Sports are only “real sports” if the ancient Greeks invented them, and blacks now dominate them?

“Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them … Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won … So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin.”

That was golf-loving, NBC-scorned Bryant Gumbel, out in the television wilderness on HBO, doing his best to seem hip (hop) by dissing the Winter Olympics. No doubt his spiteful intent was to sabotage NBC’s ratings (they have exclusive rights to cover the games) as payback for firing him from the TODAY Show – on the eve of the games two weeks ago.

But these words alone should convey adequately enough what a pompous, hypocritical smart-ass Gumbel is, and why NBC was probably right to get rid of him.

NOTE: I enjoyed every second of the games I managed to watch and found the real (mostly white) athletes participating in “real sports” to be nothing short of extraordinary!