whose #1?\u00a0 Tim Couch was. JaMarcus Russell was. Andrew Luck was.\u00a0 You wanna watch that?\u00a0 Go ahead.<\/p>\n

I would rather watch a baseball game on TV and fall asleep.\u00a0 The NFL draft is in April.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I will watch folks fly down a hill, tear up a track of some kind, glide across the ice, and give it their all.\u00a0 You never know when grandpa is going to cry.\u00a0 But you do know they will give it their all every precious second they are there.<\/p>\n

Speaking the Rights…<\/p>\n

Danny Johnson<\/p>\n

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