Winter Olympics Roots

I have not watched much of the Winter Olympics because I find it very boring, but I watched a bit tonight. Here is my read on this sporting festival:

Seems like a sporting event in a very small town in northern Wisconsin or northern Minnesota and lots people tired of being frozen in for months and drinking hard and long, got bored in the dead of winter and decided that they would have some so called athletic fun...................................................

Sort of a merger of Jack Ass meets sub-zero temperatures and lots of snow...................................................