1  Bread and circuses with beer and pretty wimmins!

 

2 Y'all got that right, boy!

Sarah Palin's gotta work on that big-hair thang, though...

3 What, you mean no Tiger Woods Press Conference thread?

Thank you.

4

Tiger's on.  Doing well.  That has to be difficult.

 

So let's get back to the golf now!

5 Baseball > NASCAR

(If NASCAR's a sport, machine quilting is a sport.)

6

Fast cars and fast women.

Is there a better combination?

7 One word...

Potholes.

You're frgiging 'Super Bowl' was stopped for 2 hours by a POTHOLE.

8 Spoke to those who are losing money because of him.  Nice that he acknowledges that.

9

Men's figure skating = NASCAR  in terms of entertainment.

Be honest Jack, if you couldn't drink during nascar then you wouldn't watch it.

Olympic Ice hockey, downhill skiing, and the one where they shoot the gun are good, the rest of it is junk. But Nascar is all junk

10 Anyone know the over-and-under on the amount of cliches Tiger tosses out during his presser? Or what the first one might be?

11 Nascar = Fail. Not enough booze could keep me interested in someone driving in circles for hours. Sorry Jeff Gordon you are NOT an athlete. If so, so is that grandma with the poofed-out perm that has been making the block for the past 20 mins.

12 If skateboarding and rollerblading aren't summer olympic sports, then why are snowboarding and skating in the winter olympics?  Answer:  Because the winter games are ghey.

13 The Olympics are a joke, the Winter ones even more so. Anything that relies on the scores of judges to determine a winner is not a sport. They add more meaningless sports every year. They should just change the name toto The Great Circle Jerk To Determine Who Gets The Sponsors Contracts and be done with it.

14

Most of my buddies are huge NASCAR fans and I've tried getting into it but what annoys the hell out of me is the points system and the fact that nobody seems able to explain to me how it works.

I likes me some fast cars and badass driving but the scoring system seems needlessly complicated.

15

Hockey>Football>Baseball>Basketball>Soccer/NASCAR>whatever it is Gabe does in his bedroom.

 

In that order

16 Ditto Jack, I haven't watched a second of the O-limp-dicks. How bout the little ballerina-skater that feared for his life cuz the fur-munchers were threatening him??? Most MEN would seak those fuckers out and take care of buisness themselves...I have no patience for this shit, we have the feminist to thank for this.   

17 @ 6 If NASCAR's a sport, machine quilting is a sport.

Amen, Heather -- Amen.

It's amazing to me that somehow it's, like, the biggest insult in the world to some people that their activity of preference not be considered a sport. Fistfights can break out over such designations.

18 I'll give you downhill skiing, and possibly hockey (If you're Candian or something).  Those are ok.  But seriously, when is Opening Day?

19 You know what else would be cool..if NASCAR's most popular driver could actually, I don't know, win a race.

Dale Jr. has been the most popular driver for how many years running?

Why do NASCAR fans love an also ran so much?

20 (And this would be the time of year for college basketball, if my alma maters didn't suck since 2002.  Sigh.)

21

I hate the Winter Olympics.

A to the Men!

I swear to all things holy my tv was about to spontaneously combust with all the flaming male figure skaters last night. And they didn't air the Office which really sent me into fits.

I dunno about NASCAR but I will say this:

March Madness > Winter Olympics

22 Evidently you have seen the Danish Curling Team's uniforms.

Put me in my bunk.

23 Radish, you and I >>> same wavelength...

24 "Be honest Jack, if you couldn't drink during nascar then you wouldn't watch it." The drinking is a feature, not a bug. Like Mint Julips at the Kentucky Derby. Which, big, goofy, Kentucky Derby hats aside, is also a way cooler event than the Winter Olympics.

25 Driving in a circle for hours. And hours. And hours. I like fast cars and hot women.. but the problem is I like them both a lot better when I'm in them, not watching some other dude.

26 Yeah, but Ace likes him some of that men's figure skating.

27 I got into NASCAR when King Richard and Cale Yarborough were in their primes, and more or less stuck with it through the mid-80s when Bill Elliott was mopping up the track with everyone else. Got kinda busy after that.

28
Is this Shitty 'Sports' Topic Day on AoSHQ or something?

29 Why do NASCAR fans love an also ran so much?

Posted by: DrewM. at February 19, 2010 11:09 AM (9B5OK)

Dead Daddy. Plus the sponsors. Sponsors want a consistent return for their ad money so they keep propping the same people up. It's true from entertainment to sports.

30

NASCAR would be better if they played by the rules of the great Sega game "Road Rash".

Things that could make NASCAR entertaining

1)Allow the drivers to shoot at each other

2)Have an old female asian drive in the race just to spice things up and increase the likelihood of an accident

3)Make the drivers sing musical numbers they wrote about their car(a la Grease Lightning)

feel free to add your own

31 Skeleton is bad-assed.

32

Is this Shitty 'Sports' Topic Day on AoSHQ or something?

Sorry, you favorite pastime of table tennis ain't gettin' no love.....

33 It ain't a sport unless there is a potential for death involved.

34 Driving in a circle for hours. And hours. And hours.

I like fast cars and hot women.. but the problem is I like them both a lot better when I'm in them, not watching some other dude.

Posted by: Jollyroger at February 19, 2010 11:10 AM (or6Aq)

Tis true. Car racing  is akin to pron. Either you like to watch other people doing it or not.

