Feb. 25, 2010: Bill Demong Day

Announcement: We regret to inform you that for the next 24 hours, the term "I had a great day today" has officially been embargoed.

On the same day he won gold (and was named U.S. Closing Ceremony flagbearer), Bill Demong also got engaged.

The reason: U.S. Nordic combined skier Bill Demong has temporarily retired it.

Consider the succession of events that unfolded in Demong's world on Thursday:

1) He won the first U.S. Olympic gold medal in Nordic combined (and showed a rather vicious burst of closing speed in doing so);

2) He was named U.S. flagbearer for the Closing Ceremony;

3) He proposed to his girlfriend;

4) She accepted.

He also learned to play the piano, caught a kid falling out of a tree, helped some elderly women in distress by changing their flat tire, made a perfect ice sculpture, threw a tremendous party (while playing keyboard with the band) and gave a young couple two tickets to WrestleMania.

Wait a second, that was Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, not Bill Demong. Our mistake.

For the record, it is fairly easy to confuse two people named Bill with six-letter last names, especially when they both happen to have authored a day that's just about too good to be true.

-Matt Stroup