Olympic Curling

As I type this, the U.S. and Canada are locked in mortal Curling combat on MSNBC.

As seriously as these people obviously take this event, I have to assume that there is actually some method to it, but it is incomprehensible to me. One guy slides the shiny rock with the handle across the ice and then two guys run ahead of it moving their brooms from side-to-side on the ice. Then, a third guy joins them and slides his broom from side-to-side on the ice.

While the guys with the brooms are doing their thing, the intense fellow who slid the rock yells at them. I cannot understand what he is saying, but he seems quite sincere about it.

The play-by-play man is yelling "they gotta go deep on it! They gotta go deep on it!"

Go deep on what? I don't understand.

Is it good or bad for the rock to hit the other rocks?

The Canadian rock just knocked the American rock out of the blue ring. The Canadians in the stands are going crazy. You'd think every one of them just won a free King Cake from Meche's Bakery (it's a Louisiana thing).

I think Canada won. Commercial break.

I gotta say, Calvinball makes more sense to me.