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Johnny Mo, ladies and gentlemen!
If I had to guess, I'd say this is from when he was curling with a broken pinkie. Let's be honest, this is probably maximum badassery for a curler. He also curled two days after getting hit by a car? Oh, and he's a firefighter in his day job.
He looks best in action, as he is an exceptional curler, but I finally managed to find a few photographs that capture the hotness. Because oh my god, he is hot. He is so hot when he curls. Apparently someone at one of the matches shouted at him to take his shirt off. If only!!
Johnny Mo is causing me to lose a lot of sleep these days, largely because I stayed up until 3AM Saturday night watching curling videos and then slept all day Sunday. That's right, I spent my Saturday night watching curling videos. XD That gold medal match with Norway (and their pants - why don't I understand Norwegian??) has too many sexy Johnny takeouts to resist. If NBC doesn't keep up their Olympic videos for a little while yet, I will sob. (That's a 5 minute highlight clip that only has HALF of Johnny's multiple rock takeouts. If you have 3 hours and access to NBC's video thingie, here's the full game. Match? Draw?)
Anyway, Johnny Mo and Kevin Martin both have facebook groups now, and both have many many members - which is awesome because the groups are about three days old. XD But anyway, amazing awesome lovely people posted a couple good pictures so I shamelessly stole them. Photos also nabbed from flickr and this Marc guy.
I loves me some K-Mart, too! They are adorable. Hahaha, someone was talking about the gold medal final and was saying that everyone was ready - "John Morris has just the right level of facial scruff." Indeed.
Yesss, curling in action, so hot! Yes. I think curling is hot. I might be deranged, ngl. Well, it's hot when Johnny Mo does it!
Norway's curling pants making an epic cameo.
This picture is part of a photoshoot. Which I cannot figure out how to get my hands on. They discuss it here but as far as I can figure it sounds like the photos are part of some ticket package? This makes little sense. I also would love to have the article where he discusses the photoshoot. Why am I at a point in my life where I want a 14 month old edition of a curling newsletter?
10 things we learned in Vancouver
"Hotter than a pistol." WORD. Completely agree with and crack up at item 3. Also, item 8. Seriously NBC, I know you're not using CNBC. Replace some of that programming with curling once a week. Once a month. Twice a week. ALL THE TIME.
The enigmatic 'Johnny Mo'
Amazing article about Johnny.
Tag Team Part II: Two of curling's top skips unite to take on the world
Laying out the plot of the Hot Rocks: The John Morris Story, coming soon to television sets around Canada. Or, you know, the story of how he transitioned from being a skip of his own rink to being third on Team Kevin Martin.
Make sure the beer is ready tonight
Aww no, it looks like they're not playing in the nationals this year! Heartbreak! He is, however, apparently partying with Sidney Crosby.
By the way, before becoming a firefighter, he was a personal trainer and has a degree in. . . something related to that. And has written a book. About how to work out so you can be in the best shape for curling. And it is called Fit to Curl. Epic hilarity.
Oh, and here's a youtube video of Johnny in action. 45 seconds long. It's more about what an awesome shot he makes than how hot he is, but it's a freaking awesome shot. XD
By the way, I am so sorry for constantly treating lead and second Ben Hebert and Marc Kennedy (respectively) as afterthoughts. Ben did an amazing day in the life of an Olympian video, in which he cannot get drive through at Tim Hortons because the window of his car has frozen shut. But yeah, since it was pointed out to me and I've been actually paying attention, you can definitely easily see the difference between the strength, skill and power of their sweeping and that of many other teams. They're awesome, and amazing curlers and the whole teamwork aspect of the sweeping makes it incredibly charming. Kevin's "bulls". XD They're so good.
Also, Hebert really is built like an ox, god damn. I thought he was chubby and he does have a bit of a stomach, but he's seriously quite muscle-bound (also I bet the slight chub makes him even sexier to lots of people). And Kennedy is actually the most photogenic of the group, he is just a muffin. Apparently he has a tiny daughter, I want to see pictures of him with her even though it makes me a huge creeper, because he seems like someone who would be heartbreakingly cute with little kids.
