On Saturday, the American Men’s Curling Team made history by winning its first-ever Winter Olympics Gold medal. And while their skill and hard work definitely deserves most of the credit, we should probably chock up some small part of their win to the pump-up speech They got from Curling super-fan Mr. T.
Though we don’t know the rest of the A-Team star’s message, it must have been stirring: The US men’s Team went on to beat Sweden, the top-ranked curlers in the world. Mr. T has been cheering on American Curling throughout the olympics, using the incredible hashtag #curlingiscoolfool.
<a class="body-link" href="https://twitter.com/MrT/status/967228245539041280" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://twitter.com/MrT/status/967228245539041280"/>In an interview with Time, Mr. T swore he wasn’t a paid shill for Big Curling, but an honest-to-God fan, showing his love for the sport on social media.
The team’s win was the culmination of five successive victories, after an early loss to Norway found them near elimination. For Team leader John Shuster, the win broke a medal-less dry spell three Winter Olympics long.
Perhaps at Beijing’s 2022 winter games, he’ll be joined by his biggest fan:
“Do They have a senior citizen’s circuit? For curling?†Mr. T asks. “I said to myself, ‘T, you’ve got to remember, you are 65, man.’†He’s afraid of slipping on the Curling ice — or “sheet.†“Man, wow, I’m not wimping out, but you don’t want to get out there and hurt yourself,†he says. “I have to make sure I’m all padded up. I’ll have my wrist guards, my knee stuff, my ankle stuff. It might look like I’m coming to play football. But I’ll just be ready to curl.â€
02-11-2019, 09:59 PM
Mr. T Gave the U.S. Men’s Curling Team a Pep Talk Right Before They Won Gold
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