Are the Olympic Games Still Must-See TV? | THE ODD COUPLE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- THE ODD COUPLE - Rob Parker & JR Gamble discuss if the Olympics are still must-see TV
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It's not that it's no longer must see TV, it's that TV itself is no longer must see for many people.
That and Rob has gotten older. The newer generation is still interested.
Track and field so is the swimming and gymnastics are something to see. I've never seen Woman's basketball
Not with the satanic trans ritual they just showed smh
Yea france is a joke
I love the excellence and the stories - I watch everything on NBC. Wouldn't miss it.
Its bc of Netflix, the Internet, and other online distractions Rob
I’m with Rob if the Olympics were only basketball and soccer like he mentioned. To me what’s great about the Olympics, is it’s not the big celebrities. It’s not people getting paid $250 million. It’s real people with larger than life dreams who have one shot to claim glory. While it doesn’t mean much to people like Rob, it means the entire world for those javelin throwers, triathletes, 5k runners, etc. Olympics is our chance to break away from the mainstream sports and celebrate athletes from all walks of life.
Yes, I beat 90 percent of the people on this comment page can't tell you what person is considered best miler in the world today , but to those guys who run the mile or 1600 meters it's a big deal to them , to be the best at anything in World is a big accomplishment .
@@dangreene3895 um track and field isn’t as popular in comparison to the rest of the world. If it wasn’t you wouldn’t have the diamond league or MJs upcoming league. Rob is speaking about another sport he doesn’t know anything about. He needs to stick to baseball since he fails to do his homework. If you look at the American sneaker companies running shoes still are the main sellers and those people watch the 10000, 5000, marathon
@@Daedcicar I was using track and field as a example the sport does not matter, it could be water polo
you're saying you don't appreciate things you can't do = show some respect to the athletes who put their "all" into being the best competitors they can be = the games/players you like, could learn something from these athletes
right.. more americans needs to watch and appreciate other sports and athletes.. so maybe next time we can stop hearing 'IN ALL OF SPORTS" comment referring to only american mainstream sports
You guys do this topic with everything aside from the nfl and it's usually the same answer, competition. In your time there was no youtube, social media, netflix, reality tv, video gaming, etc that now days live events have to compete with.
In my youth we didn't even have cable so the Olympics was a big deal to us , plus we had the United States vs Russia aspect to the games that is not as big a deal today as it was then .
I only watch highlights of all sports not just Olympics. To be sincere I lack that long attention span
Women’s gymnastics, swimming, week 2 of track and field ( 100,200, 400, hurdles, relays), and men’s USA basketball. Pretty much it for me
Beach volleyball…:
Hell Yeah! 😂
Brazil always has a really good team
Men of culture maneuvers
Some events are like the 100m sprint, the sprint relays, the Basketball. But there are so many events I wouldn't watch with a free ticket 50km walk anyone????
I just watch the highlights like how I watch short-form NBA highlights for NBA games.
Same. Something isn't the same about it. We used to have Olympic stars. Today it's just another form of reality TV. The only exciting events are track and swim.
@@heartbreak25Y'all the worse
Rob, try something new, talk about something you love.
He loves to hate 😂
I agree. Cars, movies, fishing, etc...
Whatever you go on vacation for.
He loves to hate on Lebron and Brady
He can't. Nobody wants to hear him slurp baseball. EVERYTHING is about sneak diss to lebron. Thumbnail proves it.
Baseball
The real question is, "is the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL" still relevant because these American leagues have become watered down & boring.
Especially the NBA...I'm fine with the NFL changing their rules
I’ve only watched a few Olympic game highlights. Cable cost too much so I’m only paying for Fubo TV once football is back in season. $85 a month to watch professional and college football is expensive
Times are tough so I need to save!
Rob is right. Its not the same
JR Gamble is BLOWING SMOKE. Rob asked him TWICE about something he's looking forward to at the 2024 Olympics and he had to bring up 1984(40 years ago) Mary Lou Retton. FORTY years ago. Not twenty years ago. 40. Embarassing. And the first time Gamble was asked he brought up a sports bet he had on Snoop Dogg. His MAIN reason for watching was because he had a prop bet on a NON-participating athlete.
Well Simon Biles is the real deal theses days mane
I love the Olympics. It’s so exciting and I love seeing how proud everyone is to represent their country.
No way. No how. You have to have Peacock to watch most the Olympic events. I'd rather just wait for the NFL to start.
@@joeschmoe5231 either way you gonna have to pay to watch live tv now
I have Peacock for the Premier League and the French Open so its always been a must have for me.
