Why NBC commentators are f**cking idiots

So today, Lindsay Jacobellis, snowboarder from the USA made a mistake and fell down right before the finish line, losing the gold medal in the new snowboard cross event. Worse, it was while doing a "showboat" grab at the board that she fell down.

So, she screwed up. Most people would simply leave it at that. Celebrate the successes, and maybe even lament the mistakes of failures. NBC instead chose to make a little featurette that showed the mistake in slow motion over and over, while talking about how "we all say its not about winning medals, but about competing at the olympics, but on some days, it's about not losing medals." Clever. They continued to say that Lindsay Jacobellis (20 years old) said she wasn't "showboating" but "you don't need a degree to see that she wasn't simply snowboarding. She learned the most important lesson: don't count your chickens before they hatch." Then, the commentators proceeded to comment on how if she had just stayed on the straight and narrow, she would have won.

Of course, we all know that this is how competitions are won, by never taking risks. Nope, safety first! Better to practice just 30 minutes a day, and not too hard, just in case you injure yourself. In fact, better not to do any physical activity. We can just sit in suspended animation and live off of glucose drips. Glad we cleared that one up. Thanks, NBC!