What the fuck did you expect? That the general public was going to see what we do and just automatically lose their shit and start paying us millions and millions of dollars to fling our bodies through the sky tied to pieces of wood? I can’t for the life of me figure out why everyone is getting so fired up about Bob Costas saying what he said. Whether or not you like it, that IS exactly what the general public’s opinion is of our beloved sport. No matter how much time each “Olympian” puts in at the gym, how much “training” each of them does, we are still a bunch of jackasses that travel entirely too fast down a mountain, jumping off of mounds of snow and sliding these ridiculous tools attached to our feet on metal obstacles. How does that not sound fucking ridiculous? How do you think Billy Martin from Jacksonville feels about it? How can you possibly be offended that he thinks that way?
The other fact of the matter is: Bob Costas knows more about the history of freeskiing than any of you idiots that are getting mad about it.
Think about it. Our founders were a bunch of loose cannons that were pissed off at the state of freestyle skiing when FIS got involved. They literally MADE UP A SPORT, just like he said. How was he in any way, shape, or form wrong? Go ahead and take the term jackass for the literal definition if you want to, but I believe that it’s somebody that does something completely off the wall. Sometimes they do it just for a reaction, sometimes just for the attention, but mostly because they want to. In my opinion, everyone involved with the shaping and progression of freeskiing into what it is today is a jackass.
Plake was a complete jackass running around with that mohawk.
Shane was a total jackass jumping off of cliffs naked.
Tanner (and I mean this with all due respect) but pretty much everything he does outside of skiing has a level of jackassery.
Henrik, gooning it up with a hockey jersey, backwards goggles, and a pink helmet? Come on.
We are all fucking jackasses. We do ridiculous things because we want to and choose to have them recorded and shown to people. So take your panties, unbunch them, and realize that you all wanted this. If we wanted soooo badly to be put on the Olympic stage flipping and spinning and jumping in the U-ditch, then we should have been ready to be scrutinized. Throw on some Vagisil and deal with it.
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