It seems like every four years the media wakes up and remembers curling is an Olympic sport and starts the same jokes all over again. I can’t really blame t hem as I once sat through a collegiate curling practice – 20 years later and I would still rate that experience up there with Vogon poetry

2010 though, is whole new Olympic year thanks to the Norwegians and their crazy pants You know you’re on to something in curling when other teams are laughing at you (they’re pretty used to everyone else rolling their eyes..) And the argyle is actually in keeping with the sport when you consider that both argyle and curling are credited to Scotland – the once place where fashion dictates wearing argyle socks with a plaid kilt as long as the colors match.

If these look like your kind of pants, you can order them online for a mere $89 – however the extensive press coverage means they are now on back order and you can expect to see red and grey argyle pants just about everywhere soon, including on the King of Norway.

The big questions – do the pants help you win? Well at this point Norway is in the semi-finals so they don’t make you lose.