35 NASCAR has the best announcers in television. The women announcers in NASCAR ask intelligent, relevant questions. The women in football should be scorned repeatedly. How many times can these twits ask, "how does winning(........) make you feel?" They project "token." Idiots.

36 I'll be honest. I am biased against baseball. Our team here is about to start its 18th consecutive losing season. We do have one of, if not the nicest park in the league, too bad our team is so god freaking awful.

37 One problem with the Olympics is that they've allowed the bad parts of the stupid X-Games (stoners on snowboards) in, while leaving some of the better parts (snowmobile racing) out. And then there's the ice dancing...but that's another thing entirely.

38 NASCAR Cup Racing is just IROC on steroids now.




But I still watch.

39 Tony "Smoke" Stewart for the win, baby!

Dead.  To.  Me. 

40 It's amazing to me that somehow it's, like, the biggest insult in the world to some people that their activity of preference not be considered a sport.

Isn't it?  I acknowledge it takes talent, hard work, and physical endurance (and a buttload of money) to reach the top levels, same as machine quilting and Scrabble, but apparently that's not good enough.

41

Skeleton is bad-assed.

2 man skeleton is is badder in the ass.

42 Tiger's on.  It's excruciating.  It's making me twitchy. 

43

As a kid I liked the winter games just because there was more suspense involved: the Americans had to do more than just show up to in most events.

I still don't care to watch most of it, but I don't watch any NASCAR.

I do respect NASCAR for not having separate men's/women's events at least. . . .

44

It's amazing to me that somehow it's, like, the biggest insult in the world to some people that their activity of preference not be considered a sport.

Isn't it?  I acknowledge it takes talent, hard work, and physical endurance (and a buttload of money) to reach the top levels, same as machine quilting and Scrabble, but apparently that's not good enough.

didn't one of the drivers in nascar get caught using meth during a race?

45 30
Is this Shitty 'Sports' Topic Day on AoSHQ or something?

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 19, 2010 11:11 AM (fx8sm)

Ditto...let resume our regulary scheduled programming of O-bamba bashing,

how bout a bloody-red meat C-PAC thread??

46 NASCAR is shiny objects going in circles...

...yeah, that's a sport.

47 Allow weapons to be mounted on the cars, and I'll watch for sure!

48

#32  feel free to add your own

Allow souped-up monster trucks on the track.

49 @37 Except, porn is way more awesome than NADSCAR.

50 Hey, I met Tony Stewart once.  Got a pic with him.  Nice guy.  Has a couple of turds in his posse.

51 36 It ain't a sport unless there is a potential for death involved.


Life is a full contact sport.  Playing is not optional, biotch!

52

Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks

53

my biggest complaint about the Winter games is that is seems to have been co-opted by X Games evernts.

Snobo-cross, half pipe, etc.

Give me the old down hill skiing, the ski jump, hockey, decathalon, and snowman building.

54 @50 Nascar is the ultimate sport for cats. Now only if they could add string to the cars somehow...

55

It ain't a sport unless there is a potential for death involved.

Which is precisely why MMA blows everything else out of the water.

56 The biathloners should throw javelins,   at each other.

57 I am a victim of my own fame. Please pity me and leave me alone.

I mean it! I'll tell!

58   54 @37
Except, porn is way more awesome than NADSCAR.

Posted by: Jollyroger at February 19, 2010 11:16 AM (or6Aq)

Now your on to somthing...BJ's & 3-ways at 200mph...that must see TV.

59 Tiger should have hired Ari Fleisher for this rollout.  He's got the money.  Why not go with the best?

60

I'll be honest. I am biased against baseball. Our team here is about to start its 18th consecutive losing season.

So, how is Pittsburg?

Pittsburgh is fine, other than the Pirates. The Pens are going to repeat and getting a brand new arena next season, and as long as we have Ben Roethlisberger the Steelers will be highly competative.

However I do have about 2 feet of snow outside that I would like to get rid of.

61

Men's ice skating. Flaming Fags on ice. Ugh.

BTW, will the libtards try to use Palin's appearnce at Daytona to prove she is an elitist? Makes as much sense as most of their bullshit.

62 The Winter Olympics lost me when they jobbed Tonya Harding.

63

Pitchers and Catchers report.

Posted by: Mallamutt at February 19, 2010 11:14 AM (V9SYy)

--Hello?!

64

Ben has out himslf as a Pirates fan. So, you're the one?

 

Car racing is a skill, not a sport. Any activity that a fat white guy can do is not a sport. Golf, bowling, driving a car at 190 MPH while balancing a beer on the driveshaft.

65

 dananjcon

so what you saying is they should film sex going on inside a car while going at 200 miles per hour.

interesting...

66 Another problem with NASCAR...way too much of it.

Does the world really need two 500 miles of 'racing' a Pocono? How boring are most of these 1.5 mile tracks?

Meh, cut 1/3 of the schedule and put more events on short tracks and super speedways and you might have something.

67 I watched the whole Tiger presser.  Yeah, I know, but I was folding laundry.  To tell the truth, I thought he did well.  His apology to the parents of the kids who looked up to him hit home.  Our boy took a special interest in golf (for a little while) when Tiger won the Masters.  The person I felt for the most was his mother in the front row.  God, I can only imagine the pride her only child brought her, and then the unbelievable shame. 

