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I automatically tune out comercials......so I missed that one.

The people selling ads should realize how annoying most of them are which means they don't sell a thing. Less is more as far as commercials go. Why don't they just say "We're big race fans and we don't want to interrupt the action...so please buy "our product". Thank you and please excuse the interruption!!

The most annoying of all are the Move On, Vonage and the guy selling the cleaner stuff that always yells. I can't believe he's been yelling like that for years and must be succesful.

This is really funny...........

The groundbreaking for the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Thursday was full of emotion and racing legends and lasted more than an hour, which probably is enough time to build something.
Before the building begins, let's hope NASCAR is true to its past and to its fans.

When I look at a rendering of the building, I see wings, which is fine. But the wings I want to see have chicken on them. Eat `em and throw `em. If NASCAR has a food group, this is it.

H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president of Lowe's Motor Speedway, once told me that when archeologists stumble upon the site that was his race track, they'll see millions of little bones and conclude that race fans were really, really small.

Before I reach a wing, I want moonshine. NASCAR has the most interesting roots in sports. I love the stories about Junior Johnson and the fellows running away from revenuers on those twisting mountain roads, engines big and courage bigger.

They were good criminals. They'd fill those cars with illegal hooch and deliver it to flatlanders who were tired of light beer, umbrella drinks and chardonnay. When the boys finally came down from the mountains for keeps, they still had those big cars and the ability to drive them.

So they raced. Now that is how you start a sport.

As a testament to the outlaw past, I want the hall to provide a secret concession stand. While everybody else orders light beer, umbrella drinks or chardonnay, I give the bartender the secret code -- "Junior sent me" -- and get a glass of hooch. I don't want a glass. I want a jar. Cover it with a paper bag if you have to. Ever notice drinks covered with a paper bag taste better?

The rendering of the hall is stunning, all sweeping curves and gleaming glass. So, tell me the building created in downtown Charlotte the last decade that doesn't gleam. We need life. We need the hall to be as big and brash and loud as the sport it represents.

When the groundbreaking finally concluded, one fan tilted his head and yelled, "Whooo!" I want him to feel the same when the hall opens in late 2009 or early 2010.

I want controversy. I want to see illegal parts and illegal additives and I want an entire wing devoted to the uncanny success of the Lowe's driver at the Lowe's track.

I want fans to be able to afford to take their family. To help them, I'd offer discounts.

If your driver won the previous week, and you can prove it by wearing his colors and passing a test about him at the door, you get in for half price.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/16549594.htm