NBC brought back it's "Green is Universal" campaign for this years Winter Olympics coverage. They will be broadcasting without using electricity or lights in an effort to protect mother Earth from the evils of global warming. While I am not able to locate a single source on the interweb that corroborates this story, it is the only plausible situation because I can't find a single person that has witnessed any of competitions on television.
I have no idea how our curling team is doing and this troubles me. I'm just not myself unless I can see all 8 heats of the biathlon competition because it combines two of the most enjoyable things one can do with his/her pants on, cross-country skiing and shooting (who would have guessed that Canadia had red-necks too, because who else would come up with this "sport").
I heard there is a competition where a person gets on a sled and goes down an ice track on their belly and it's called skeleton...sounds like a hoot (not to be confused with a sport where they slide down on their back on a sled, or the one with multiple bodies on their butts in a sled). With games like these I'm wondering why NBC chose to not air them on TV? It seems that by transporting these images through the air millions of people would be able to enjoy them in the privacy of their home.
I know that global warming is real now because there is no snow at the winter Olympics so I applaud the networks efforts to save the games but, I would love it if they could have found a happy median between awareness and, um, their job.
Carrier pigeons were sent to the network for comment but I think the contestants of "The Biggest Loser" ate them all, which is very "un-green" of the network...unless they ate them raw, which would at least be in the same vein of what the network is going for.
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