Award for the most inflated ego goes to…
I was wandering the Internet looking for funny things to write about and found an interesting bitlet. Remember Tonya Harding? Think real hard… think U.S. figure skating … think assault on an opponent … yea her. I found this on her website:
For good, for bad, depending on your point of view, Tonya Harding has been one of the most influential or perhaps controversial persons in Figure Skating history, and in all sports history…
Oh… I don’t think she was at all influential in world figure skating – more like a minor blip on the screen. No doubt she had talent, but ice rinks are littered with the remains of talented individuals. I wouldn’t even give her a controversial award. She simply flamed out in disgrace. Any controversy centered around the rough treatment she received because of her “trailer” living background. To the American press, Harding just couldn’t hold a candle to their middle class princess what’s her name… oh hell… I have to go look up the name…. Nancy Kerrigan, another candidate for the Inflated Ego Award.
I loved the ESPN networks collage of the most important moments in a century of sporting history. They include the attack on Kerrigan. This was a very sad moment in sport history, but hardly one of the most important moments and certainly not to be placed just after the Munich Olympics and the earth quake that rocked California during a baseball game. The clip should be relabeled American Sports History. Hardly any non-American moments made it. To be fair, it was made for an American audience, not a world audience.