However, neither of them lights a fire in my loins, nor do they look like rockstars on the ice, therefore they do not get picspams. ;)
EDIT whaaaaaat:
"In between the fourth and fifth ends of the 1 vs 2 playoff game, Stu had the in-house camera focusing on couples in the crowd while he commentated. The funniest reaction, by far, occurred when the camera zoomed in on Alberta third John Morris and lead-slash-curling commentator Ben Hebert, who at the time were both at ice level watching the Jumbotron.
Ben proceeded to grab Johnny Mo and show him some love. They pretended to kiss, they hugged and the crowd cheered."
Side note, I love this quote:
"Kevin Martin was nice enough to tell his competitors in today’s Tankard Times that he’s struggling with his inturn. Who does that? Then again, if the Ol’ Bear is struggling with a turn, it probably means he’s missing by a micrometre instead of a millimetre."
People are not just trying to build up Olympic hype when they say Martin is the best. He is all over the pages of this Curl News thing, usually in pretty respectful terms.
Oh, John Morris, such a hottie. I've seen him referred to as a heartthrob and a hunk, and an LJ search for his name (LJ searching to see what people are saying about my favorite Olympians is my new favorite creepy hobby) shows others swooning about him too. XD I love not being alone in random crushes. Hence this post? Or maybe I just needed an excuse to write about him more and search for pictures.
Secret dream: curling to become massively popular in the US and Johny Mo to be the Tom Brady/Kobe Bryant/other athletic figure heartthrob of the sport (I am out of touch). Even though he'd probably hate that. >.>
I would settle for curling to become popular enough to be shown on Universal Sports though, and for the Martin rink to win a few more world titles and then have Kev pass the reigns (no sooner than he wants to! Curl forever Kevin! Come to Sochi!) to Johnny who continues undefeated for years and years while the Old Bear does broadcasting that I get to see on American TV. :D
Anyway, enjoy the Johnny Morris post. I am a ridiculous human being.
If I had to guess, I'd say this is from when he was curling with a broken pinkie. Let's be honest, this is probably maximum badassery for a curler. He also curled two days after getting hit by a car? Oh, and he's a firefighter in his day job.
He looks best in action, as he is an exceptional curler, but I finally managed to find a few photographs that capture the hotness. Because oh my god, he is hot. He is so hot when he curls. Apparently someone at one of the matches shouted at him to take his shirt off. If only!!
Johnny Mo is causing me to lose a lot of sleep these days, largely because I stayed up until 3AM Saturday night watching curling videos and then slept all day Sunday. That's right, I spent my Saturday night watching curling videos. XD That gold medal match with Norway (and their pants - why don't I understand Norwegian??) has too many sexy Johnny takeouts to resist. If NBC doesn't keep up their Olympic videos for a little while yet, I will sob. (That's a 5 minute highlight clip that only has HALF of Johnny's multiple rock takeouts. If you have 3 hours and access to NBC's video thingie, here's the full game. Match? Draw?)
Anyway, Johnny Mo and Kevin Martin both have facebook groups now, and both have many many members - which is awesome because the groups are about three days old. XD But anyway, amazing awesome lovely people posted a couple good pictures so I shamelessly stole them. Photos also nabbed from flickr and this Marc guy.
I loves me some K-Mart, too! They are adorable. Hahaha, someone was talking about the gold medal final and was saying that everyone was ready - "John Morris has just the right level of facial scruff." Indeed.
Yesss, curling in action, so hot! Yes. I think curling is hot. I might be deranged, ngl. Well, it's hot when Johnny Mo does it!
Norway's curling pants making an epic cameo.
This picture is part of a photoshoot. Which I cannot figure out how to get my hands on. They discuss it here but as far as I can figure it sounds like the photos are part of some ticket package? This makes little sense. I also would love to have the article where he discusses the photoshoot. Why am I at a point in my life where I want a 14 month old edition of a curling newsletter?
