I don’t feel the rhythm. I don’t feel the rhyme. It may be bobsled time, but sorry, Jamaica — I am not coming along.The Winter Olympics start tomorrow, but does anyone in America care?The winter games seem so distant.Partly because they always transpire some place cold — which is never the southern United States – but mainly because there isn’t any real connection between the winter games and the southern United States. Here is a list of grievances toward the games, which explain why they just do not connect well with Southerners:1. The sports in the winter games are mostly sports you can’t just get up and play. In the summer games, basketball, soccer and track and field are all sports in which kids can simply find a ball, walk outside, find an open space and play.The winter sports, which include various skiing and snowboarding events, all require a very important aspect that is very hard to come by in the South — snow. It almost never snows this far south, and there is never enough snow to snowboard or ski even when it does.Some of the other sports such as curling, hockey and figure skating are very hard to get involved with at a young enough age down here to breed any Olympic-caliber talent.Sure, there are ice rinks in the South, but I challenge anyone who reads this to walk into one and see if anyone has the equipment or even the desire to join you for a pickup game of curling or hockey.As far as the bobsledding events, where can I purchase a bobsled in the South? More importantly, where would I be able to use said bobsled?             It takes a tremendous amount of effort for someone in an American state where is doesn’t snow enough for these sports to get involved in them, and that effort is usually put towards baseball or football. 2. Sticking with bobsledding, the only really moving memory I have of the Winter Olympics is when the Jamaican bobsled team carried their sled across the finish line — which didn’t really happen. I can thank “Cool Runnings” for that.   All I can remember from the last Winter Olympics is American skier Bode Miller laying a gigantic egg in all of his events and embarrassing the country by saying he skied hung over and drunk.This is a polar opposite of the last Summer Olympics. I got to witness some of the most dominant performances in Olympic history last summer.I witnessed Usain Bolt shatter a world record and not even run as fast as he could. I saw Michael Phelps smoke the competion for a record eight gold medals. I watched a swimmer named Cullen Jones win a gold medal after almost drowning as a child. 3. Where is the star power? The most hyped American athlete these games is Lindsey Vonn. Vonn is a talented skier, but part of her notoriety is the fact she appears half-naked in this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.She may not even compete in all of her events. She suffered an injury while training in Austria and revealed Wednesday the injury had not healed like she had hoped.This would seriously suck the hype right out of the American team as she was a major gold medal hope.   Another hyped-up athlete is the snowboarder Shaun White, but I feel like I was introduced to him as a skateboarder who also snowboards — not a snowboarder who also skateboards.Most of his fame comes from the X-Games anyway and the mounds of products he endorses.And then there’s Bode.Miller is more famous for his bad-boy image than his talent, which has yet to materialize in Olympic gold.Most of the NHL’s best and notable hockey players are not American. Sidney Crosby will play for his native Canada, and Alexander Ovechkin will play for his native Russia.These games are made even less exciting by the news coming out of Vancouver, British Columbia, that there is a shortage of snow. Snow is the main component for the winter games. If it isn’t showing support for the games, why should I?