If you’ve grown sick of these NBC/Olympics stories, too bad! We have nearly two weeks of Olympics and their respective tape delays left. I don’t even want to count how many hours of delayed Ryan Seacrest that is.
Here is a wild, EXCLUSIVE, Olympic story that could only be found by top-notch journalists with Internet connections and Twitter accounts (where could we find people with those qualifications? Not in New Orleans).
Anyway, buried lede: A Twitter account, @NBCDelayed has been mocking NBC’s ill-conceived, tape-delayed coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games. The account has only posted 29 tweets, but they are comedic gold; starting two days after the opening ceremonies, it has attracted over 26,000 followers in under four days.
Here are some of my favorites:
BREAKING: American colonists announce independence, King to respond.
— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 29, 2012
Michael Jordan and Dream Team win gold medal in 117–85 victory against Croatia
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San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 29, 2012
Tune in tonight for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing
#NBCFail— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 29, 2012
BREAKING: Dewey defeats Truman in landslide.
— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 30, 2012
CORRECTION: Dewey doesn’t defeat Truman, Truman re-elected President.
— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 30, 2012
BREAKING: Roman Emperor Theodosius bans Olympic Games, NBC delay to catch up shortly.
#394AD— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) July 30, 2012
BREAKING: Underdog Jamaican bobsleigh team loses control and crashes.
— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) August 1, 2012
Want more Olympics? Don’t worry, we are now running a delayed version of our delayed broadcast.
— NBC Delayed (@NBCDelayed) August 1, 2012
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until Twitter tips off NBC, NBC files a complaint and Twitter suspends the account before re-activating it and apologizing. Man, wouldn’t that be a crazy sequence of events?
