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Slap Fight!
Sorry, nothing like the fights of the ‘good ole days’.
(Actually, nothing like the sport of the ‘good ole days’ for that matter.)
Good race, too bad NASCAR like hockey and basketball and baseball have too long of a season, the stands looked half empty.
Slap Fight!
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When they made the sport about the drivers instead of the cars, it was all over.
The series should be about Ford v. Chevy v. Dodge v. Plymouth v. Chrysler. Useless to even think about it.
Burton would take him... no contest.
Their championship format has killed my interest in watching.
The reason for fan apathy is that just three drivers are dominating the series, and not a one of them has the star quality of Richard Petty or Dale Earnhardt.
- JP
I don’t know anyone that watches NASCAR, and I live in Tennessee. I have tried to watch it, but a horde of corporate clones driving a couple hundred laps in an oval just can’t hold my interest. It’s kind of like poker on TV... I just don’t see the appeal.
Ha. I was flipping through the channels and landed on that one just as the wreck happened. After the fight I actually got a little interested in the race. Then later not so much. Then I turned it off.
Nascar bores me. driving around in circles for hours on end is not entertaining for me.
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?
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.
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!
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.
NASCAR is scripted BS.
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.