Never thought curling could be this intense.

I love curling. In fact, it’s the only winter sport I like or would want to participate in. I happened to catch it on ESPN in the middle of night when I was 8 or 9. The announcers never said what it was called and I didn’t know because I’d never found it in any books (my only real source of knowledge then).

Later on, I tried describing it to my parents so they could tell me what it was but they thought I was making it up. (“And there were people with brushes on ice with round weights and they clean the ice ahead of the weight.”) It all sounds like utter nonsense when you tell someone about it.

I eventually found out its name when I caught it again on ESPN and the announcer happened to say it.