CAN YOU IMAGINE? It's been sixty-two years since we felt this good. Sixty two years since a really really fat American won a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
Like yours, my eyes moistened last night when I saw the American gold medal winning bobsled team jump into that souped up NASCAR entry called "The Night Train." It was like watching them boys from the Dukes of Hazard jump into the General Lee. Yee haaa, who's gonna beat this lead sled down the hill?!?
No one in the world, as it turned out.
At least the skipper of the Night Train looked like a mechanic -- a short, fat, bald mechanic. Steve Holcomb, driver/skipper of the USA's gold medal winning four-man bobsled team, is one of those guys that spandex wasn't made for. During beefy Team USA's final run Saturday one of the NBC announcers marvelled, " Look how low these athletes get in this sled."
I'm sorry, that was just plain funny.
And to think that the United States has been denied this moment of national joy and accomplishment since 1948.
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