Last week I sent the following email to the "Jim Rome Show" and he read it on the air.
Rome,
First, I want to apologize to the Gordon fans for the "zona rednecks" who hurled their beer cans at Jeff Gordon's car at phoenix. I have been a race fan since I was 5 and was into Nascar, before "Nascar was cool".
Throwing ANYTHING on a racetrack has NEVER been cool.
Only a wife beater wearing, confederate flag waving, mullet-do, 2 tooth hack would do so. A race fan they are not.
I was never a Dale Earnhardt sr fan.
I am not a Jeff Gordon fan.
However, when the Intimidator finally won his Daytona 500, I was standing and cheering.
The day he died, I cried.
Yes, I have rooted against Jeff Gordon, but I have never hurled a 12 oz. missile at his car.
Yes, I was glad to see him slapped to reality with his divorce, when he lost over 40 mil.
But c'mon, at Phoenix, I thought it was cool, deserving and a great show of respect.
If Junior thought it was cool so should the "Red Nation".
Schmoe in GR
This past weekend, the "zona rednecks" made the trip to Talladega, the capital of the "Red Nation" and all hell broke loose after Gordon won his 77th career cup race and passed earnhardt sr. Again, that is not cool. It's pathetic, moronic and excusable. The solution is an easy one for the track, no more BYOB at the track. Yeh, the fans will be pissed, but the extra security did not help and that would be a logical solution. This had been the only track where it was an issue in the past, Phoenix was the exception last week. I feel for the racefans that get pelted when one of the 12oz missiles don't make it over the fence. Can you imagine a little Jeff Gordon fan get pelted with one of them in the head? Not cool.
see the picture:
http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/opinion/04/30/cross.words.talladega/index.html
Berlin:
The new 4 cylinders at Berlin have been the stars of the show in the first 2 weeks of the season.
The new late model rule needs a couple more weeks, before we can truly pass judgement.
Rome,
First, I want to apologize to the Gordon fans for the "zona rednecks" who hurled their beer cans at Jeff Gordon's car at phoenix. I have been a race fan since I was 5 and was into Nascar, before "Nascar was cool".
Throwing ANYTHING on a racetrack has NEVER been cool.
Only a wife beater wearing, confederate flag waving, mullet-do, 2 tooth hack would do so. A race fan they are not.
I was never a Dale Earnhardt sr fan.
I am not a Jeff Gordon fan.
However, when the Intimidator finally won his Daytona 500, I was standing and cheering.
The day he died, I cried.
Yes, I have rooted against Jeff Gordon, but I have never hurled a 12 oz. missile at his car.
Yes, I was glad to see him slapped to reality with his divorce, when he lost over 40 mil.
But c'mon, at Phoenix, I thought it was cool, deserving and a great show of respect.
If Junior thought it was cool so should the "Red Nation".
Schmoe in GR
This past weekend, the "zona rednecks" made the trip to Talladega, the capital of the "Red Nation" and all hell broke loose after Gordon won his 77th career cup race and passed earnhardt sr. Again, that is not cool. It's pathetic, moronic and excusable. The solution is an easy one for the track, no more BYOB at the track. Yeh, the fans will be pissed, but the extra security did not help and that would be a logical solution. This had been the only track where it was an issue in the past, Phoenix was the exception last week. I feel for the racefans that get pelted when one of the 12oz missiles don't make it over the fence. Can you imagine a little Jeff Gordon fan get pelted with one of them in the head? Not cool.
see the picture:
http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/opinion/04/30/cross.words.talladega/index.html
Berlin:
The new 4 cylinders at Berlin have been the stars of the show in the first 2 weeks of the season.
The new late model rule needs a couple more weeks, before we can truly pass judgement.
1 comment:
Perfect solution. Why can't NASCAR see it? Because it means International Speedway Corp would have to replace all its beer-by-the-can sellers with concession stands equiped with tap dispensers. It's all about the money.
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