10 things we learned in Vancouver
"Hotter than a pistol." WORD. Completely agree with and crack up at item 3. Also, item 8. Seriously NBC, I know you're not using CNBC. Replace some of that programming with curling once a week. Once a month. Twice a week. ALL THE TIME.
The enigmatic 'Johnny Mo'
Amazing article about Johnny.
Tag Team Part II: Two of curling's top skips unite to take on the world
Laying out the plot of the Hot Rocks: The John Morris Story, coming soon to television sets around Canada. Or, you know, the story of how he transitioned from being a skip of his own rink to being third on Team Kevin Martin.
Make sure the beer is ready tonight
Aww no, it looks like they're not playing in the nationals this year! Heartbreak! He is, however, apparently partying with Sidney Crosby.
By the way, before becoming a firefighter, he was a personal trainer and has a degree in. . . something related to that. And has written a book. About how to work out so you can be in the best shape for curling. And it is called Fit to Curl. Epic hilarity.
Oh, and here's a youtube video of Johnny in action. 45 seconds long. It's more about what an awesome shot he makes than how hot he is, but it's a freaking awesome shot. XD
By the way, I am so sorry for constantly treating lead and second Ben Hebert and Marc Kennedy (respectively) as afterthoughts. Ben did an amazing day in the life of an Olympian video, in which he cannot get drive through at Tim Hortons because the window of his car has frozen shut. But yeah, since it was pointed out to me and I've been actually paying attention, you can definitely easily see the difference between the strength, skill and power of their sweeping and that of many other teams. They're awesome, and amazing curlers and the whole teamwork aspect of the sweeping makes it incredibly charming. Kevin's "bulls". XD They're so good.
Also, Hebert really is built like an ox, god damn. I thought he was chubby and he does have a bit of a stomach, but he's seriously quite muscle-bound (also I bet the slight chub makes him even sexier to lots of people). And Kennedy is actually the most photogenic of the group, he is just a muffin. Apparently he has a tiny daughter, I want to see pictures of him with her even though it makes me a huge creeper, because he seems like someone who would be heartbreakingly cute with little kids.
However, neither of them lights a fire in my loins, nor do they look like rockstars on the ice, therefore they do not get picspams. ;)
EDIT whaaaaaat:
"In between the fourth and fifth ends of the 1 vs 2 playoff game, Stu had the in-house camera focusing on couples in the crowd while he commentated. The funniest reaction, by far, occurred when the camera zoomed in on Alberta third John Morris and lead-slash-curling commentator Ben Hebert, who at the time were both at ice level watching the Jumbotron.
Ben proceeded to grab Johnny Mo and show him some love. They pretended to kiss, they hugged and the crowd cheered."
Side note, I love this quote:
"Kevin Martin was nice enough to tell his competitors in today’s Tankard Times that he’s struggling with his inturn. Who does that? Then again, if the Ol’ Bear is struggling with a turn, it probably means he’s missing by a micrometre instead of a millimetre."
People are not just trying to build up Olympic hype when they say Martin is the best. He is all over the pages of this Curl News thing, usually in pretty respectful terms.
Oh, John Morris, such a hottie. I've seen him referred to as a heartthrob and a hunk, and an LJ search for his name (LJ searching to see what people are saying about my favorite Olympians is my new favorite creepy hobby) shows others swooning about him too. XD I love not being alone in random crushes. Hence this post? Or maybe I just needed an excuse to write about him more and search for pictures.
Secret dream: curling to become massively popular in the US and Johny Mo to be the Tom Brady/Kobe Bryant/other athletic figure heartthrob of the sport (I am out of touch). Even though he'd probably hate that. >.>
I would settle for curling to become popular enough to be shown on Universal Sports though, and for the Martin rink to win a few more world titles and then have Kev pass the reigns (no sooner than he wants to! Curl forever Kevin! Come to Sochi!) to Johnny who continues undefeated for years and years while the Old Bear does broadcasting that I get to see on American TV. :D
Anyway, enjoy the Johnny Morris post. I am a ridiculous human being.
