Extreme!!!

What happened to you X Games? You used to be cool.

Do you remember the first X Games? It was in Rhode Island. Chris Fowler and Suzy Kolber hosted the coverage. There was some really great events: skateboard vert, street luge, even rock climbing. It was pretty entertaining. Now they've pretty much botched the whole thing. They have "cool" commentators who are awful to listen to (Note: being on TV doesn't make you a professional broadcaster). They moved to LA, which is really all you need to say about that. They dumped events like rock climbing, I can only assume because they weren't EXTREME enough. Even the camerawork tries too hard to be cool. It's really too bad, because many of the events really are entertaining. Tony Hawk's skateboard run that ended in him jumping off the course into the bay was a sports moment that was really memorable for me. "Extreme" sports are never going to be taken seriously with this kind of coverage.