Anyhow, I was checking him out for scarring from any possible Scandi attacks, and didn't see any.  And he said Elin never hit him.  Hmmm.  Not buying it.  Still, as sex addict pressers go, I guess this one went okay.

68 I tried to watch a couple minutes of Snowboarding. Man, is that crap lame. Biathlon would be great if they used real rifles instead of those robo-rifles. Anyway, I tried.

69

Ben, good to know I'm not the only suffering Buccos fan on here.

But we do have the Pens.

I could do without the Olympics entirely.  A World Cup of Hockey every 4 years and I would be fine.

The Olympics are one big human interest story and humans to not interest me.

I think Hockey should do something like a World Baseball Classic, I think that is a good idea. Let the amateurs play in the olympics.

 

70 whats wrong with you? winter olympics are 100x more entertaining then the summer ones

71 So he read a statement written by a PR crisis intervention team and he read it way too late after the fact.  Don't really think the fans or the sponsors are willing to forgive him.  Some guy on the radio is saying he was "fighting back the tears"...I didn't see that, I saw someone reading a prepared statement and saying "get out of my face while I try to clean up my life and get back to golf and the money".   

72 You're CRAZY!

I love the winter Olympics.  Although I agree with you about skating.

I love the Downhill.  And Short track.  And c'mon the Bobsled.  Any event that gets four grown men to push a sled down an icy shute at 90 miles an hour has my vote.

The Nordic jump.  Those guys are crazy...

It's awesome!  

73

Pitchers and Catchers report.

Here we are!

74

Baseball is boring as hell.  Decent postseason, but worth sitting through 162 games of masturbatory nods, signals, and swinging outside the batter's box?

Speed that shit up and I may watch a regular season game or two.  I do like it in person, though: lots of opportunities for bio-breaks and beer refills.

75 Heh.  Richard Petty wears mom jeans.

76 .  And c'mon the Bobsled.  Any event that gets four grown men to push a sled down an icy shute at 90 miles an hour has my vote.

If they had to do the same track in a toboggen I would be all for it.

77

Driving in a circle for hours. And hours. And hours

 

It ain't a sport unless there is a potential for death involved.

 

I agree 100%.

It's a shame that NASCAR has sucked all of the air out of the room and has left Drag Racing gasping for its last breath.

4000 horsepower motors burning fuel at the rate of 20+ gallons per mile, shooting flames 10' in the air, running 1200' in less than 5 seconds?

If you're bored with this, you're in a coma.

 

78 Pitiable.

79

Olympics would be better if we went back to the way the greeks did it.

Oiled up and naked.

80 Mallamutt beat me to it Ben.  By the way Mallamutt, Pittsburg has an h on the end!

Ben, I moved to Baltimore and now we are getting ready to have our 14th consecutive losing season.  I used to love baseball but being a Pirates and Orioles fan is brutal. 

As far as the winter olympics goes, I agree with whoever doesn't like the X games bullshit that has crept in.  Half pipe snowboarding is just fucking winter skate rats!

81 Mortis, when does Elizabeth show up to defend hockey?

82 I love the Olympics too.  Don't love the way NBC is presenting them.  Don't like the fact that a lot of the venues appear to not be up to par.   It's not fun to watch the best in the world slip down a mountain cause they have to contest the event on schedule.  It's not fun to see the figure skaters fall or the speed skaters coaches' protest the conditions on the ice causing an hour long break.  The Olympics are only fun for America when we win.  When we aren't winning people lose interest.

83

I think Hockey should do something like a World Baseball Classic, I think that is a good idea. Let the amateurs play in the olympics.

That's a sweet idea.  I personally dig the WBC.

How can you go wrong mixing Nationalism and sports? Really?

84 New Facebook post from Palin on global warming as the snow job that it is.

85 If you're bored with this, you're in a coma. Dr we have a code blue here...charge the paddles!

86

You know, "The Mea Culpa" could be both a summer and winter olympic competition.

I give Tiger an 8.736 on that one.

87

In light of the fatal luge accident, all bobsleds, luges, and skis will be fitted with speed-restricting devices.  A lesson they learned from NASCAR.  And perhaps professional wrestling.  Not that there's much difference.

But yeah- the only reason the 84 different ice-dancing events are considered a "sport" is that it draws a lot of women and gay viewers.  Speed skating?  Sport.  Figure skating?  Not a sport. 

And how did curling make the cut?  A game played by approximately 19 people worldwide deserves an olympic event?

88 By the way Mallamutt, Pittsburg has an h on the end!

Everyone knows I am a horrible speller. Type way too fast and was trying to post while talking to Mrs. Mallamutt about her mother. Yeah - gonna stayed focus on that conversation. Unless I hear the words "moving in to live with us" I just kinda nod through it.

We Pittsburghers are a bit sensitive about the h. 

89 Those who say NASCAR racin' isn't a sport have never tried it. Trying to get a race car around a speedway at top speed on a hot day requires strength and skill. I've tried it....

I admit that whole scene lost a lot of interest for me when Dale Earnhardt died. He was the last of the old-time no-quarter-given experts at using the "chrome horn" (that's a bumper for you effete followers of teh ghey sports) and, despite his press, a likable guy. It only got worse when the move away from any resemblance to actual street cars was legislated out.

But it is a sport, folks. When the tide turns and we see real Fords and Shivolays dukin' it out on the superspeedways and short tracks again, it'll still be a sport.

