Those who've read my meager effort here over the years know that I stopped watching/going to NFL games when this Kaeperpick nonsense started. This upcoming season will be my fifth year of blowing the NFL off.
To that, we can now add the corporate moralists of NASCAR.
NASCAR, which has taken an anti-gun stance, can now add support of the terrorist group #BlackLivesMatter to their stable.
Yesterday, they announced they were banning the Confederate flag... much like Germany has banned the Nazi flag.
So, at a NASCAR race, you can BURN an American flag... but, By God, you had better not have evidence of a Confederate flag anywhere on your person, let alone on your car.
Further, Bubba Wallace, driving for Petty Racing, actually had a terrorist paint-scheme on his car the whole race. A Black Lives Matter car. a car with the name of a group prominently displayed all over it, a group that advocates the killing of police officers.
I was an actual Wallace fan. I wanted him to succeed and was disappointed that the best he could do for a job was a mediocre, underfunded team like Petty. I want minority drivers like Wallace, Daniel Suarez and the like to do well and to come into the sport in larger numbers.
But in NASCAR, how much do you want to win = how much do you want to spend. And face it, The big, 3 and 4 car teams that consistently win all the time do so because they've got the money.
But the bloom had been peeling back from that particular rose for quite some time. Cookie cutter cars that all look pretty much the same without the wraps on them (Those cars are typically not painted, but instead literally have a vinyl wrap on them) engines and drivetrains simply unavailable at the dealers.
Parts that have no resemblance to the cars they claim to be: Camrys, Camaros and Mustangs.
Most of the engines are built by 2 or 3 builders and have precisely zero stock parts or resemblance to the manufacturer's engines. Pop open the hood on a NASCAR Toyota, and there's nothing there that looks anything like a Toyota Camry.
And that's but a symptom of the NASCAR disease.
A few weeks ago, Chase Elliot was in a position to win a race when he was deliberately wrecked by Kurt Busch.
That sort of thing happens all too frequently.
In fact, watch this video of "NASCAR's Greatest Pay Backs." You'll hear Kurt Busch's name mentioned frequently as he wrecks others before Chase over his career. The radio voices you hear are "spotters" communicating with the car... their main purpose being to tell the drivers when they're clear of the car in front of them.
A guy named Ryan Newman, who was also in a position to win his race, was also deliberately wrecked by Ryan Blaney earlier this year.
The claims in both races were that the drivers who caused these crashes, with decades of experience and spotters on top of the track to tell them when they are clear of other cars, made "mistakes."
Weird that they never seem to make these mistakes in, say, the first part of the race.
Blaney, as most fans know, almost killed Newman. And NASCAR, with their typical incompetence, failed to tell anyone viewing if Newman was even alive for quite some time... demanding "privacy" for Newman.
Well, if he had been killed, his "privacy" would have been permanent.
Meanwhile, guess what happened to Blaney or Busch for causing what easily could have been deadly wrecks?
If you guessed "absolutely nothing," you win!
The failure to protect drivers from predatory driving had me teetering on the brink: This idiocy shoved me over.
Here's the thing: these people are all entitled to their opinion. But they are not entitled to ram THEIR opinion down MY throat.
Their job will never be to tell me what to think, do or say. And no, their politics isn't the thing. If they were cheerleading for Donald Trump, I'd feel the exact... same... way.
They are DRIVERS. Not great philosophers, statesmen, or particularly well known for their genius on events taking place on the world stage.
I don't CARE what they think. I also do not want to HEAR what they think.
See, I watch sports for a few reasons, but none of them are political or moral.
I don't give a damn what YOUR morality or politics are: attempting to program me with it is not your job and not your specialty or field of endeavor. And NASCAR suddenly sprouting a corporate conscience is as sickeningly pandering as the Speaker of the House kneeling in THIS get up yesterday:
That looks... and is... ridiculous.
NASCAR's efforts are no different.
So, along with the NFL, Women's Soccer, Gillette and Camping World, I can now add NASCAR.
I've flown around the country; spent thousands and thousands of dollars attending the 8 or so races I've been to.
But no more. No more races. No more swag. No more tickets. No more TV. No more talking heads providing cover for those causing near-fatal wrecks for which they received zero punishment of any kind, while their lower level colleagues (Infinity Races and Truck races and so forth, all under the auspices of NASCAR) are, at a minimum, suspended for doing the same thing.
No more support of an organization where if you SAY the wrong thing, you're gone... but if you almost KILL someone? Nothing to see here... move along.
No more support of an organization that proudly displays THEIR support of a terrorist group that wants to kill police. No more kneeling by NASCAR officials, which is about as absurd as it can get.
Do whatever the hell you want, OFF the track, before and/or after every race.
But keep your fricking politics out of my face.
