I Can’t Believe I Missed The Olympics August 15, 2008
It’s been such a disappointment for me. I had fully intended to be in the Beijing Olympics, probably as a gymnast, but 2008 just crept up on me and before you know it, the Olympics are in full swing and I never got a chance to practice or anything.
But I’ve decided to change gears and concentrate on the London Olympics four years from now. This will give me time to train, and find a new sport because my wife and friends finally convinced me that overweight people over fifty aren’t usually gymnasts.
But Archery, now that’s sport! And I noticed in the paper a little story about Canadian archer Jay Lyon, who says, “I’m not much of an athlete. I eat a lot of McDonald’s, and I’m probably overweight.”
But I’m an athlete. I was a smallish yet shifty right winger for Byer’s Bulldozers Bantam hockey team, for goodness sakes. And I don’t care much for McDonald’s.
However, I like beer and sitting in a chair.
Watch for me in London four years from now. I’ll be the one with the bow and arrow and several beer in the quiver.
Does it have to be in the summer Olympics? What about curling in the winter? That would be a good one.
Curling would be fine except you have to bend over.
and thats not a pretty sight!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, how about horse jumping? Ian Miller has done like 9 Olympics now. He’s 60-something years old, and the horse does all the work.
I don’t mind this, but can I wear a cowboy hat instead of the other thing?