Wall Street trading is often described as a blood sport. But inside the great investment houses, the sport of the moment is, of all things, curling — that oddball of the Olympics that is sort of like shuffleboard on ice.
I don’t think “of all things” is really all that representational. Curling is one of the few Olympics sports you can actually follow along to with your head buried in work off and on. Baseball is America’s Game because it’s slow enough for everyone to understand on some level. Curling is the same way. I am in awe at the speed of some of the Winter Games, but I barely have an idea of why one figure skater gets a higher score than another (unless one of the two skaters falls down or at least bobbles).
Curling is on TV quite often in Canada. I thought I heard it got something like 10-20 hours weekly, on average. If it got that kind of coverage in the US, we’d probably have a greater appetite for it (other than our brief indulgence every four years).
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