I'd love to see American football as an Olympic sport. I'm just picturing a 5'7" South Korean QB dropping back to pass with Ray Lewis coming at him with a full head of steam. Or watching said South Korean team try to tackle Maurice Jones-Drew.
Football is 22 men walking around and kicking each other in the nuts.
"Football" is an endless commercial break.
But the olympics is a great chance to watch other sports I normally don't watch.
It's all fuckin' awesome. There is nothing like Olympic (International) competition. Hockey is still the best Olympic (Winter) event. Nothing comes close as far as the blood and guts spilled for some hardware.
As far as b-ball it would be cool if Dirk and Germany got the gold for Dirk to have a ring and the gold within the relatively same time period.