TV report: Is NASCAR crumbling?

[Summer time]

Bozo wrote:

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yep - those funny cars look like they just came off the showroom floor!

But BOZO They have been that way for 20 years !!! and they ALL Don't have the EXACT SAME SHAPE SIZE ETC...COT's ARE JUST COOKIE CUTTERS with Different Decals....It Cost More to Park than to Buy a Ticket at Daytona Sat Nite and the Place was Still 1/3 Empty..."IF YOU GOT TIME TO TURN, THEN YOU AIN'T GOING FAST ENOUGH"

[Vance1]

NASCAR crumbling?

Hell Yea
Who wants to watch asian cars race
I don't.......Period!

[shadowavx]

it's just boring. unless they have crashes every half hour we're watching pretty boys drive their fast cars around-and-around-and-around until we puke...

even the so called anger they express about getting cut off or bumped is pathetic. give em guns and let's see some road rage.

that'll get er dun!!

hell, let em drink some cold bud while they is drivin too. let's make this like real life drivin.

[Hussie]

Preston2 wrote:

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Despite what a reporter said, Earnhardt is hardly even known outside of the USA, while athletes like Tiger Woods and David Beckham are known globally.
Earnhardt is certainly up there, top 10 sure, but #1? No way.

Tiger Woods is limited in marketability, as no golfers I know will buy his crap "Made in China" goodies...
Beckham has become quite the over-priced embarrassment for California, now hasn't he?...The ONLY soccer fans out here are of the "ILLEGAL alien" persuasion, and they aren't rooting for Beck's, or buying his shit either...
Dale Jr IS marketable worldwide...ANYTHING he touches sees dramatic sales increases...The article I posted is not from some yokel reporter who grew up in the backwoods, it's from a recognized sports business analyst, one whose definitely crunched the numbers...

[Preston2]

call it like I see it wrote:

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You gave me a link that's 5 years old. LOL.

Nothing has changed in 5 years, that article is as correct today as it was the day it was written.

NASCAR drivers ARE athletes and race car driving IS a sport.

I have the dictionary to back me, while you only have your petty disdain. You lose.

[Preston2]

jay wrote:

those who want to blame obama for NASCAR crumbling obviously dont see the real problems of nascar and to why old fans dont watch anymore...
ITS BORING!!!
the races dont start til later in the afternoon anymore, where they used to start noon or one in the afternoon. restrictor plate racing keeps cars bunched and thus the races are the same every week.

Only 4 of the 37 races use restrictor plates.

jay wrote:

TOO many races. TOO many boring races. usual same winners every week, that gets old.

12 different drivers have won Sprint Cup races this year, and the season is only half over.

Your standard criticisms don't seem to hold water.

[Preston2]

ProudAmerican wrote:

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Why do you feel that way about Nascar? What has it done to you? I can understand the smoking,but why do you care about Nascar...if you dont like it dont watch.
Why dont you humor us with what you enjoy in life?

At some point "live and let live" turned into "*I* don't like it, so *you* shouldn't do it."

People are so judgmental.

[Preston2]

Bozo wrote:

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yep - those funny cars look like they just came off the showroom floor!

ROFL!

Beautiful.

Hi, Mr. Car Dealer? I'll take one of these.

http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/inst...

Thanks.

[Preston2]

Hussie wrote:

<quoted text>Tiger Woods is limited in marketability, as no golfers I know will buy his crap "Made in China" goodies...

With all due respect to your number crunching reporter and all of the golfers you know, the world disagrees with you.

http://sportsmarketingbiz.wordpress.com/2007/...

http://www.businessweek.com/table/07/0926_pow...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22473574/

http://www.sportsbusinessradio.com/node/846

Tiger is king.

[call it like I see it]

Preston2 wrote:

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Nothing has changed in 5 years, that article is as correct today as it was the day it was written.
NASCAR drivers ARE athletes and race car driving IS a sport.
I have the dictionary to back me, while you only have your petty disdain. You lose.

