Sliding Right By

Looking to expand the limited selection of reading materials I expose myself to, I dug deep into the archives of Adirondack Life. I scrolled down the page until I found a piece on curling. As an open-minded reader and a massive critic of this sport, I thought another persons opinion may be able to break my narrow-minded image of these shenanigans on ice.
 I didn't.
The blog (which I just realized was a blog) began with the Niki Kourofsky describing her limited knowledge that rested perpendicular with mine. Great. This will surly explain what my image of the sport was missing.
It didn't.
The development of curling took up a large majority of the story. The Scottish brought it to the Americas a long time ago and it does not take an outside source to know the popularity hasn't exactly skyrocketed since then.
Following this consistently dull history were the dull rules. There is nothing worth mentioning if someone has watched the sport in the Olympics. It holds similar entertainment value to the warming period of a lava-lamp. The result is never what we would like it to be. No trash talking, cursing or boozing. How the United States recruits their players is past my understanding.
After the rules and regulations there was no doubt this story would shock anyone still conscious and reading.
Not exactly.
She went on to explain that people play the sport on lakes in the Adirondacks and the clubs are more than willing to teach people to play.
I continue to read this story hoping I missed something but this doesn't seem to be the case. Kourofsky did nothing wrong aside from writing on something less than one percent of Americans will ever hold any value to. Sadly, it was well written and she did her homework but I feel it was just an attempt to fill space rather than provoke interest. She was better off writing about how the ice it is played on freezes or the mineral composition of the stones used; either would offer equal or more excitement. I fully realize one day I will have to write on life draining events so I hope this does not come off as an attack on her writing or her writing.
It's not.