bubbrubbhoya
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Post by bubbrubbhoya on Feb 12, 2007 17:54:30 GMT -5
OK, so ESPN has apparently decided that Nascar is bigger than Around the Horn and PTI. They gave 5-6 to the new show, NASCAR Nation. That's right, 1 freaking hour of Nascar drivel instead of their two best shows. This is crap. Watch out sports fans, rednecks are...ON THE MARCH!
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 12, 2007 19:21:19 GMT -5
You would be amazed at how many NASCAR fans there are. I think it's the fastest growing "sport" in America. I am not a fan of NASCAR but since you feel free to disparage all who are by using the word "redneck", I wonder what other categories of people it's permissible also to disparage. Not picking on you particularly, Bubb, but it always amazes me how many people on thie board look down their noses at others who have different interests or come from different locations in the country.
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bubbrubbhoya
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Post by bubbrubbhoya on Feb 12, 2007 19:49:52 GMT -5
Actually, I kind of agree with you easyed. I think you are pointing out (correctly) just one of the many examples of the hypocrisy of the tolerance mafia. Subscribing to the, "Think globally, act locally," credo of this very PC crowd, I fight it the best way one man can by being non-discriminatory in my discrimination.
As for my denigration of rednecks, this could be taken as a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as my day today consisted of attaching a plow to the truck in order to clear the farm of this weeks snowstorm, so that I can give hay to the horses. Some would call this the domain of the hick or redneck, but I prefer "Gentleman Farmer." I report, you decide.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Feb 13, 2007 13:02:44 GMT -5
37 million viewers for last year's Daytona 500.
The only sport that outdraws NASCAR for TV viewers is the NFL.
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Post by The Stig on Feb 13, 2007 15:23:42 GMT -5
37 million viewers for last year's Daytona 500. The only sport that outdraws NASCAR for TV viewers is the NFL. .... in the US. Forget being the biggest sport, NASCAR isn't even the biggest racing series in the world. By pretty much every standard Formula One dominates. The most recent F1 race (the Brazilian Grand Prix) had a total TV audience of 154 million people. That's even more than Super Bowl XL had (151 million). |
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on Feb 13, 2007 15:51:27 GMT -5
37 million viewers for last year's Daytona 500. The only sport that outdraws NASCAR for TV viewers is the NFL. .... in the US. Forget being the biggest sport, NASCAR isn't even the biggest racing series in the world. By pretty much every standard Formula One dominates. The most recent F1 race (the Brazilian Grand Prix) had a total TV audience of 154 million people. That's even more than Super Bowl XL had (151 million). Like any other country matters  |
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VelvetElvis
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Post by VelvetElvis on Feb 13, 2007 17:49:42 GMT -5
My people have reached out to the four-letter network and sources confirm that this is temporary (this week). That would explain why Wilbon did the Chat House from Phoenix yesterday. Cat's got impeccable timing considering what I see when I look out my window!
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Feb 13, 2007 19:36:19 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv?
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Cambridge
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Post by Cambridge on Feb 13, 2007 21:41:27 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv? The chance of catching a glimpse of McBricks passed out beside the Clorox company tent on the infield? |
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Post by The Stig on Feb 13, 2007 22:28:13 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv? You get to see what happens. It's like following your favorite basketball team - you watch all the away games on TV to see how your team does. With racing, pretty much every race is an away game. I follow Formula One racing, and that series only has one race a year in the US. So if I want to know what happens in the other 16 races I have to watch them on TV. It's not the same as going to the race in person, but it's better than not seeing the race at all. I just hope that people don't think that NASCAR is indicative of all car racing. NASCAR is Redneck Derby - real racing involves turning left AND right. |
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FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Feb 13, 2007 22:39:19 GMT -5
Non-
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Rednecks
Not that I didn't spend a number of afternoons in college rooting for Jeff Gordon to Edited off my southern roomate...
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Post by VictorSkyPage on Feb 14, 2007 10:20:21 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv? Not only is it hard for me to understand that.. but watching any sort of analysis of this "sport" seems absolutely ridiculous to me... especially considering a good amount of the info that ESPN is forcing onto its viewers is given by Brad Daugherty |
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Post by TigerHoya on Feb 14, 2007 11:17:32 GMT -5
I can't get through a whole race anymore on TV. I liked it a lot when I was in HS and there's a dirt track in my hometown. You haven't heard anything horrible until you listen to NASCAR on the radio.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Feb 14, 2007 14:15:56 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv? You get to see what happens. It's like following your favorite basketball team - you watch all the away games on TV to see how your team does. With racing, pretty much every race is an away game. I follow Formula One racing, and that series only has one race a year in the US. So if I want to know what happens in the other 16 races I have to watch them on TV. It's not the same as going to the race in person, but it's better than not seeing the race at all. I just hope that people don't think that NASCAR is indicative of all car racing. NASCAR is Redneck Derby - real racing involves turning left AND right. NASCAR is the ultimate 'highlight' sport. They race for what 400-600 miles. Which takes the better part of an afternoon, right? And sprinkled in there among the hours and hours of coverage are a few crashes (which may or may not be shown live, so you might just end up watching replays of them anyway), maybe a few nice passes and a TON of left turns by cars all going really fast. Why not just catch the highlights of the race on sports center? You'll see all of the exciting stuff and don't have to spend an entire afternoon parked on the couch. At least Formula 1 drivers are ambi-turners. |
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Post by SFHoya99 on Feb 14, 2007 20:20:15 GMT -5
I can understand the lure of going to a race, but can any racing fan of any type explain to me the lure of watching on tv? The chance of catching a glimpse of McBricks passed out beside the Clorox company tent on the infield? Nah. I can see that pretty much any weekday. |
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FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Feb 15, 2007 2:09:46 GMT -5
Wait, p-i-s-s is edited now? Now it sounds like I would do something weird to my southern roomate...
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HoyaFanNY
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Feb 15, 2007 6:54:53 GMT -5
casilius definitely has a face for radio...he looks like mel kipers little brother with that hair
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Post by VictorSkyPage on Feb 20, 2007 16:40:44 GMT -5
still sick of this...
the advertising is incessant and it will only grow more annoying and frequent from here on out
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bubbrubbhoya
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Post by bubbrubbhoya on Feb 20, 2007 21:23:44 GMT -5
Wait, p-i-s-s is edited now? Now it sounds like I would do something weird to my southern roomate... Wow, thanks for posting this. I was really wondering why you wanted the whole world to know your sick/weird habits. Now I see it was just a big misunderstanding. Phew! But seriously, why is "p-i-s-s" prohibited? This isn't the FCC is it? |
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