Buffalo Boy's Blog

For those of you who missed it, I can remember some great opening ceremonies, but this was truly spectacular. Some 15,000 individual performers participated in last nights ceremonies and it was simply amazing. For all the negatives that have been talked about prior to these Olympics, the opening festivities helped everyone forget about all that stuff.

The torch lighting was simply unique and awe inspiring all rolled into one. The lighting of the torch may have been the icing on the cake last night. I don't think anyone could have done it better.

It will be difficult for the next host of the 30th games to upstage this. Film maker Zhang Yimou went all out with a seemingly endless budget to do what he did last night. Take a look at the lighting of the torch, butterflies in the stomach man, thats all I could muster watching that. Watching that is one reason why the Olympics are the premier sporting event in the world, Super Bowl included, nothing can match the Olympics as a sporting event: