Marco.....Polo!!

Am I the only one out there who couldn’t care less how many gold medals Michael Phelps wins?
Don’t get me wrong, I find it to be an amazing accomplishment, I really do. He has now won more gold medals than ANYONE in Olympic history—congratulations, that’s just sick!
Then again…
Adrian Peterson rushing for 296 yards in a game-pretty cool. Or hitting 600 home runs for a career. Or even Kobe’s 81 points in one game. And the last two I mentioned aren't even records!!
Is it because I’m a typical American who likes my baseball and football and can’t appreciate other sports such as cycling (yawn) and (gasp) swimming?
I think my problem with sports such as swimming goes back to my definition of sport-that I feel you need to have an opponent. Yes Michael is racing against other top notch athletes, but there’s no one in that pool attempting to drown him.
There’s no one sixty feet six inches away throwing him a 98 mph fastball.
There’s no one trying to get in his face to block his three pointers.
There’s no one blitzing him from the corner position.
Am I just simply not appreciating this for what it is? Is it like most American’s not appreciating Lance Armstrong’s amazing run of Tour de France wins?
Or is it exactly what I think it is; a guy who can swim really fast.
And when I put it that way, there’s no wonder I'm currently flipping between two preseason NFL games instead of watching Phelps go for gold medal #4,983.

There is one silver lining from this whole thing...Phelps is a graduate of the University of Michigan...hmm...what do ya know? GO BLUE!!