Curling

Sushi says: I fell into the Olympic trap today and watch about an hour and a half of curling. I got the general idea of how the game works, but it ended with me still being clueless about the scoring. My thought - while I watched was...who came up with this game? Who decided to have a giant bulleyes and slide large round objects across the ice trying to hit it and knock the other teams "rocks" out of the circle? Why do they call them rocks? Fascinating game, but rather strange!