You can stick your dictionary and your opinion up your arse. The word "Ain't" is in the dictionary too. Doesn't mean it's correct to use when you speak, does it ?
You're really good at trimming posts to answer only what you want to. How about addressing the idiocy of calling Tony Stewart an athlete. You've ducked that twice now. He's an out of shape load of junk food crammed into a fire suit. You know it, and so does he. He said it himself before the race on Saturday.

[smokerocks]

call it like I see it wrote:

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You can stick your dictionary and your opinion up your arse. The word "Ain't" is in the dictionary too. Doesn't mean it's correct to use when you speak, does it ?
You're really good at trimming posts to answer only what you want to. How about addressing the idiocy of calling Tony Stewart an athlete. You've ducked that twice now. He's an out of shape load of junk food crammed into a fire suit. You know it, and so does he. He said it himself before the race on Saturday.

these drivers ARE athletes... it takes concentration, stamina.. endurance and strength to drive a race car for hours in heat.. and if you saw Tony is person,, you would not think he was overweight.. I do believe the TV adds pounds.. he looks GREAT in person..

[smokerocks]

If they would have had double file restarts all along,,, NASCAR would not have had the past 2 years of semi boring races, letting the leader pull away... now the double file restarts have fixed that.. this is good racing.

[call it like I see it]

smokerocks wrote:

<quoted text>these drivers ARE athletes... it takes concentration, stamina.. endurance and strength to drive a race car for hours in heat.. and if you saw Tony is person,, you would not think he was overweight.. I do believe the TV adds pounds.. he looks GREAT in person..

So then explain to me why his reply to "Why don't you climb the fence after a win anymore?" was "I'M TOO FAT AND OUT OF SHAPE. I'M AFRAID I WON'T MAKE IT".
Is that because of TV too ???? Face it, you can only be so "athletic" when you're sitting down.

[Carolyn]

Hussie wrote:

<quoted text>Tiger Woods is limited in marketability, as no golfers I know will buy his crap "Made in China" goodies...
Beckham has become quite the over-priced embarrassment for California, now hasn't he?...The ONLY soccer fans out here are of the "ILLEGAL alien" persuasion, and they aren't rooting for Beck's, or buying his shit either...
Dale Jr IS marketable worldwide...ANYTHING he touches sees dramatic sales increases...The article I posted is not from some yokel reporter who grew up in the backwoods, it's from a recognized sports business analyst, one whose definitely crunched the numbers...

Are you positive that Jr.'s merchandise is all made in the USA? Better go check and see what it says on the stuff you have bought.

[Ski]

smokerocks wrote:

<quoted text>these drivers ARE athletes... it takes concentration, stamina.. endurance and strength to drive a race car for hours in heat.. and if you saw Tony is person,, you would not think he was overweight.. I do believe the TV adds pounds.. he looks GREAT in person..

You are correct...TV does add pounds.
But so do cheese burgers.

[right turn only]

Too little too late. NASCAR has run the gamut and is sliding downhill ..... fast.
Too much dependance on sponsorship during a bad economy. Fans not throwing money around like in past years on foolishness.

[Hussie]

Carolyn wrote:

<quoted text>Are you positive that Jr.'s merchandise is all made in the USA? Better go check and see what it says on the stuff you have bought.

Never said it was...However, I'd rather buy anything Jr, no matter where it's made than risk lives using some 9 Iron that was "Made in China" because it says "Tiger Woods" on it...

[Callin it straight]

Hussie wrote:

<quoted text>Never said it was...However, I'd rather buy anything Jr, no matter where it's made than risk lives using some 9 Iron that was "Made in China" because it says "Tiger Woods" on it...

With as lousy as he's doing, your gear should be getting REALLY cheap !

[Carolyn]

Hussie wrote:

<quoted text>Never said it was...However, I'd rather buy anything Jr, no matter where it's made than risk lives using some 9 Iron that was "Made in China" because it says "Tiger Woods" on it...

Contradicting yourself, aren't you? You said no golfer would buy Tiger Woods' crap that is made in China. Sure sounds like you are so sure that everything Tiger uses is made in China.

[american]

Did you see the back stretch stands at Daytona. Completely empty except for one or two fans. Somebody must have had bad gas to clear out that many seats.