Now that the Olympics are over, the nation can turn its sports focus back to the sport of cornhole, which is actual thing that aired on ESPN this weekend.
This year’s Olympics had several takeaways:

1.) Tonya Harding is apparently still a thing.
2.) When you look up Pyeongchang on Google maps, it’s fun to see places mentioned on M*A*S*H, like Gimpo and Pocheon, really exist.
3.) Curling is now trendy.

My first boss back at WBAP got me started on curling. He’s a curler, and four years ago, I did a story on the DFW Curling Club’s open house to get people psyched for the Olympics.

The DFW club explained that tradition dictates the winner of the match buys the first round of drinks for the loser. They were trying to show curling is accessible to the every man.

Curling enthusiasts across the country succeeded in making the sport popular. Curling’s become trendy. Maybe a little too trendy. Even Mr. T is getting involved.

​During the gold medal match, I was texting with an associate back home in Ohio, leading to this in-depth analysis when the US scored five points in the 8th end. Never mind it was 2 am [and 3 am in Ohio]. Neither of us had recently arrived home from a bar.

​To combat the trendiness of curling, I propose ​some of us no-good, old fashioned curling purists start “street curling.”

Rival curling gangs would gather in dark alleys, snapping their fingers at each other as they toss stones that have been tagged with graffiti. Curling street-toughs would show up at an opponent’s house in the middle of the night during an ice storm and quietly sweep the steps on the front porch so the other guy slips and falls when he walks out on his way to work.

But the winner of the street curling match would still buy the first round. There are LIMITS to this aggression. I believe that’s in the Geneva Conventions.

The US had a tough Olympics, gang. The curling club did what it could. As did the women’s hockey team. That was another match that played out in the middle of the night. I appreciated the arena playing “Born in the USA” as soon as the National Anthem was finished. Seeing a bunch of hockey players milling around while Bruce Springsteen was playing reminded me of a scene from the movie, Canadian Bacon.

While I’m worried about curling becoming too trendy, Delta is taking steps to make sure the US team embraces its down-home roots. Just like the rest of us, they had to fly home in coach.