OK, I may be
a little biased here, but I get sick and tired of seeing cars go round and round in circles all year long, and hardly getting to see that beautiful pigskin flying through the air. I know for many Americans Nascar has it’s own pastime mystique, but there is so much more tradition to football in my eyes. You look in those stands at an NFL game and all you see is devotion to a team (whoever that may be), but with Nascar it just seems to be a bit dizzying really. Yes, I am aware that teams exist, and everyone has a favorite driver, but it’s not the same. I grew up on football so perhaps that is part of my bias here, but there is so much more in the way of possibility in terms of scheming and planning with football. I’m not trying to say that Nascar doesn’t have it’s own planning and scheming involved, but come on, how much preparation does it take to have a guy that sits behind the wheel of a car going in circles?? Other than the crews that build the cars, and the pit crews that maintain them during a race, I see no further preparation. I would also like to dispel the rumors that Nascar drivers are “athletes”. I understand that they can lose upwards of 10 lbs in a single race due to water release (sweating) and evaporation, but there is a lot more to being an athlete than sitting in a car trying to stay hydrated. Try running up and down a field all day long at full speed smashing your body into that of a 300 pound lineman whilst trying to hold on to an oblong shaped, slippery ball. Now that’s what I call an athlete. It’s someone that can give and take a lot more physically, as opposed to staying hydrated and keeping that wheel pointed to the left all day long. It’s not like REAL athletes don’t have to stay hydrated either!! Maybe I just don’t understand it well enough, especially since there are so many different drivers in so many different series’. But I can’t find myself interested enough to not really ever get into it enough to understand it. That is what makes America great though, is the freedom to choose which sports you love best. Cheer on America!
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-Lazy Idiot-
There is not enough NASCAR these days. Everybody that LOVES NASCAR that comes to this site knows what I am talking about. Like here in Vegas, there is only 1 race a year, but rumor has it NASCAR is going to try to take out 1 of the short track races so they can come out here again this year because of the ticket sales. And again this year, much like last year, the Sunday race sold out!
How can you say that we need more Nascar when the season lasts for 10 months out of the year? That’s great that they are considering taking a short track race out to further promote another race in Vegas, but the fact still remains that Nascar just simply runs too long! The NFL starts the regular season in early September and the Superbowl is played in early February, so by my math, that’s only about 5 months of football. Nascar has decided that it needs to run twice as long?? Not cool!