Although this commentary is about the drop in attendance at certain NASCAR events, broadcasting productions could be driving away television viewers.
I don't think I have ever been exposed to so much guano as is proffered by the inane, useless and boring threesome panel shows, and stuck on stupid driver and crew interviews. Add to that the obligatory vacuous female on the infield, and the inane race commentary that won't ever measure up to the quality and genuineness of those good old boys that commented during the early days of televised racing. There is just something real phony about the over accented country speech patterns from the NASCAR race commentators who think that need to constantly run their motor mouths to be effective.
....bottom line, NASCAR won't ever just let 'em race. It's now about marketing, hype, and personality.
They lost me a long time ago.
This made me laugh as I have a friend who is googoo-gaga over NASCAR and he's so metro. Hey, this may be as close as he ever gets to guys with grease under their fingernails.
"Hand me that 14mm with a 3/8ths, 20" extension, will ya?"
"Did that boy just faint?"
"Here you go".
"Who are you, you're kinda cute".
"I'm his girlfriend, you car jocks don't intimidate me."
"You've never been around 800 horsepower."
"I've never been around 'eight' anything."