Curling? Not so much.

90

I agree complete-f'n-ly

The American syndicate BMW/Oracle WON the 33rd America's Cup races bringing the Worlds' oldest sports trophy back to the US.

But did the sports media mention it? NOOOOOOO. F'n unitards and F'n Hans Brinker wannabes got all of the headlines.

Larry Ellison is my hero.

91

Hedhog. Yeah, you've got it worse because there isn't much else to root for in Baltimore.

As for the pirates, i have given up on them. As long as the MLB is run the way it is they will never be good. There is no incentive for teams like the pirates to be good. Thanks to revenue sharing, they could not sell one ticket and still make 6-9 million dollars a year.

If they were run more like a free market where everyone had to abide by the same rules(salary cap), they would become a more competative team.

92 Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 19, 2010 11:29 AM (rf03a)

I challenge you to watch curling just once and not get addicted.  Curling got popular when the Olympics really weren't good one year and the curling team emerged as well, spectacular.

93

Pitchers and Catchers report.

 

"Now which one of us is which?  Should we flip a coin?" 

"I call tails!"

"That's fine, I like heads better..."

94 I think the Olympics could be improved by some EPIC poetry. 

95

FOOTBALL > NASCAR

They drive around in a fucking circle for hours wasting gas, never make a right turn, ocassionally crash, and act like it's something that doesn't happen on any one of the Dead Man's Curves in the country.  

Fuck NASCAR. I'd rather watch a sandlot T-ball game.

96 I ♥ the Winter Olympics!

97 Ben it's all the Nuttigs fault!!  As far as the Orioles, at least I get to see the Yankees and Red Sox come in a few times per year.

Baseball is ruined and that is sad!  Oh, and fuck all you Yankees fans!

98 Sarah Palin>NFL>NASCAR>Men's Compulsory Figures>Bowl Championship System. That's all for today. You can all go home now.

99 I wouldn't have NASCAR up my ass.

100

It's not fun to see the figure skaters fall or the speed skaters coaches' protest the conditions on the ice causing an hour long break.  The Olympics are only fun for America when we win.  When we aren't winning people lose interest.

You mean people watch figure skating for reasons other than watching them fall down???  I think NBC should edit coverage of figure skating to only include video of the ice-dancers falling on their ass.  It might actually be tolerable to watch.

101 It was so weird to see Tiger Woods without the baseball cap.  He's kind of ordinary looking without the cap.  Why are so many Joe's in the news...Joe the plumber, Joe the plane guy, Joe he vice president....

102 Mallamutt, I wish I could share your optimism.  I'm sure that the Angelos clan will fuck this up somehow. 

I have a friend who works for the O's and can go whenever I want free...haven't taken him up on that yet.

103 NASCAR smascar. Real men race unlimited superbikes throuth Isle of Man.

104 Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 19, 2010 11:34 AM (rf03a)

I score it in my head while I'm watching it, you don't?

105

Unless I hear the words "moving in to live with us" I just kinda nod through it.

 

Trust me, you'll never hear her lips utter those words, and then one day you come home, and presto, Thelma's sitting in your recliner and she's not just "visiting for a spell."

106 Problem with the Winter Olympics is the tv coverage.  It is targeted towards women, and it really, really shows.  That and all the X Games crap. 

107

I think naked womens figure skating would be a big draw.

108 Mallamutt, fuck Eldrick Woods too!

Oh, and don't let your kid read my post and he won't be offended.

109 I remember when Nadia Comaneci performed, I barely gave a crap then.  Now I care orders of magnitude less.

110 Meh, cut 1/3 of the schedule and put more events on short tracks and super speedways and you might have something.

It'd still be a snooze.  Put more events on road courses, however, and I might bring myself to watch it every now and then.  Make'em brake and turn right every now and then.

MotoGP > Formula One > Supercross >> NASCAR.

111 hahahah a caller to Beck is calling him "narcissistic"....hmmm who else is narcissistic?

112

I was following the race off and on Sunday. When I got in the car around 7 or so, turned on Sirius 128 - I was surprised at the drivers now changing lead, they were nowhere in the top ten prior. So it was an exciting finish after the pothole delays.

Watched Shawn White last night on NBC, he's great. I like snowboarding as an Olympic event.

113

Posted by: Gunslinger at February 19, 2010 11:25 AM (Zi+FQ)

NHRA & NASCAR rule.................Indy Car Racin, not so much except for the Indy 500.

114

As for the pirates, i have given up on them. As long as the MLB is run the way it is they will never be good. There is no incentive for teams like the pirates to be good. Thanks to revenue sharing, they could not sell one ticket and still make 6-9 million dollars a year

 

I'mma gonna let you finish, I'mma gonna let you finish and all, but we've got the best revenue sharing program in teh world!  And it's pretty much risk free! 

115 124

I think naked womens figure skating would be a big draw.

I'd actually prefer the naked men's pairs "skating."

116

I challenge you to watch curling just once and not get addicted.  Curling got popular when the Olympics really weren't good one year and the curling team emerged as well, spectacular.

I think I'd rather watch interpretive chicken sodomy on ice.

Sweeping up dust with a broom is also pretty popular, but that doesn't mean it deserves an olympic event.  But sweeping imaginary dust from the path of a rock being slid down the ice does?

