NASCAR is being very smart here. They sense an opportunity to grab a sizeable chunk of the NFL fan base.
NASCAR should hold all races that take place during the NFL season on Sunday. I have no doubt that NASCAR would kick the NFL’s ass in the ratings and in attendance.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. came out in support of the kneelers.
Amen. Too many fought and died for what our flag and anthem stand for to show disrespect. There are other ways to protest, and what NFL players have done with this taking a knee is not an appropriate action.
I hope the NFL learns a lesson, when the viewership and dollars dry up.
My 84 y/o dad up till now has conflicted in splitting his time between football and NASCAR. He called today to say the conflict has been solved.
**NASCAR Owners Side With Trump: People Who Don’t Stand ‘Ought to Be Out of the Country’**
Amen!
NASCAR wants everyone to forget about the confederate flag thing they pulled and will back Americans this time. They too want it both ways, just like Jerry Jones.
I’d kneel before Danica Patrick. A real cutie and good driver.
From the Sept. 19, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine:
THAT STORY BEGINS, as so many tales in modern American sports do, with Babe Ruth. History records various games in which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played dating from the mid-1800s, but Ruth's last postseason appearances for the Boston Red Sox coincided with the song's first unbreakable bond with the sports world, in 1918. Game 1 of that year's World Series was notable for many reasons...There was also World War I, which blackened everything, including the national pastime. The U.S. had entered the war 17 months earlier, and in that time some 100,000 American soldiers died. Veterans who survived often came home maimed or shell-shocked from encounters with modern warfare's first mechanized mass-killing machines. At home, the public mood was sullen and anxious. The war strained the economy and the workforce, including baseball's. The government began drafting major leaguers for military service that summer and ordered baseball to end the regular season by Labor Day. As a result, the 1918 Series was the lone October Classic played entirely in September.
World War I wasn't the only issue weighing heavily on fans. On Sept. 4, the day before the first game, a bomb ripped through the Chicago Federal Building, killing four people and injuring 30. The Industrial Workers of the World were thought to be behind the attack, a retaliation for the conviction of several IWW members on federal sedition charges...
Although the Cubs festooned the park in as much red, white and blue as possible, the glum crowd in the stands for Game 1 remained nearly silent through most of Ruth's 1-0 shutout victory over Chicago's Hippo Vaughn. Not even the Cubs Claws, the forerunners to Wrigley's Bleacher Bums, could gin up enthusiasm...
With one exception: the seventh-inning stretch. As was common during sporting events, a military band was on hand to play, and while the fans were on their feet, the musicians fired up "The Star-Spangled Banner." They weren't the only active-duty servicemen on the field, though. Red Sox third baseman Fred Thomas was playing the Series while on furlough from the Navy, where he'd been learning seamanship at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...
Upon hearing the opening notes of Key's song from the military band, Thomas immediately faced the flag and snapped to attention with a military salute. The other players on the field followed suit, in "civilian" fashion, meaning they stood and put their right hands over their hearts. The crowd, already standing, showed its first real signs of life all day, joining in a spontaneous sing-along, haltingly at first, then finishing with flair. The scene made such an impression that The New York Times opened its recap of the game not with a description of the action on the field but with an account of the impromptu singing: "First the song was taken up by a few, then others joined, and when the final notes came, a great volume of melody rolled across the field. It was at the very end that the onlookers exploded into thunderous applause and rent the air with a cheer that marked the highest point of the day's enthusiasm."
The Cubs front office realized it had witnessed something unique. For the next two games, it had the band play "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the seventh-inning stretch, to similarly enthusiastic crowds. By Game 3, a bigger crowd of 27,000 was in attendance. Not to be outdone, the Red Sox ratcheted up the pageantry when the Series relocated to Boston for the next three games. At Fenway Park, "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the pregame festivities, and the team coupled the playing of the song with the introduction of wounded soldiers who had received free tickets. Like the Chicago fans, the normally reserved Boston crowd erupted for the pregame anthem and the hobbled heroes. As the Tribune wrote of the wounded soldiers at Game 6, "[T]heir entrance on crutches supported by their comrades evoked louder cheers than anything the athletes did on the diamond..."
Still, the Series' most enduring legacy belongs to a song. Other major league teams noticed the popular reaction to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1918, and over the next decade it became standard for World Series and holiday games. In subsequent years, through subsequent wars, it grew into the daily institution we know today...
Congress didn't officially adopt the "The Star-Spangled Banner" until 1931 -- and by that time it was already a baseball tradition steeped in wartime patriotism. Thanks to a brass band, some fickle fans and a player who snapped to attention on a somber day in September, the old battle ballad was the national pastime's anthem more than a decade before it was the nation's.
-PJ
Let’s seeeeeeee-—
Should I follow Richard Petty’s advice or should I listen to LeBron James???
Not a very tough decision from where I stand.
I wonder how long it will take the NFL to dry up & die when ONLY Black fans & viewers are involved???
White people have had enough of this crap & the insults to our military & our flag.
He gets it.
He knows he’s in the entertainment business.
Yay, NASCAR!!!!
Don’t be so quick: I knew it. Saw this on Facebook around lunchtime.
Guess Junior ain’t so hot after all.
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=96563
I see where Earnhardt Jr sided with the NFL. I hope his sponsors withdraw.
The Left is doing this, and they hope to make a statement to divide America even more. What they don’t realize is that more people will be flocking to Trump.
I LIKE it!
Except for Earnhardt, jr. I hope that jackhole crashes in every future race.
I think I’ll dump Thugball and watch Nascar from now on.
Good for NASCAR!
And think about it — these players are choosing terrorists over pattiotism. BLM is a terrorist organization. I question those players’ citizenship. Best I can tell, they renounced it and affiliate themselves with a fringe subversive group that blocks ambulances during riots.