AMAZING RACE – 2/19/12

    

We’re back! Seems like there wasn’t that much time between seasons this time, which is good. The show starts us off in Wine Country, California. We’re subjected to looking at all the racers dressed up in those ultra cool bike racing outfits. Apparently, Wine Country is the favorite spot for “Cycling enthusiasts.” I know I’m generally a cynical, scrooge type person, but does anyone else feel like opening your car door when you pass these people on the road? I always imagine my car door flying open and sending these people flying off the side of the road at 100 miles per hour. A couple flips, maybe a tree crash? It just seems I always get stuck behind a gaggle of these geeks on a single lane road and there are just enough cars coming from the other direction that I am forced to do 15 miles an hour behind them for miles. Share the road? Nope. Not me.

Anyway, this season’s group doesn’t seem to disappoint. Here they are:

1. Dave & … Continue reading

February 20th, 2012 | 10 Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

AMAZING RACE FINALE – 12/11/11

    

Hello everyone, I can’t believe we’re already at the finale! I also still can’t believe our snowboarders, certainly who seemed like the frontrunners to win, were eliminated on last Sunday’s show. I read their exit interview, which showed what a class act these two are. There were no hard feelings from either of them, though the taxi driver collaboration was not addressed. I checked out some of the comments that readers were making after the exit interview. It looks like a huge amount of viewers also believed that the fact that the other teams directed their taxi drivers to the wrong location yet were miraculously driven to the pit stop anyway was pretty unfair to the snowboarders. But it also seemed that the view on the situation was based on who these readers wanted to win—if they were Marcus/Amani, Jeremy/Sandy or Ernie/Cindy fans, they took an “All’s fair…” attitude. Likewise, if the readers were fans of the snowboarders they were horrified that this all played out without penalties. I must say that my kneejerk reaction … Continue reading

December 12th, 2011 | 2 Comments | Posted in Amazing Race 19

AMAZING RACE – 12/4/11

    

So, for starters, I just want to say “sorry.” If you feel like my column has blown recently, you are not alone. I think so too. I just feel like there’s not enough of the morons left for me to do much with. I guess these people are pretty good at this, and that’s why they are near the end. And there’s only so many of the “I can’t stand Cindy” “Andy and Tommy sound dumb” and “Marcus = constant NFL flashbacks” comments that I know you’ll be able to stand. It gets really hard to mix it up with so few groups left, and it’s not like you’re actually here to read a blow by blow of what happened on the show. You’ve got eyes and ears. You saw it for yourself. Anyway, bear with me. Only one more week of this for all of us….

We are seriously down to only four teams. I really wish that Ernie and Cindy weren’t one of them, but that’s nothing new. Hey, I guess any team … Continue reading

December 5th, 2011 | 4 Comments | Posted in Amazing Race 19