NASCAR
Jay is sitting over at
firelane17.com running his mouth about Nascar. He thinks it is a dumb sport. Dumb sport? Let me desribe a dumb sport to you... how about a bunch of guys running around in shorts carrying a big stick with a little net on the end trying to catch and throw this little ball into a goal? To simulate this yourself, find a broom and duct tape a salad bowl on the end. Pick up a baseball and use your broom contraption to wing that little ball directly at the groin region of your opponent. Congratulations, you are now a lacrosse player. Don't worry if you've never heard of it. There are approximately 5 lacrosse fans in the entire world. Now compare that to Nascar. Nascar brings in close to 200,000 fans for a single race. TV ratings for Nascar are growing by leaps and bounds and are often rated as the highest watched Sunday sporting event. Sponsors pour in millions of dollars. In Nascar you've got guys strapped into race cars with over 800 horsepower running around a track at speeds you can only imagine within inches of the cars around them. You've got rivalries between different drivers and sometimes even feuds between teammates. And if one of those on track feuds just happens to get a little out of hand, you'll see thousands of pounds of metal flying through the air and careening around the track like balls on a pool table. Sure if you're a lacrosse player, you might just see cars going around in circles. To the astute observer it's much much more. But you did get one thing right Jay and that is how I watch Nascar. I plop myself down on the sofa with a bottle of beer, watch the first 50 laps, fall asleep, and wake up for the last 50. Sounds like a good Sunday afternoon to me. So Jay, wanna go see the Nascar IMAX movie with me in a couple weeks? :)