I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.
Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.
Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for.
There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.
We didn't have time to go tobogganing, because we didn't have the toboggan.
