Here's My Post from March 3rd
IS NASCAR A SPORT?
Quite an interesting topic that came up at the end of the show today. If you didn't get to listen, shame on you! :) I was listing the top ten Favorite Sports Stars according to a new online Harris Poll. Michael Jordan, of course, was number one. But when I got to # 8, that's when the debate began. Dale Earnhardt, Jr...a legitimate notion that son-of-the-great Earnhardt would be a favorite sports star, at least to me. But someone called to say that NASCAR is not a sport, so therefore Dale being a # 8 favorite is bogus.
NASCAR NOT A SPORT? The hell you say. Do you not have to be physically and mentally fit to do what these guys do weekend after weekend?
Webster's describes a sport as "a source of diversion; physical activity engaged in for pleasure."
Another definition: "an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition."Uh - sounds like NASCAR fits into this category.
Mark Martin explains it this way: "The requirements of a race driver are different than anybody who ever sat on a couch and drank beer and ate potato chips for four hours can imagine. You can't tell someone the difference between driving a car as fast as you're comfortable driving and driving a car faster than it will go. Every driver on the track drives the car faster than the car's capability. There's a little bit there you can get away with - then the next little bit you wreck. When one guy starts doing that, going out there on the edge, then everybody has to do it, if they want to keep up. You're in 130 degree heat, inches away from each other for four hours at speeds up to 200 miles an hour. You have a mental and physical fatigue factor that's incredible. You'll be out of breath to the point that you can't hardly talk you’ll be physically whipped. I'm just as tired now after a race as I was before I started working out, because I drive harder. I spend everything I've got."
Okay, so you don't enjoy watching grown men going 'round and 'round in an overly-sponsored race car for 3 or 4 hours. There's golf you can watch, or football, or basketball, or hockey - er -uh - okay, maybe not hockey. But just because you don't like the sport, doesn't make it "NOT A SPORT."
Quite an interesting topic that came up at the end of the show today. If you didn't get to listen, shame on you! :) I was listing the top ten Favorite Sports Stars according to a new online Harris Poll. Michael Jordan, of course, was number one. But when I got to # 8, that's when the debate began. Dale Earnhardt, Jr...a legitimate notion that son-of-the-great Earnhardt would be a favorite sports star, at least to me. But someone called to say that NASCAR is not a sport, so therefore Dale being a # 8 favorite is bogus.
NASCAR NOT A SPORT? The hell you say. Do you not have to be physically and mentally fit to do what these guys do weekend after weekend?
Webster's describes a sport as "a source of diversion; physical activity engaged in for pleasure."
Another definition: "an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition."Uh - sounds like NASCAR fits into this category.
Mark Martin explains it this way: "The requirements of a race driver are different than anybody who ever sat on a couch and drank beer and ate potato chips for four hours can imagine. You can't tell someone the difference between driving a car as fast as you're comfortable driving and driving a car faster than it will go. Every driver on the track drives the car faster than the car's capability. There's a little bit there you can get away with - then the next little bit you wreck. When one guy starts doing that, going out there on the edge, then everybody has to do it, if they want to keep up. You're in 130 degree heat, inches away from each other for four hours at speeds up to 200 miles an hour. You have a mental and physical fatigue factor that's incredible. You'll be out of breath to the point that you can't hardly talk you’ll be physically whipped. I'm just as tired now after a race as I was before I started working out, because I drive harder. I spend everything I've got."
Okay, so you don't enjoy watching grown men going 'round and 'round in an overly-sponsored race car for 3 or 4 hours. There's golf you can watch, or football, or basketball, or hockey - er -uh - okay, maybe not hockey. But just because you don't like the sport, doesn't make it "NOT A SPORT."
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