Let your voice be heard so that Mike Riddle gets some cash and a PS3.
January 16, 2009, 10:29 PM
By: John Symms
The second stop of the Winter Dew Tour has come and gone, but the contest isn't completely over. Balloting is transpiring now to award the Playstation Pro Moment. Two skiers are in the mix for the award: JF Houle with a (laughably misnamed) nose butter 270 on to pretzel 270 out; and Mike Riddle for the switch 1080 (again, misnamed as there's no such thing as "cab" on skis) that kicked off his superpipe run.
Get over to the Pro Moment page and vote for one of those skiers right now. If we can all get together on this thing and award a skier with the Pro Moment Part Deux (Dew?), we'll be just one Tour stop of giving the sport of skiing a clean sweep of the Pro Moment Promotional Afterprize category. Then it can be one of those trivial victories that we point to as evidence that skiing is, indeed, cooler than snowboarding — or at least more capable of organizing and mobilizing Internet communities. We'll make it Reason Number 11 that Skiing Is Cooler Than Snowboarding.
But, I mean, does it really matter? Nonskiers and nonsnowboarders have put a man on the moon. They also developed the Macbook, and all skiers and snowboarders can seem to do is buy them (and, of course, be unabashedly and constantly smug about it).
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