Peacock like 7 dollars a month and you get a good library and the wwe network. Also, nfl games on nbc including exclusive playoff games. Seems like a great deal to me.
@@universe-ie2mk The more subscribers and deals they have...it will go up and with new contracts
Yep, instead of an event that can let everyone have easy access to bring enjoyment and everyone together, once again have to lock it behind a pay wall with the obsession of monetizing absolutely everything
I tried to watch it this morning i heard a woman commentator i shut it off lmao ☠️💯
Do you guys just hate every sport that isnt nfl? Is that seriously where we're at?
Weird times
I love the Olympics more now than when I was young!!!
Rob is really the best sports talk host in the country. Always interesting, great common sense, great perspective. Not afraid to say what he thinks.
Seriously🙄
There was a fashion runway during the ceremony.. ridiculous
Woke trash
It's in Paris. They just added some local flair to the ceremony.
@mysterion5right... this guy has to be a moron, not to understand the correlation between fashion and Paris 136
Good!
fashion and art is a huge part of frances culture, it should be involved.
I watch ALL events (except Equestrian)... and not like in a patriotic way. I dont care which country wins what. I cant even explain. Its a combination of things. I love sports. I love the history of the olympics. I love the competitiveness. The stories behind the competitors. The underdog stories. And its all balled into this one big event. Its amazing
Unfortunately I am in USA where I have to subscribe streaming. It’s a first for me to miss the entire Olympics.
Olympics is great. I enjoy watching when I can. Best athletes in the world competing against each other. Must see TV.. especially athletics and gymnastics. The basketball has a great storyline this year too.
I still love it. Almost everyone there is doing it for the love of sports and isn't entitled. A lot of these athletes make middle income or low income and have to have another real job to pay their bills. Plus you get to see sports you will never see outside of the Olympics like Judo, water polo, handball and fencing.
I might have watched the women if CC was playing. The men’s team seems pretty lame this time so I’ll pass
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 So you watch a great women’s team because of no CC and also not a star studded men’s team? I wonder why. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
USA! USA!! USA!!!
@@DrPhill96 I watched the WNBA Allstar game and it was waaaay more entertaining that the star studded NBA Allstar game.
@@LargeDude2023 - And? That has WHAT to do with the Olympics? Try to stay focused on the topic.
@@DrPhill96Same sht, different toilet so I’ll pass this time.
@@LargeDude2023 - Congrats on your dirty maggot infested toilet.
it's really hard to catch the sports i like to watch live so i usually watch the highlights. I mainly watch Track and Field and combat sports like Boxing, Taekwondo and Judo. Sometimes i also like to watch gymnastics if im in the mood, and beach volleyball for science.
Shout Out To CBC
Yes it is, it only comes around every 4 years. The basketball players actually take it serious and it’s playoff level intensity.
The time the games are on is also a big thing to consider. People just get an update on their phone.
When the women’s soccer team knelt and a man was nearly allowed to compete in swimming against women --- the end of my Olympic watching.
This year they had drag queens doing the last supper. They got snoop dog as an announcer too. You ain't missing much this year, bro.
The torch🔥....... a peaceful transfer of power💪🏿
The Olympics has lost its luster. For example the American media called Simone Biles a hero bc she said she had a mental breakdown. I saw Kerri Strug stick a perfect vault on one leg. Kerri Strug was heroic not someone who’s a quitter.
MAGA
Yeah same here
@@Adam_Guidry The Olympics wasn’t good in 2021 more so due to the Covid restrictions. I think this Olympics will be pretty good. Biles was already seen as the best at that point anyways and she had gone through that investigation with that creep who got charged for assaulting multiple young people so let’s stop acting like she was messed up for no reason. You wouldn’t say that if it was someone you knew. These are real people not just robots for your entertainment.
This guys pretty good. Get him on the show more!
Rob wanted JR to not like the olympics 😂
The Olympics are a damn joke for that opening 🤢😕😑👎💩
Jr does a great job and he’s smart.
Hell no. Not after the opening
Finding highlights on Olympic events is more difficult than doing so for the NBA. The IOC makes sure that only a select few can broadcast any games or highlights, so other networks aren't as incentivized to hype up the Olympics.
Homie was cooking at the end.
I always watch as much Olympics as possible I don’t know why sports fans wouldn’t be interested
This is classic Rob , "old man fisting a cloud". I'm in every four years for track, swimming, gymnastics. Rob classic classic Rob.
