Throwback Thursday: Mary Carillo explains 'backyard' badminton

With Mary Carillo currently calling the Serena Willams-Timea Bacsinszky French Open semifinal on NBC, we couldn't help but remember her brilliant explanation about the differences between Olympic badminton and the backyard variety, of which we are all familiar, during the 2004 Olympics.

Backyard badminton, you know, the game with the tree-seeking shuttlecock, red rubber ball, nine footballs, a garden hose, and Christopher Burr--"always Christopher Burr"--chucking rollerblades around.

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