Hopefully, at some point, the mental midgets running NASCAR will get the message from the empty seats once they start allowing people in... and their horrific TV ratings.
But it's too late for me.
I.
Am.
Done.
To that, we can now add the corporate moralists of NASCAR.
NASCAR, which has taken an anti-gun stance, can now add support of the terrorist group #BlackLivesMatter to their stable.
So, at a NASCAR race, you can BURN an American flag... but, By God, you had better not have evidence of a Confederate flag anywhere on your person, let alone on your car.
Further, Bubba Wallace, driving for Petty Racing, actually had a terrorist paint-scheme on his car the whole race. A Black Lives Matter car. a car with the name of a group prominently displayed all over it, a group that advocates the killing of police officers.
I was an actual Wallace fan. I wanted him to succeed and was disappointed that the best he could do for a job was a mediocre, underfunded team like Petty. I want minority drivers like Wallace, Daniel Suarez and the like to do well and to come into the sport in larger numbers.
But in NASCAR, how much do you want to win = how much do you want to spend. And face it, The big, 3 and 4 car teams that consistently win all the time do so because they've got the money.
But the bloom had been peeling back from that particular rose for quite some time. Cookie cutter cars that all look pretty much the same without the wraps on them (Those cars are typically not painted, but instead literally have a vinyl wrap on them) engines and drivetrains simply unavailable at the dealers.
Parts that have no resemblance to the cars they claim to be: Camrys, Camaros and Mustangs.
Most of the engines are built by 2 or 3 builders and have precisely zero stock parts or resemblance to the manufacturer's engines. Pop open the hood on a NASCAR Toyota, and there's nothing there that looks anything like a Toyota Camry.
And that's but a symptom of the NASCAR disease.
A few weeks ago, Chase Elliot was in a position to win a race when he was deliberately wrecked by Kurt Busch.
In fact, watch this video of "NASCAR's Greatest Pay Backs." You'll hear Kurt Busch's name mentioned frequently as he wrecks others before Chase over his career. The radio voices you hear are "spotters" communicating with the car... their main purpose being to tell the drivers when they're clear of the car in front of them.
A guy named Ryan Newman, who was also in a position to win his race, was also deliberately wrecked by Ryan Blaney earlier this year.
The claims in both races were that the drivers who caused these crashes, with decades of experience and spotters on top of the track to tell them when they are clear of other cars, made "mistakes."
Weird that they never seem to make these mistakes in, say, the first part of the race.
Blaney, as most fans know, almost killed Newman. And NASCAR, with their typical incompetence, failed to tell anyone viewing if Newman was even alive for quite some time... demanding "privacy" for Newman.
Well, if he had been killed, his "privacy" would have been permanent.
Meanwhile, guess what happened to Blaney or Busch for causing what easily could have been deadly wrecks?
If you guessed "absolutely nothing," you win!
The failure to protect drivers from predatory driving had me teetering on the brink: This idiocy shoved me over.
Here's the thing: these people are all entitled to their opinion. But they are not entitled to ram THEIR opinion down MY throat.
Their job will never be to tell me what to think, do or say. And no, their politics isn't the thing. If they were cheerleading for Donald Trump, I'd feel the exact... same... way.
They are DRIVERS. Not great philosophers, statesmen, or particularly well known for their genius on events taking place on the world stage.
I don't CARE what they think. I also do not want to HEAR what they think.
See, I watch sports for a few reasons, but none of them are political or moral.
I don't give a damn what YOUR morality or politics are: attempting to program me with it is not your job and not your specialty or field of endeavor. And NASCAR suddenly sprouting a corporate conscience is as sickeningly pandering as the Speaker of the House kneeling in THIS get up yesterday:
That looks... and is... ridiculous.
NASCAR's efforts are no different.
So, along with the NFL, Women's Soccer, Gillette and Camping World, I can now add NASCAR.
I've flown around the country; spent thousands and thousands of dollars attending the 8 or so races I've been to.
But no more. No more races. No more swag. No more tickets. No more TV. No more talking heads providing cover for those causing near-fatal wrecks for which they received zero punishment of any kind, while their lower level colleagues (Infinity Races and Truck races and so forth, all under the auspices of NASCAR) are, at a minimum, suspended for doing the same thing.
No more support of an organization where if you SAY the wrong thing, you're gone... but if you almost KILL someone? Nothing to see here... move along.
No more support of an organization that proudly displays THEIR support of a terrorist group that wants to kill police. No more kneeling by NASCAR officials, which is about as absurd as it can get.
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| NASCAR Official paying homage to the #BLM terrorist group. |
Do whatever the hell you want, OFF the track, before and/or after every race.
But keep your fricking politics out of my face.
Hopefully, at some point, the mental midgets running NASCAR will get the message from the empty seats once they start allowing people in... and their horrific TV ratings.
But it's too late for me.
I.
Am.
Done.
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