It's the one time every 4 years that we all root for the same team. Watching sports I usually don't care about at all and I'm captivated and rooting just as hard as I do for my hometown teams. Seeing our athletes standing on the podium and our national anthem playing will never get old to me.
NO DEFENSE ON THIS USA TEAM
When the Earthlings compete against the Kligons in the Galactic Olympics, that's when Rob will be excited again. 😆
Usain bolt helped popularize Olympics for sometime. When he retired Olympics lost its popularity
Michael Phelps was far more popular
Sports nationalism may not be as important as enjoying the greatness of the athletes.
Nationalism is what makes it a big deal. Without that there really is no point to it.
With all these streaming services, there are many other entertaining options than watching the Olympics
Rob confuses me first he was bashing the USA basketball because of close victories and now he’s saying that the dream team was boring cause they beat other countries by 40+ this dude is just all over the place smh bad bad bad takes and contradicting
I don’t think Rob really likes sports it just gave him an avenue to get paid to be negative 😂
Ok. So.
@@loudertv8676 I’m saying that’s why he doesn’t enjoy anything sports related 😂
@@datsapaddlin gotchu 👍🏾
😂😂😂
The Olympics dont have the same allure it once had thats all. Nothing is popular for ever.
The last time I wanted to watch the Olympics live was when Michael Phelps was making his gold medal run, other than that I watch the highlights.
1:00 Therr needs to be a World Champion Headliner defending their tiitle for another gold for that yype of intetest. A usain Bolt, Michael Johnson, Phelps etc.
It's the crowning moment of athletic brilliance against the best in the world. And it's always one and done. No series here. You've been training for years and if you don't get it right in that one moment it's gone.
I gotta be honest: I only tune in for basketball and I just casually watch the rest of the sports lol basketball is where all the star power is
I didn't even know it was happening... I did hear about Snoop and the torch but I thought it was for the LA Olympics not the Paris.
Its easier now with online but I watch as much as I can. Its only every four years.
I don't even watch the Basketball Olympics anymore, I just watch highlights
Time zone issues they normally way ahead Beijing London rio Tokyo Paris, it will be better in la and Toronto
It’s just leagues are so big now. The best basketball players play against each other in the nba finals not the Olympics like the best soccer players play in the World Cup not the Olympics. It’s only some sports like swimming or track and field where there are no major organizations that the best actually show up and compete
It’s because there’s so many forums to watch now.
It’s still good to watch which I still do myself BUT since the break up of the Soviet Union (the Cold War never ended) and the fall of the super duper East German women it’s not as compelling. Being able to watch it on CBC being across the river from Canada helps.
The Real kings of Doping the western world Marion Jones Justin Gatlin Randy Barnes Tyler Hamilton Lance Armstrong Floyd Landis Ben Johnson Zoop Zoetemelk Edgar Davids Jaap Stam Marco Pantani Franseco Moser Merckx Johaug Lindford Christie Sundby Mika Myllylä Canelo Alvarez and so on! British cyclist doper Simpson died amfetamin over dose in 1967 Tour de France! After that they started to do doping test! WE ARE TESTING BECAUSE THE WESTERN WORLD DOPING!
The british army calculeted formula 76/69 diffrence between Men and women! Usain Bolt his 100 meters world record 9,58! So we get 76/69x9,58=10,55 two ladies are faster than Bolt Griffith Joyner 10,49 and Thompson Herah 10,54! East German record 10,83! Our finnish Long distance runners olympics champions used strong stimulant amfetamin already in 1930s! The blood doping was used by west German footballers in 1954!
Finnish Ski Jumper Matti Nykänen jump 116 meters first jump Sarajevo 1984! Second Best was East German Jens Weissflog 107 meters! Matti Nykänen beat East German 8%! Nykänen must be the greatest ever!
Parker is onto something. The Olympics don't nearly have the same importance as it did 40 years ago. For one thing, there's so much more options for people to choose from. Secondly, the amateurism, that made the Olympics the event that it was, is long gone. The athletes are all pros now. Finally, the Cold War helped to make the Olympics a practice in nationalism. It hasn't been the same since the Soviet Union broke up
Imagine spending 50 yrs getting to enjoy something ,then get tired of it ..and ruin it for others
I definitely think it’s an age thing. Also, I think the Olympics are no different than any other major sporting event in which there are years you follow it and there are years you don’t.
After a cringy ceremony, I just didn't have time to watch ping pong, badminton, and fencing.