117 "The one important moment they have spawned in the last 30 years (The Team USA's "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Commies) is just barely worth the 1000's of hours devoted to televising men in sequined unitards skating to contemporary versions of classical music. "

Important life lesson:  Never hassle anyone who can jump higher than your head with steel blades strapped to their feet.  I'm just sayin'....

118

I never really became a NASCAR fan but I don't begrudge those who enjoy it.

...

On the other hand I will kick you Winter Olympics bitches all day long.

119 Ya, and I got to use "orders of magnitude" in a blog post, biotch!

120 This Scandi hate will not stand.

What's next?  Hating on fair skin people?

121 whats wrong with you? winter olympics are 100x more entertaining then the summer ones

Is that you, Amy Bishop?

122 "123 Problem with the Winter Olympics is the tv coverage.  It is targeted towards women, and it really, really shows.  That and all the X Games crap. 

Posted by: brak at February 19, 2010 11:36 AM (W5NBA)"

affirmative action worked so well that they are now lobbying for affirmative action for white males.   But, you may recall it was women who are credited with deciding our elections now too.  Not a good balance anymore.  One group should not be more powerful than another.

123 1!

124 My son in law is a rabid drag racing fan.  Absolutely hates Nascar.

125

My favorite Olympic sport to participate in is obviously the Double Luge!  (But I have to be the driver.)

126 I'll be honest. I am biased against baseball. Our team here is about to start its 18th consecutive losing season. So, how is Pittsburg? I thought he was in Balmer. Pitchers and Catchers report. Posted by: Mallamutt at February 19, 2010 11:14 AM (V9SYy) --Hello?! Posted by: Castro District and DuPont Circle at February 19, 2010 11:21 AM (rI0GJ) Bwahaha! They call it the fruit loop for a reason!

127

yeah, what 118 said, why go in circles for hours?  jump on a sportbike and toss in rock walls and twisties, MOTOGP baby!!!  the isle of mann is the true man test

and for the yankees comment?  fuck all the teams in both leagues!!  yeah, i said it... it the year Da CUBBIES go all the way!!  All The F'ing WAY!!!

128 oh now that is interesting.  Beck and company are saying that accenture was the first sponsor to drop tiger so they couldn't understand why the apology had to be done today.  They said the rumor is that accenture is running a golf tournament now and he might have been trying to upstage it with the apology.  Ugh that would be so calculated, so horrible, hope the rumor is false.

129

Having misspent my youth beneath the hoods of many cars, I find nothing more satisfying that cranking up an engine that you've built with your own two hands and listening to it idle. It's all the better if it's a high performance engine that will still barely idle at 1600 rpm.

Open Hooker headers. Hurst shifters. High-rise aluminum intake manifolds. Gigantic Holley carburetors that you could drop a golf ball into.

Grunt! I'll be in my bunk.

130 NASCAR is unwatchable. If I want to see a bunch of guys have car trouble I'll just head over to the highway overpass and look down. Calling Daytona a 500 mile race is a joke. It's a 495 mile clusterfuck leading up to a five mile restart race in which the winner is determined almost purely by accident.

131

They said the rumor is that accenture is running a golf tournament now and he might have been trying to upstage it with the apology.  Ugh that would be so calculated, so horrible, hope the rumor is false.

Upstage?  That could only get them ratings and money.

132

The winter olympics definately needs a serious overhaul.  They had it on at work here yesterday, and I'm watcing these folks "compete".  The competition?  First they ski, then they shoot, then they ski some more.  It was like watching grass grow.

Want a real event?  Have those guys ski, and have somebody else shooting at them.  Now that's entertainment.  Bet you'd set some serious speed records getting through that course as well.

Ice dancing?  Are you serious?  Try that crap in ancient greece and some hoplite would ram a spear through your gut.  Come to think of it that might be a good way to jazz up that event, goodness knows theirs enough SCA geeks out there who have just been clamoring for an olympic event of their own for years.

 

133

I  seen Richard Petty race at Riverside Raceway CA when he was the King.  He didn't have a good car that day.  It was running on about 7 1/2 cylinders.  Riverside was a road course with a long straight away and some crazy S turns.  Every lap 2 or 3 cars would pass him on the straight but when they got to the turns he would gain the positions back.  It took lots of laps for the leaders to get past him. When he'd get to the S turns he would slam 3rd gear and floor it.  He went thru them proabaly 20mph faster than every one else.  He looked completly out of control but did the same thing every lap.  It was the greatest race car driving I have ever seen.  That man could drive a race car.

Just thought I'd Share...

134 Jack,

This is why I would never go out with you.

Olympic hockey is so much more interesting than a bunch of cars going around in circles.

You're childish obsession with this so-called 'sport', combined with your awful poetry and stalker tendencies really doesn't add up to an attractive package.

135

and the hottie babes who love them both.

now come on, lets be serious, hottie babes?  you can count all the teeth on all the women there on one hand.  NASCAR chicks are just harley chicks missus the cash to buy a bike

136 It's always good to have a thread once in a while that flushes out the weirdos who like anything to do with Winter.

Winter blows.  Every single aspect of it.  Cold, colorless, lifeless, interminable.  It's nothing more than an annual simulation designed to help you prepare for death and not struggle so much when your card is punched.  "At least there won't be androgynous freaks wearing glitter and sequins prancing around in barely-there spandex on the other said", you'll say to yourself.

But hockey would still be unwatchable even if they painted the ice to look like South Beach.

