Aug 05, 2006 11:23
Am I the only one who not only doesn't care about the X-Games but is a bit pissed off that it's on every time I turn around. Seriously, it seems like the X-Games are on more often than Law & Order. Between Summer X-Games and Winter X-Games you just get so sick of this marginalized sport. Say nothing of ESPN's desperate attempt to over-hype the competition and questionable strategy rules. Between the Dew Action Sport's Tour, Gravity Games, and the X-Games I get so oversaturated with shitty "Action Sports" that are little more than professional wrestling meets Takeshi's Castle.
Hold the X-Games Olympic style. Every 4 years and you could develop a prestige where you wouldn't have mediocre "atheletes" no one has ever heard of who have 634 Gold medals. Hold it in the off even year for the olympics. If it's a winter olympic year, hold a summer X-games and vice versa. That way you wouldn't have winters like we did last year where the x-games were held and half of the best people didn't show up because the Olympics were in a week and a half.
It also isn't going to help that ESPN is going to replay the X-Games here for about a month after they finish. It's not the Olympics! It's not the World Cup! It's not even the World Baseball Clasic or the Pan-Am games. It's a fruity little competition where all the "non-conformists" come together at the same time, doing the same thing, wearing the same thing, and try and stick it to the man by making him a lot of money. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!