Goodbye NASCAR, I hardly knew ye
Twenty years ago we were hard-core NASCAR fans. But after the death of Dale Earnhardt, they killed the golden goose. The product became cookie-cutter corporate cut-out drivers in cookie-cutter cars going around cookie-cutter 1.5 mile tri-oval tracks to set up the inevitable green-white-checker scripted finish.
We gave up our tickets and viewing in 2008 and have not gone back. We are not alone; I saw about two minutes of the Bristol race last week while channel surfing. Empty seats galore where 20 years ago you had to fight to get in.
good bye Camping World
I told them Sayonara when I learned they’d scrubbed all racetracks and facilities of anything that resembled a Confederate flag. And I’m an old redneck Yankee. I have a feeling our Dixie brethren won’t cotton to the idea much, either.