137 any sport where the Cubs are pathetic losers is fine by me

138 Ice dancing isn't as bad as synchronized swimming.  

139

152  You're childish obsession with this so-called 'sport', combined with your awful poetry and stalker tendencies really doesn't add up to an attractive package.

can i try?

hockey is the suck

nascar is the sport for men

i'm outside your house

140 156 Ice dancing isn't as bad as synchronized swimming.  

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 19, 2010 11:49 AM (Z+kpn)

Take into account who is saying that...

141 Just went to John Batchelor's site.  He had some silent video up that he was encouraging all his listeners to watch.  The site is gone.  They send you to "go daddy".  how odd.

142 Womens Figure Skating > NASCAR. I can fap to womens figure skating. NASCAR on the other hand has no redeeming value.

143 The Yankees.  The best team 200 million can buy.

How anyone can be a fan of a team that is basically a meat market is beyond me.

144 hey the synchronized skaters are fighting to bring their sport to the Olympics, saw a piece about them the other day.

145

155  sir, the cubs ARE NOT pathetic losers

^{(well yeah they are but....)}

for the record, since obama is a white sox fan, all good conseratives should be cubs fans just to spite him

146 "(The Team USA's "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Commies Finland)"

FIFY

147

Fast cars and fast women.

Is there a better combination?

Fast cars, younger fast women and older whiskey.

148

_{Pitchers and Catchers report.}

_{Posted by: Mallamutt at February 19, 2010 11:14 AM (V9SYy)}

That's the announcement they made just before the final round of men's figure skating last night.  (Although, to be fair, only the American ice-capaders were swishing about the building -- the Japanese guys and the Russian who got robbed after landing two quads seemed quite butch.)

NTTAWWT

149

The miracle on ice game was awesome though.

Not just because of the politics or because we beat the commies, it was really a kickass hockey game too.

150

Sarah Palin likes NASCAR

Keef Overbite likes Football. 

Draw your own conclusions...

151 Actually there is a NASCAR and winter Olympics connection. The bobsleds used not only by the Americans but several other countries are made by the former NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine. A couple of years after he got involved in the making of the sleds the Americans became a force to be reckoned with.

152 92 Mortis, when does Elizabeth show up to defend hockey?

She just got home from shopping, so she's missed this wonder of a thread.

She's going to bust some skulls though.

Never underestimate the power, skill and death wish of a pregnant lady-warrior-queen.

153 Remember, we are the evil empire. And we plan on staying the evil empire for a long, long time.

In 20 years, your "empire" will consist of nothing more than the three or four remaining teams capable of turning a profit.

There is nothing in professional sports more suicidally dysfunctional than Major League Baseball.  If you're not in a big market town and still regularly plunk down the $150 it takes to bring the kids to a day at the stadium (including parking, food, tickets, and the alcohol required to appreciate a full nine-inning contest), you're Amy Bishop crazy, because your "team" is nothing more than a farm system for the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, and a very few other heavies-for-life.

The imbalance gets worse every year, and the media just loves it.

154 73

 dananjcon

so what you saying is they should film sex going on inside a car while going at 200 miles per hour.

interesting...

Posted by: Ben at February 19, 2010 11:22 AM (wuv1c)

YES! They can call it ASS-CAR.

 

155 How can you men not like Women's bobsledding?  In what other sport can you watch a women's pants split right down the middle and show her thong?

156 36 It ain't a sport unless there is a potential for death involved.

Hey, my death wasn't for nothing!

157 laceyunderalls: "March Madness > Winter Olympics"

March Madness > Just About Anything

So kind of an unfair comparison.

And I can only tolerate basketball. At best.

Most days, Navel Gazing > Winter Olympics.

158

171 mortis, so besides her taste in men, her taste in sports is terrible too?

oh well, at least she's not a ginger

oh wait....

159

I hate the Winter Olympics.

I don't like NASCAR either. Auto racing died when it moved away from stock cars.  The glory years of people like Fireball Roberts.

I laugh when someone talks about the model of car their favorite guy drives.

The sport needs to go back to stock vehicles so that the regular folks can compete again.

Now I do like me some Sarah though.

160

I like Daytona, but more when they are running the American LeMans Series.  Tough, tough track, a real car grinder.

Daytona and Palin, looks like we're sewing up the south east for 2012!

161

No way you can compare the Winter Olympics with NASCAR. Only if you ran the Daytona once every 4yrs.

And If I'm going to watch cars going around in circles, I'd much rather watch Indy cars.

And if you really want fun, go to a track that runs figure 8's. Now THAT is driving...

162

I never gave NASCAR a second thought until I started dating current BF, a bona fide gearhead. If he's the typical NASCAR follower, all I can say is you good ol' boys can brag on your endurance all day long, IFYKWIMAITYD.

163 She's a big Steeler's fan too,

164

 If NASCAR's a sport, machine quilting is a sport

 To be fair to nascar drivers, it's a hell of a lot more physically demanding then golf.

Yeah, they're driving... but they're driving in those flame suits with the helmets and they got no AC and the car is not exactly your stock Grand Am, it's kicking out lots of heat and they're going close to 200mph.

First off, have you driven close to 200mph? It's fun but it's taxing. Concentration at those speeds is intense and hard to maintain for an hour.

And with the heat and the stress alot of those guys are ending up near dehydration by the time the race is over.

