I was 100 percent against Nik Wallenda’s high-wire walk across a side pocket of the Grand Canyon last week.
In fact, I was appalled by the very thought of it — right up until the moment that I (along with 13 million others) turned on the Discovery Channel and watched the whole thing.
OK, I’m a hypocrite.
There was something morbid, but ultimately fascinating, about watching a guy walk a quarter of a mile on a 2-inch cable suspended above a rock canyon, just a leg cramp away from becoming a bloody pile of compound fractures.
I was amused at some of the news reports the next day that mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that Wallenda prayed during the walk. As anyone who watched the stunt knows, the entire 22-minute-plus crossing was a continuous, urgent prayer. Somebody noted on Twitter that he said “Jesus” 61 times.