The Olympics--or--Gynmasts like Gatorade

Everyone knows that The Olympics isn't about the sports anymore, right? Well, some people don't because I was talking to some people about that last night, and they said, "I love the Olympics and when I grow all up I want to BE The Olympics!" So, I said, by the time you are grown, the olympics will be every 6 mos and will be syndicated the other 3 months. So, the question is, what is happening to sports? Or perhaps the broader question is, why don't sports interest anyone anymore and finally, why does every "amateur athelete" have a heart-wrenching backstory?

First of all, it is my opinion that playing sports, almost any sport, is great great fun. Swimming, tennis, soccer, american football, badminton, baseball, they are all fun to play. So why is it, that something that is completely active, be at all fun when you are sitting on a couch in front of a tv, watching said sport? It doesn't make sense to me. Actually, I enjoy watching sports, but only for several minutes at a time, or until the imbecile announcers force me to change the channel to protect my intellect.

Second of all, sports don't interest people the same way they used to. My opinion is that the athletes of a given sport have all but slung their own corpses into the briney deep, Davey Jone's Locker. I think we, and most importantly, I am tired of pedestallated, transcendant, above the law athletes.

And finally, why does every amateur athlete have a heart-wrenching backstory? This is simple. But we will use an analogy. This question can be answered with another question: Why was Jimmy Falon hired on to SNL? The answers to both of these questions can be answered with this simple question: What is the least populated, but growing demographic of both of these activities? The answer to this question, and the answers to the preceeding questions as well as the originating answer to the question of the first answer can be questioned by asking yourself this question: NBC is obviously trying to draw in the female demographic. We know that Jimmy Falon has quit the show, but I'm sure we'll see the same phenomenal success that we saw with the other SNL grads of the past few years. Especially that little guy.