165 now a real sport, soccer, but only overseas.  name another sport where they have riot police on standby and the fans are known to set the stadiums on fire because of a bad call

166 145 oh now that is interesting.  Beck and company are saying that accenture was the first sponsor to drop tiger so they couldn't understand why the apology had to be done today.  They said the rumor is that accenture is running a golf tournament now and he might have been trying to upstage it with the apology.  Ugh that would be so calculated, so horrible, hope the rumor is false.

 

A non-political, Tiger Fan, friend told me that yesterday too.  He was just shaking his head.  Plus, it's Friday--the normal day you dump news that you don't want to linger around and marinate for a week.  Just ask Bubba and Barry.

167 And, for the record:

World Cup>>>Super Bowl>Final Four>BCS Bowl Games>NBA Playoffs>World Series (lately)>Stanley Cup>UEFA Champions League>College World Series>Driving Sports

...unless it's a Game Seven in hockey, which moves it up past the NBA Playoffs.

168

OT here...

It is now snowing the biggest flakes I have ever seen here in KC. I mean it almost looks like snowballs are falling.

Damn...

169 wiserbud: "It ain't a sport unless there is a potential guarantee for death involved."

FIFY

170 Yikes better take that sock off!

171 Posted by: navycopjoe

You're lucky she's munching an Italian ice right now with the look of a shark in a feeding frenzy.

You may want to start making your final plans for when she's finished, bro.

172

People talk about how great this driver is over that driver but it's really the mechanic that makes it all happen.  Remember the races with the cars all prepared the same? 40 car string of lap after lap. The only time somebody got passed was when they went into the pits, blew a tire or fell asleep from boredom. Put a so so driver in the hotest car and he will win. Put the best driver in a so so car and he's just pulling up the rear.

173 America certainly has the homliest curlers this year.

174 Whoops!  Forgot what this thread was about, and left out the Olympics.

World Cup>>>Super Bowl>Summer Olympics>Final Four>BCS Bowl Games>NBA Playoffs>World Series (lately)>Winter Olympics>Stanley Cup>UEFA Champions League>College World Series>Driving Sports

175

190  not scared at all

i'm at home with guns, lots and lots of guns!!

and i'm several thousands of miles away so theres that

the pacific ocean is greater than pregger hormones....i laugh haHA!!

176 What the hell do they do at sex addiction therapy??? Parade hot naked chicks around while zapping you with a tazer ?

177 Posted by: navycopjoe

I dunno, you may THINK you're safe, but them pregger gals get like some serious psychic powers.

If you happen to get a nose bleed, get to hospital STAT!

178 Soccer is ghey.  Enough of that shit. 
NFL>College football>High school football>Golf>College Lacrosse>High School Lacrosse>Olympic swimming>MLB>NHL>All other stupid sports>any stupid "sport" in a car.

That is all!

179

What the hell do they do at sex addiction therapy???

they make you wear a star trek uniform and you play world of warcraft

180

for the record, since obama is a white sox fan, all good conseratives should be cubs fans just to spite him

What is this, the 2010 Log Cabin recruitment drive?

181

Terribly O/T but:

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg is diagnosed with cancer By Josh Margolin/Statehouse Bureau February 19, 2010, 11:44AM U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, New JerseyÂ’s 86-year-old senior senator, was diagnosed with treatable stomach cancer in the last 24 hours and will begin chemotherapy today. The Democrat still plans to finish out his current term – his fifth in the Senate – and seek re-election in 2014. “This doesnÂ’t change any of that,” LautenbergÂ’s chief aide, Dan Katz, said of the senatorÂ’s political plans. “After he receives his treatment, back to normal.” Moments ago, LautenbergÂ’s office issued a statement from the senatorÂ’s oncologist, James...   Of course he is!  That's the problem with these mofos, they are so power hungry and hell bent on pushing their agenda, they refuse to step down when they really should.  Look at Kennedy.  If he would have stepped down when he got sick, a Dem would have easily won his seat in a special election.

182

192 America certainly has the homliest curlers this year.

You got that right. The Japanese girls were super cute!

183 they make you wear a star trek uniform and you play world of warcraft Whoa , brutal .

184

196  hmmm, good point but still ha HA!!

197  Soccer is dumb yes but the insanity of the fans makes it awesome

Motogp rules all sport...all hail valentino!!!

185

What the hell do they do at sex addiction therapy???

 

Do you really want to know that?  I'm thinking they do a bunch of "group" stuff, a bunch of desensitization exercises (maybe with a little Electric Shock thrown in), and a good round of "hide the sausage" before you graduate. 

186

And none of you pansy asses have noted that MMA is the greatest sport. Not to mention the oldest and most true.

MMA > Hockey > Rugby > Lacrosse > football > paint ball > Anything that goes 200mph > everything else.

187

"Sighs"

Anyone else miss the 'Wide World of Sports' on ABC? Hell, at least we could keep up with all these different sports instead of being isolated from each other.

Ahh, those were the days...

188 Russia has a couple of cuties.  That ginger is gorgeous.

189 Why do they call it "skeleton," for shitssakes?

190 NASCAR was cool until 1970 before that the cars WERE stock cars and pretty much anybody could go into a local dealer and buy a 427 or a 426 and go race with it

191 To be fair, Olympic speed-skating short track is awesome. Flying around a foot or so above the ice with no helmet while getting pocked and bumped -- all balanced on decapitating knives -- is the bomb. It gets an A. I mean how do you look at yourself in the mirror if you're a curler? Strategy and all is nice, but it should be a small part of a "sport" and not its sine qua non. Short track has it all.