It was watch Tv before the internet
Also the Olympics is watered down with too many sports, which kinda takes away from it’s allure
That's very true. Lots of junk sports now. Especially in the winter with that trick ski and moguls and Roller Derby on ice.
It’s way more hyped now. You just try to find any reason to hate
Track and field no matter the year!
Social media drives highlight culture. Everything is now consumed in 15-30 second clips on Tik Tok and Instagram. Adults 40 and younger no longer sit down to watch long form television anymore.
Guys let's not go there. Everyone in America isn't historically from America. Let's give it a break.
Thank you preach!
I think besides gymnastics and maybe basketball we just want to see winners win! Everybody was rooting for Bolt just like they were for Phelps! As a kid? Yea! America first but now it’s all about the best player or team and seeing them win 🤷🏾♂️
Rob, you'll likely never see this, but on the off-chance you glance this, you're right. Politics has entered into the equation, in my own opinion. There's so much bad going on in this world, cops killing people in their own homes when the person they kill CALLED THEM FOR HELP; homelessness in a land full of billionaires buying everything up, including Washington politicians who vote to send our money overseas to foreign nations to wage war and kill innocents while the vast majority of us struggle mightily with high inflation that's made even the barest of necessities almost unaffordable.
And in the midst of all this evil and more, I'm supposed to care about a privileged few individuals doing things most any of us can do, winning medals that I can't eat? No USA gold medal is going to feed my family or pay my bills. That's the state of affairs for many if not most people right now. For those who can afford to indulge themselvrs and kill time by watching the Olympics, congratulations. For the rest of us, it just doesn't matter much anymore. People can disagree with me, and that's fine, but that's the way I see it.
BOYCOTT TEAM USA AND NIKE FOR THEIR BLACKBALLING OF JAYLEN BROWN
If im Nike , why would I put a guy on the team who is covering up my logo as some protest.? If this true Brown made his own bed. Stand on business and quit the crying
@@soda8736 THIS IS "TEAM USA 🇺🇸 " IT AINT "TEAM NIKE"
@@soda8736because freedom of speech. You’re cool with corporations having control over that?
@Rosecain27 you have freedom of speech but not freedom of consequences...I can go out and say F. NIKE , all I want but if they use their influence to negatively affect me it comes with the territory. People now a days think they can say anything amd everyone just has to kneel to them, it don't work like that..
I watch it for track and field only
Rob is always talking bout sum NEGATIVE!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
And we're all here for it! 😄😄😄😄😄
We have cell phones i pads cideo games.. everyone isnt home at the tv these days
Who is this guy with Rob Parker?
Nope! Wouldn't watch one minute.
Streaming and apps messed up the Olympics..
NO!
I've never watched keep it a buck
There were no nhl players in the olympics in 2022 or 2018
No. No it’s not….
no
Old ass people always not as interested. People still are watching just not Rob
Nothing is must see if you're not interested in it.
I didn't watch a second of the NBA Finals & will watch as much of the Olympics as i can.
You're just older.
Usain Bolt????
They talking about Noah Myles these days sir
Olympics became a circus, many people are not aware it already started. Why are the Americans performing yhere instead of the French people? The rating is too low because of their woke agenda, that's how unpopular it is now. They made it to be politicians, activists, woke platform. It put off people to watch, the athletes became just a display, a backround. Also million of fans around the world will not watch because of their snub of Clark.
(Sigh)
I don't understand your question. What do you mean? The French do participate in it and so are the Americans obviously. How could they not? Its the most prestigious athletic event in the history of mankind
@@volfi123 I didn’t ask a question I just made a comment to your text.
There were French performers during the opening ceremony and the world not watching because of Caitlin Clark. I wanted her to go but do you honestly think the WORLD will not watch because she’s not there keeping in mind that the United States is not the world?
@@zvbx but i responded to the original guy, not you:D miouise1828 asked a question
@@volfi123 Oh my mistake.
when did the world cup decline???
What do you mean is it must see TV? What else are you gonna watch in late July early August?
Czechoslovakia is no longer a country
Other guy is right … cmon Rob you been covering the league forever of course it’s not the same
Rob Parker doesn't watch sports.
lol fr🤣
Not must see TV,aside from T&F I’m not interested
We grow in Distractions. Our appeal for More is growing. Also, the Pageantry is held generation by generation so if the follow Gen isn't passingvthat on too crae as mich they won't. They're looking more for the sole storylines and making content off of it NoT being a spectator and another schrill for 'Country' sake.
I love looking at all the hot track and field women from all over the world, and enjoy the track and field in general.