Whatever I care about the Olympics, I care about Olympic swimming even less. Add on top of that my reflexive dismissing of anyone who’s been hyped by the media, and I’m pretty sure that I’d never have written about Michael Phelps, here. But it’s been on in the background tonight, and they just cut to the Baltimore Ravens (NFL team) stadium, where it looked like most of the people in attendance had stayed *after* a preseason game to watch a native son aim for a record eighth gold. And as he did it, thousands and thousands of Baltimoreans cheered.
That’s pretty fucking cool.