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Of Divas, Jocks, and JOSS

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What happens when you gather a handful of athletes that take themselves too seriously, throw in a gaggle of media personnel that would never dare deflate the egos of those they so proudly call friends, and one bizarre Swedish diva event host? JOSS, of course.  Add a once-in-a-century volcanic eruption that strands all those chuckleheads in Europe, and you’ve got a volatile combination.

jon_lambo

Just by writing this I run the real risk of giving you the impression that any of this matters. It doesn’t. However, the situation with Team America releasing their edit too early, Jon writing a strongly worded letter, and then Tom and Simon’s agents writing a pretty silly response for them has really helped me understand what is so annoying about our sport’s primadonnas.

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