Those Dudes From "The Amazing Race"
I really thought I would be rooting for Rob and Amber on "The Amazing Race." I know I'm twisted and sick, but I like Boston Rob. Maybe it's the baseball cap. But it turns out I'm really rooting for the brothers from California.First of all, they're incredibly funny. A great deal of this show is very staged, like when they have to read their next clue aloud, so one of the brothers will always read it wrong. Instead of "Go south 30 miles until you reach the border of Botswana," he'll say, "Go home to Mom's house and have some chicken." I don't know why but this just floors me.
Secondly, they're very nice to each other and everybody else. Usually there are a lot of couples on this show and they fight and fight and fight. These guys are just having a really good time and it shows. Early in the season they were forging a friendship with a team of two girls. After just barely beating them to the finish line in one leg of the race the girls were eliminated and these guys actually, openly wept at having beat them. They're playing to win, but not at the cost of being jerks like...okay...Boston Rob.
But this past week they showed their TRUE colors and got me really rooting for them. Driving over an incredibly gravelly "road" in the desert, the brothers lost control of their jeep and rolled it. They were okay but the cameraman with them was really banged up and it looked like he was unconscious. They were really shaken up by having hurt this guy. (By the way, the ONLY team to actually get out and check on these guys was the gay couple. They stayed to make sure they were okay, even after they told them to keep going and not lose the race on account of them. Some of the other teams stopped but continued on after the brothers told them to go. Some teams -- yeah, yeah, Rob and Amber -- didn't stop at all.)
After a replacement car finally reached them and they were convinced to jump back in the race, assured that the cameraman would be okay, they drove away. Immediately the brother in back reached up to hold the arm of the brother in front...and they prayed...aloud...on a popular national TV show...for God to take care of the cameraman. I'm pretty sure this was the first time I cried while watching a reality show that didn't have "home makeover" in the title.
I was so proud of these California boys for doing that. It obviously came very naturally to them. And it made me look back and realize what a clean race they were running. This is exactly what we've been talking about at College lately...what will the world think of us if we show them Jesus? Christians are portrayed so poorly on TV (anybody see the "Christian wife" on "WifeSwap?"). I was so pleased to see these guys represent our Lord.
They came back, by the way. Overtook the incredibly obnoxious, competitive guy and his wife by just plain outrunning them to the finish line. Lisa and I were yelling like it was the Olympics.
MAN, I hope they win.
posted by Thurman8er @ 10:17 AM
2 Comments:
I've only seen this show one time and the people were so ugly I didn't watch it again. But, you made it sound exciting...and if there's a "good guy" to cheer for, I'll be more likely to tune in.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we had a reality show of what goes on at the church? All our lives...in church and out of it? YIKES!!
I don't "do" reality TV. I am one of a half dozen people in the world who has never watched ANY of the Survivor series.
That said . . . I thought it was interesting that it was a gay couple that stopped to help a fallen competitor. It reminded me of the story of the Good Samaritan. Substitute "gay", "lesbian","atheist", etc. and you have a better idea of the point Jesus was trying to make.
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