I Have Zero Excitement for the 2022 Winter Olympics

I woke up around 8 this morning and rolled over to check my phone. That is my routine. I usually have a few texts and some Bleacher Report updates. This morning it was pretty much all Bleacher Report. The NBA trade deadline is approaching, the All Star game is coming up, the college and NFL coaching carousel is somehow still happening, no worries, I will be talking about Jim Harbaugh next week, and then there was a ton of winter olympics updates.

I remember this summer being so heavily invested in the summer olympics. It dominated the upstairs TV in my house. I have talked at length on the pod and the site about how much the summer games took over. It was awesome. Unfortunately that did not happen this time around, and I don't really know why. I like snowboarding. I think figure skating is like watching art. I have said in the past how Olympic hockey is the only hockey I would consider watching. There are cool winter games. But I have had the exact opposite reaction. I have zero desire to watch the winter games. I have been so consumed with taking my kids sledding, making hot cocoa, making chili, watching old episodes of "The Simpsons" with my son, doing art work with my daughter and hanging with my wife at night. The kids have had three straight snow days(they could have totally gone to school today by the way). And the idea of watching the winter games has been a non starter. I just do not have the desire or will. I am not even remotely excited to watch. I do not have that oomph that the summer games provided. I would not be shocked if I do not watch any event. My wife and I had a shot last night too. We were flipping the channels and saw curling was on. I always used to watch this sport because it is truly fascinating. But instead of watching a few curls, or whatever they call it, I changed the channel and watched an episode of "The Office". And it was after Steve Carrell had left. That sentence speaks volumes to me.

I have been thinking about why I am so reluctant to watch all day today, and I think I may have a few answers. For one, it is so cold and snowy in Saint Louis that I am sick and tired of looking at snow. This has nothing to do with the games, but the idea of watching people do stuff in the snow, after it has dumped snow all over us, I just do not want to deal with it. I also think that, since the summer games were pushed a year due to the pandemic, the summer games were so much more abnormal. These winter games are going on as scheduled. Sure they are not allowing any fans, but I have seen enough sporting events in the past two days with no fans to know what that feels like now. The fact that this is happening when it is supposed to just makes me feel less inclined to watch. There are also less sports that I truly care about. There is no basketball in the winter games. There is no football in any Olympic games. There is no baseball. I like to watch ping pong, and none of that is going on now. I love track and field events. They are nonexistent. If I really look at any similarities between the two, snowboarding is kind of like skateboarding, and speed skating is as close to a track event as we will get. And unfortunately, for me, those 2 are not nearly as exciting as skateboarding and track events. I may end up checking out some figure skating, for the art, and hockey, just because, but I wouldn't count on it.

I, for some reason, just do not have it in me to care about the winter games. I wish that were not the case. But when I woke up this morning and saw that the winter olympics had started, it was met with a yawn. And that bummed me out.

Ty

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