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An unexpected fight could be exactly what NASCAR needed (Jeff Gordon - Jeff Burton Fight)
CNN ^ | November 7, 2010 | Bruce Martin

Posted on 11/08/2010 8:12:30 AM PST by tlb

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To: tlb
The last time Gordon tried to start a “fight”, he went after a helmet-less Kenseth while keeping his own helmet on. He's a nancy-boy.
21 posted on 11/08/2010 8:59:35 AM PST by Niteranger68
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To: Haiku Guy

Your right, they fight like girls or baseball players, shoving, pushing etc. Now, Hockey players, that’s a fight


22 posted on 11/08/2010 9:00:44 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: alancarp

Burton did handle him after being surprised initially.

Nancy-boy is lucky the officials were there.

Burton was fixin to open up a can on him...


23 posted on 11/08/2010 9:04:18 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Well, I wouldn’t exactly call that sweet science but more of a brawl.

I watched that race live and the brawl did add some excitement that is still talked about today, some 30 odd years later.


24 posted on 11/08/2010 9:11:42 AM PST by biff
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To: tlb

I believe a good fist fight maybe 10 years or so ago would have helped Jeff Gordons image.
Lots of folks still think Jeff is gay.
Nice wife, but hey, so is Charlie Crists new wife and it hasn’t helped him at all.
Charlie Crist is a fag, Is Jeff Gordon?


25 posted on 11/08/2010 9:12:20 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Get out of our house and take your big ass wookie bride with ya)
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To: alancarp

And, to add insult to injury, Nancy’s team went over to the 48 pit to a driver who could do something with a good pit crew.

Maybe they should switch teams permanently.

Ouch!


26 posted on 11/08/2010 9:28:20 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: tlb
A lot of folks who aren't long-time NASCAR fans may not know this, but much of NASCAR's popularity in recent years can be traced to a unique combination of circumstances that pushed it into the national spotlight -- pretty much by accident.

The event I'm thinking of was the 1979 Daytona 500, which was held in mid-February that year and was the first Daytona 500 to be broadcast on national television. CBS carried the race almost as an afterthought -- really just to fill their weekend sports programming in a dead period on the sports calendar after the end of the NFL season and before the NCAA basketball tournament in March and the start of the Major League Baseball season in April.

NASCAR and CBS didn't expect to attract too many viewers that day, but they lucked out when television ratings across the board were abnormally high as much of the Northeast and Midwest was blanketed by the infamous "Presidents Day Blizzard" of 1979.

That Daytona 500 race went down as one of the most exciting auto races in history, and ended with an amazing scene on the final lap, with race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough bumping each other several times before crashing into the wall and ending up wrecked on the infield. Richard Petty went on to win the race, and an argument broke out at the scene of the wrecked cars between Allison and Yarborough, Donnie Allison's brother Bobby stopped his car at the scene and joined the fracas, and a brawl broke out among the drivers.

A huge portion of the TV audience was watching a NASCAR race for the first time, and a lot of these people became die-hard fans because they just assumed every NASCAR race was like that. Stock car racing became a big-time sport on that day, and has never looked back.

27 posted on 11/08/2010 9:37:19 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Yep, I’ll never forget watching that race. I still sort of follow nascar...I drink a glass of milk as the green flag flies, fall asleep, and wake back up for the last 50 laps or so.


28 posted on 11/08/2010 10:03:09 AM PST by DJlaysitup
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To: tlb
. . . there are some in the garage area who believe fan apathy has played a role as drivers became too corporate, too mindful of the reaction from sponsors and team owners.

It's all that and more. As a former NASCAR fan, the races all became boring and predictable but, the worst thing was that the NASCAR organization kept trying to fix something that wasn't broke . . . . . until they broke it!!

Worse, with all of the requirements on car specs such that they all have to be virtual replicas of each other, the races became more reminiscent of the old IROC series than anything of NASCAR. IROC was boring because all the cars were mechanical duplicates. The theory was good, but the implementation was horrible!

29 posted on 11/08/2010 10:10:32 AM PST by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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IMO, NASCAR’s loss of following is in part because they insist on putting the last 2/3 of the season, including The Chase on the TV channels which are paid for.

Many retirees no longer can afford such extras. Therefore, that following is being marginalized & lost.


30 posted on 11/08/2010 10:35:53 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Smokey Yunick was a hero back then!””

One year, Smokey spent the winter building a 7/8 size car. Everyone at Daytona kept looking at it & not seeing what he had done.

That is when the manufacturer’s templates came into use.

It was a beautiful car—just 7/8 size.


31 posted on 11/08/2010 10:38:51 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: biff

David Pearson & Cale Yarborough at Daytona, while Petty pushes in his clutch while sliding thru & makes it to the finish line?


32 posted on 11/08/2010 10:41:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

David Pearson “

ooops

Donnie Allison


33 posted on 11/08/2010 10:43:13 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: tlb
Unexpected? Like the ones in TV Wrestling?

NASCAR is scripted BS.

34 posted on 11/08/2010 10:52:18 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (If exercising the right to free speech invites violence, then girls in short skirts invite rape.)
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To: tlb

Current race car drivers fight like baseball players,....meaning they can’t fight. most NASCAR drivers save for Kyle Busch come up with a silver spoon.

It was like watching two girls push each other.


35 posted on 11/08/2010 11:09:27 AM PST by lakewood man
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To: ridesthemiles

He was such a kick! Soaking body panels in acid to make them thinner and lighter. Using thinner glass for the same reason. What a blast!


36 posted on 11/08/2010 11:20:38 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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"Maybe they should switch teams permanently."

Whoops!

Johnson to use Gordon's crew for rest of season

I must be psychiatric or something! :-)

37 posted on 11/08/2010 6:38:14 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
One can do wonders with little suggestions from the bleachers. Of course, this probably helped, too:


38 posted on 11/08/2010 10:55:51 PM PST by alancarp (Please don't tell Obama what comes after "trillion")
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