It’s just for one game, and is a charity thing/publicity stunt. Bode will be suiting up for the Nashua Pride. From the ESPN.com news services article…
Downhill skier Bode Miller, who won two silver medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002 but was shut out in a disappointing showing in this year’s Torino Games, has signed a one-game contract to play for the Nashua (N.H.) Pride of the independent CanAm League.
Disappointing? What was disappointing about Bode Miller’s performance in Torino? How soon we forget that he partied at an Olympic level. These are the screwed-up expectations that the oppressed Bode Miller has to deal with. People expect winning, results, trying hard, competing, and reaching his full capability… all that bullshit. What’s important is that he partied at an Olympic level, no matter what the squares and hypocrites in the media would have you believe.
It is to raise money for charity, though. $5,000 of the ticket sales will go to Bode’s Turtle Ridge Foundation, which will in turn give the money to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It’s nice that some money is going to a worthy cause, and Bode gets a round of applause for that. But I kinda thought that Bode and Lance had some beef. Once upon a time, Bode intimated to the media (who I’m sure twisted his words and is incapable of truly understanding the depth of his character) that Lance was using steroids, and Lance was none too thrilled about it.
Anyway, good luck to Bode in his new efforts to party at a minor league level.
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