nascar sucks
"As some of you may know, there's an American election comming up, and if you're an American or watch American TV you are innondated with adds on the subject.
Anyway the new target voters this year are the so called "Nascar dads". You know, guys who watch Nascar and had sex at least once.
Am i the only person who thinks this sport is dumb? It reminds me of a hamster on a hamster wheel just running in circles over and over.
I'm not trying to offend any American poster here, but c'mon, it is not a sport."
- from some random forums
no, you're not alone. an unnamed former roommate put a nascar poster on our door and we were quick to rip it off, tear it in half, shred the pieces, and incinerate them all.
nascar SUCKS. that is all
actually, that isn't all. this entire year espn has been promoting nascar like mad, and it's been hailed as the new, revolutionary sport that is supposed to be mainstream in the next few years. the fear among non-hick sportsfans everywhere is that nascar will actually meet with success now that they're on such a big carrier. espn has made primetime shows out of sports you wouldn't think would become mainstream. they brought and1 to the forefront with streetball, brought boxing back with the contender (carrying it after it's debut on nbc), has its own quiz show in stump the schwab, and even brought videogames to popular society with madden nation. most notable among espn's accomplishments are the x-games, and probably their biggest success since sportscenter, the world poker tour series, which spawned a revolution that is still growing by the day. spike tv has had tremendous success with UFC fights and had limited success with slamball, and the new ion channel is carrying bodogfight. and if vince mcmahon can convince an international network to carry the xfl, it seems unlikely that nascar, which has been around for nearly 60 years, will meet with failure.
nielsen media research has shown a trend that over the past five years, nascar's yearly revenues have gone up.
but that raises the question: if nascar has been around for so goddamn long, how is it that it's only becoming a mainstream thing now? because it's fucking stupid, that's why. who the hell wants to watch people driving around in a circle 500+ times??? rednecks, that's who. people wonder why the south is stereotypically believed to be uncultured, uncultivated, and uneducated - just look at the shit they watch. watching a track and field race is different. watching someone run in circles during a 5k race in the olympics is watching a test of the human spirit, endurance, and the limits of the human mind. yes, nascar has some parallels in that it's very difficult to control a car going 180 mph and they have to drive so many fricking laps that nascar drivers become as physically taxed as real athletes. but the difference is that the driver is controlling a machine, something that does not require them to reach into the inner depths of their soul to give them a kick in the last 100 meters. all nascar drivers can do is put the pedal to the floor and hope their engine (which are limited by restrictor plates) can put out more than the other guys'. sure, there are strategies like drafting and sometimes teamwork, but the same goes in track and even in tour de france.
the only good thing about nascar
the one thing nascar has going for are 1. the crashes, which aren't worth watching an entire race to wait for, and 2. that it's like football; it's a purely american sport. baseball, which is always bullshittedly touted as "america's pasttime" is now full of immigrants (legal and otherwise) who can't even speak english. you listen to reporters interviewing baseball players and many times you can't understand a single fucking word they're saying. unfortunately, nascar is a sad reflection of america's relation to the world. most (if not all? sorry, i don't follow the sport enough to verify this) cars driven in nascar are american-made and display how our cars compare to international ones. whereas in GT races you see porsches, toyotas, mazdas, nissans, hondas, vws, beemers, and even MINI COOPERS winding around tight curves at tracks like laguna seca (or in rally or motorcycle racing where american vehicles are rarely featured). our cars are shown to be fast, but completely unagile, and nascar shows the world how "simple" we are. instead of complex curves requiring incredible reaction times, cunning timing, and lots of balls, we have people driving around in an oval.
i mean, seriously. would you rather watch someone driving this piece of shit:
or this beauty:
nascar is for idiots
nascar sucks
Anyway the new target voters this year are the so called "Nascar dads". You know, guys who watch Nascar and had sex at least once.
Am i the only person who thinks this sport is dumb? It reminds me of a hamster on a hamster wheel just running in circles over and over.
I'm not trying to offend any American poster here, but c'mon, it is not a sport."
- from some random forums
no, you're not alone. an unnamed former roommate put a nascar poster on our door and we were quick to rip it off, tear it in half, shred the pieces, and incinerate them all.
nascar SUCKS. that is all
actually, that isn't all. this entire year espn has been promoting nascar like mad, and it's been hailed as the new, revolutionary sport that is supposed to be mainstream in the next few years. the fear among non-hick sportsfans everywhere is that nascar will actually meet with success now that they're on such a big carrier. espn has made primetime shows out of sports you wouldn't think would become mainstream. they brought and1 to the forefront with streetball, brought boxing back with the contender (carrying it after it's debut on nbc), has its own quiz show in stump the schwab, and even brought videogames to popular society with madden nation. most notable among espn's accomplishments are the x-games, and probably their biggest success since sportscenter, the world poker tour series, which spawned a revolution that is still growing by the day. spike tv has had tremendous success with UFC fights and had limited success with slamball, and the new ion channel is carrying bodogfight. and if vince mcmahon can convince an international network to carry the xfl, it seems unlikely that nascar, which has been around for nearly 60 years, will meet with failure.
nielsen media research has shown a trend that over the past five years, nascar's yearly revenues have gone up.
but that raises the question: if nascar has been around for so goddamn long, how is it that it's only becoming a mainstream thing now? because it's fucking stupid, that's why. who the hell wants to watch people driving around in a circle 500+ times??? rednecks, that's who. people wonder why the south is stereotypically believed to be uncultured, uncultivated, and uneducated - just look at the shit they watch. watching a track and field race is different. watching someone run in circles during a 5k race in the olympics is watching a test of the human spirit, endurance, and the limits of the human mind. yes, nascar has some parallels in that it's very difficult to control a car going 180 mph and they have to drive so many fricking laps that nascar drivers become as physically taxed as real athletes. but the difference is that the driver is controlling a machine, something that does not require them to reach into the inner depths of their soul to give them a kick in the last 100 meters. all nascar drivers can do is put the pedal to the floor and hope their engine (which are limited by restrictor plates) can put out more than the other guys'. sure, there are strategies like drafting and sometimes teamwork, but the same goes in track and even in tour de france.
the only good thing about nascar
the one thing nascar has going for are 1. the crashes, which aren't worth watching an entire race to wait for, and 2. that it's like football; it's a purely american sport. baseball, which is always bullshittedly touted as "america's pasttime" is now full of immigrants (legal and otherwise) who can't even speak english. you listen to reporters interviewing baseball players and many times you can't understand a single fucking word they're saying. unfortunately, nascar is a sad reflection of america's relation to the world. most (if not all? sorry, i don't follow the sport enough to verify this) cars driven in nascar are american-made and display how our cars compare to international ones. whereas in GT races you see porsches, toyotas, mazdas, nissans, hondas, vws, beemers, and even MINI COOPERS winding around tight curves at tracks like laguna seca (or in rally or motorcycle racing where american vehicles are rarely featured). our cars are shown to be fast, but completely unagile, and nascar shows the world how "simple" we are. instead of complex curves requiring incredible reaction times, cunning timing, and lots of balls, we have people driving around in an oval.
i mean, seriously. would you rather watch someone driving this piece of shit:
or this beauty:
nascar is for idiots
nascar sucks
posted by KTrain at 2:30 PM
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