Satirical Twitter Account @NBCDelayed Is The Best Part Of NBC’s Olympics Coverage

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

— 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?