Speed Curling
April 8th, 2011 by Head Scratcher
A friend of mine is involved in curling. We were watching Canada play Norway at the 2011 Ford World Men's Championship (Canada lost to Norway, but are up 10 to 1 - woo hoo!) While discussing it - and curling in
general - I thought, I can appreciate the skill and strategy required in curling, but it is a bit, um, "slow" to watch; there has to be a way to increase interest in curling as a spectactor sport. Hmmm...
How about just two small changes:
- increase the number of players per team from 4 to 5;
- each team has to deliver their rock on or before the rock the opposing team has just delivered gets to the halfway point on the sheet.
Maybe call it "speed curling." Now that's a sport I'd pay to watch!
Comments
Some people will pay to watch
Some people will pay to watch just about anything! Now I think that Formula One racing's top speed should be no more than 90km, this would save on the tires and make for a longer race so you can get in a really GOOD nap! lol
90km in F1. Hmmm. I was
90km in F1. Hmmm. I was talking about F1 to a friend the other day, and was thinking the FIA should remove all rules except 5: 1) car has to fit inside a theoretical box; 2) max engine displacement; 3) no forms of intake boosting allowed; 4) maximum intake cross section; and 5) the safety bits that tend to prevent drivers from dying. Anything else goes: moveable aero bits; 16 - 20? - cylinder engines; any size wheel/tires; no RPM limits (I'm looking forward to seeing these engines doing 30K!) If this happened, I doubt I'd be napping watching F1 any more. Vroom! Vroom!
Hey, when are you going to
Hey, when are you going to write more articles for me to badger you??
Well, I'll likely leave the
Well, I'll likely leave the speed curling stuff - as intriguing as that is - alone... for now. Next up? Not quite sure yet, but likely be some stereotyping-like material. :-)