the_dude8

Confucius say: If a team loses their passport on day one, just ask someone to tweet lost passport for you.

mwbmis

Of course they're not allowed to do it. However, unlike the other teams they look alike. They could huddle up or maybe have to use the restroom (we don't know the rules on that).

What fun is it to do the Amazing Race with your twin if you don't game the rules and switch out in a hard road block (that wasn't really that hard!)

skatefan20

Go twitter!!
"Gotta clue?"
It's great watching these racers attempt to not overlook any detail and try to cover all the bases.

Hazard? Was that the best name the producers can come up with for their new 'twist' on the penalty? And it wasn't much of a change up from the speed bump.

Racers losing items, Ford product placement, Phil's arched eyebrow - I'm excited for the new season!

DJariya

I live in Southern California and that Chinese Temple where the race began at was in Hacienda Heights. I assume the gas station was probably a few blocks away.

Hacienda Heights is approx 35 miles away from LAX. I'm really surprised those 2 guys would drive that far to return a passport. I was really amazed at the whole twitter thing and how that all played out.

Whether it was partially staged or not, I'm glad that Kaylani and Lisa survived it. Need the eye candy.

at Bill and Cathi and how clueless they were. I've been to Taiwan before and recognized that whole area....they were literally walking around in circles. I think at one point they walked several miles away from the big screen with the chinese writing.

DJariya

Huh??? Who are you talking about?

auto

I'm sure he meant to say Survivor.

Evan Meadow

There's obviously a clause in there about this only working if you're being filmed by reality TV crews.

Evan Meadow

Confucius/TAR producers say: Girls that attractive are NOT getting eliminated that early by any means necessary.

Red Dog

I was waiting for the gay couple during the player-intros, and then, Bam! They really don't fool around on TAR when they cast the gay male couple. They really go for the stereotype.....gymnastics partners and flight attendants.

And I'm sure the producers had nothing to do with the miraculous retrieval of the lost passport. Twitter my ass.

starseed1981

Great start imho. I wonder how much Twitter paid for that on air advertisement?

davidh777

Tight end is probably the third-hugest position on the football field, behind the offensive interior line and the defensive line. He's basically an adjunct offensive lineman.

Wikipedia shows him as 6'3", 255, which is probably pretty typical TE size. There have been some who are taller and larger, but they don't usually run much smaller.

Red Dog

Marcus Pollard was probably on the smaller side of tight-ends since he was more of a pass-catching one than blocking one. He was very good in his time, although Peyton seemed to make everyone look good.

Looks like he's stayed in decent shape since he retired.

LiquidSky

Agreed. I was waiting for showtunes to blare on the soundtrack.

davidh777

Yeah, I was going to say he was on the smallish side, but then I thought about the 255. Not everyone is Eric Green.

Red Dog

TheBang

Here's how it went down:

Ryan Storms at gas station gets asked for directions to LAX by snowboarders:

http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...69591350411266

I guess he sticks around for a while and the girls arrive and leave (if you look carefully, you can see his green car still in the background when the girls arrive) and he notices that one of them dropped their passport:

http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...81006119387136

Two Amazing Race super-fans, monitoring Twitter for Amazing Race mentions (trying to follow race progress in real-time) respond to Ryan's tweet and tell him he needs to get the passport to her (original @peachrff tweet deleted):

http://twitter.com/#!/walkingpneumon...85265468653568
http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...86111283625985

Ryan heads off to LAX:

http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...05420789694465
http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...15786093473793
http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...18335299170304

After delivering the passport, Amazing Race producers tell him to stop tweeting:

http://twitter.com/#!/RyanStorms/sta...49506959646720

All the while, Amazing Race producers (already in Taiwan) were monitoring the progress on Twitter also, and informing the crew in LA what was happening:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...g-race-assist/

Ravenous

That I did

I hate when they have a team that shows no effort. Get rid of the old folks who dont compete. And why on earth would those douchebag Jersey Shore wannabees stick around after the first place team and happen to catch the girls in LAST place at the gas station still? The hell was that douche doing?

Cardsfan111

That's some interesting reading, especially hearing that the TAR crew was heading to the airport to go thru with the elimination.

Evan Meadow

In case you guys aren't aware, one of those two showgirls is best friends with Rachel Reily from Big Brother cause she tweeted about her last night.

Howie2000

Even more reason to root for them

Groucho

"Don't judge as stupid because we are beautiful. Judge us as stupid because we do stupid shit."

~~ PAL ~~

These two wandered off all the way to the Taipei Main train station, which was miles off-course. Probably was trying to make their way to the 101 Tower, on the opposite side of town...

Also, despite finishing first, I couldn't believe Cindy uttered "Confusion Temple" while asking for translations. The Chinese school didn't pan out I suppose.

Josh-da-man

How can an Amazing Race producer tell someone (who presumably hasn't signed a confidentiality agreement) to stop tweeting?

gr8vette

They must have signed something as soon as they agreed to be on TV. I think every person who's face they show has to sign a release to be on TV.

Groucho

My wife pointed out something that was never mentioned on the show, but the "Look Up" clue to find the balloon billboard may have had a double meaning: