Game on...

Well, what's bigger than the Olympic Games? Nothing. However, the start of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, at least to the TV audience of the United States was a bummer because, in order to maximize their TV ads money, NBC decided to delay the telecast of the Olympic opening ceremony by 12 hours in order to show it during primetime. So, it's all about the money. What's next? Breaking news only available during primetime?

The opening ceremony was the greatest ever. No doubt about it. However, I found it to be a little overkill. In my opinion, it was too much, too condensed. It was a great effort to showcase everything, from Chinese culture, to Chinese history and more in a short 3-4 hours. The ceremony did show the world one thing, number counts. The sheer number of performers was mind-boggling.

So, over the last 3 days, a lot of my time was spent in front of the TV, at least, with the TV turned to the Olympic channels, even when I was not watching. Also, preseason NFL started last week. And, just today, the Community Shield of EPL was played. So, all the sports games are coming back as well.

By the end of the month, College Football will be back as well, and it'll be all eyes on how Rich Rodriguez will do as the expensive new head coach leads the Michigan Wolverines into unknown territory. Better don't let me down. :)

Also, my colleagues and I decided to give trivia a try, so, every Tuesday, 6 of us will be at a local bar, 'competing' against other teams in answering random questions. Last week was our first time joining the trivia, and we did rather well. We did better than we expected, finishing third to last in field of 10 teams. Hopefully, we will do better this week.