192 ooo hearing from everyone, tiger's little apology has not gone over well at all.  No one buys it.  Was the wife there?   I listened on the radio, but a friend went so far as to opine that it's possible that the PR crisis  team deliberately tipped over  the plug on the video feed cause he was a disaster on camera and sounded better when you just heard his voice. 

193 207 Russia has a couple of cuties.  That ginger is gorgeous.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 19, 2010 12:17 PM (Z+kpn)

This one?

194

207  Russia has a couple of cuties.  That ginger is gorgeous

wait a couple months if she doesnt win a medal and she will be up for marriage on russianbrides.com

195 Poked@210, not pocked. Pocking would add a whole new dimension.

196 Damn You!  I was just resetting my homronal clock and you go posting up more pics of Sara Palin.  Damn you all to HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

197

but a friend went so far as to opine that it's possible that the PR crisis  team deliberately tipped over  the plug on the video feed cause he was a disaster on camera and sounded better when you just heard his voice. 

Actually, what I was watching the camera facing him did indeed stop, and then you could only see him from sort of a 3 quarter look from behind. I don't know about the other 2 women, but his mom was there and didn't look very happy. 

198 They started kind of slow, but I think the Winter Olympics have been pretty good. I've watched every night.  (OK, I have no life.)  The US is cleaning up, which always makes simpletons like me happy.  And now that the temps have dropped and the snow has firmed up, the alpine skiing events have been very entertaining.  No judges, no bogus scoring, just whoever makes it down the hill fastest alive.

199 Rush said before that he looked like someone being forced to read a statement...he was quoting a comment from a listener..

200 You know how they say that boxing is a sort of ballet.  Well, if boxing was a sort of ice skating there would probably be a lot more hair pulling and scratching than actual punching -- even from the woman's side.

201 Gonna be funny to see his reaction to the heckling he's going to get . Happy Gilmore x 10000 .

202 New events to improve the Winter Olympics:

1) Two-Man Ski Jumping: two jumpers, one pair of skis.
2) New Biathlon: four armed bobsledders shoot at road signs on the way down.
3) Skeleton Joust: parallel high speed tracks & carbon fiber lances.
4) Ice Break Dancing: Scott Hamilton's commentary is the real attraction here.

203 Apparently people were looking for me... I guess my love of hockey is a well known thing around here. But I'm also a NASCAR fan, so I'm a little split here.

I don't think NASCAR is better than the NHL. Nothing is better than the NHL. But I do agree that NASCAR is better than the winter Olympics for one simple reason - when the race is broadcast you actually get to see the whole race from start to finish and you get to see every driver. These idiots at NBC only show the Americans and the winners and the crashers when they broadcast the Olympics. I'm sick of seeing just a few competitors, and what really sucks is that knowing that NBC does this means that as soon as they show some no-one from some no-name country you KNOW that they are either going to crash or have a spectacular top 5 finish. That's the only reason NBC shows these people. It's annoying.

204 Petty is bigger than I thought he was - look at the mitts on that guy.  Heck, those aren't hands.. thems' is grizzly paws grafted onto arm-stumps.

STP

205 NASCAR doesn't impress me. I've done 160 on the beltway. The extreme sports at the Olympics rock : The Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Halfpike, Snowboard Cross, Luge, Bobsled, etc. No comparison really.

206

Posted by: Elizabeth at February 19, 2010 12:42 PM (QjuDE)

--It will be interesting hen I get back to Canada to compare and contrast the coverage.

_{(Going back to not getting any will be much less interesting.)}

207

Pocking would add a whole new dimension.

Isn't "pocking" something that happens in a John Ringo book?

208 "America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936"

209 NASCAR isn't a sport?  How many people attended the Super Bowl? How many people attended the Daytona 500?  Google it.

210 Just a couple of quick observations ( because I am at lunch and have to post a hit and run).

What the heck is this new sport where they are playing shuffle-board on ice? Come on, that is a sport!

Okay, for Tiger Woods (sorry, like I said, I am at lunch!). When he gets mad and hits a bad shot, shouldn't he be saying Bhudda Damn instead of G.D. now that he says he is a Bhuddist?

211 "… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
- Juvenal, Satires.  Satire 10

212 Logprof, the other ginger. 

213 I just watched that Eldrick Woods mea culpa and holy shit what the hell was that?!

Where did he learn to speak?  Did he not rehearse that?  That was pathetic!

214 I'm with Warren Bonesteel, the Winter Olympics rock.

215 I agree with President Obama that NASCAR  should be discontinued because it is a waste of fuel. What is the Carbon Footprint for NASCAR?  NASCAR is not a real sport like the Olympics which is sport and art together....

216

Yo Gasman,

   NASCAR is a waste and not a real sport. I think it is a sport for men whom are really gay but have to pretend to be real men......

 

217

No, really, why do they call it "skeleton"?

218 I used to love the Olympics, both winter and summer, but between allowing professional athletes to compete, the interminably syrupy athlete profiles, and the fixation on "medal counts," it's lost its charm. 

219 Eliot Spitzer was able to pull it out cause his wife stood by him.  She's still there, with him.   Where was tiger's wife.  Until we hear from her, most women are not forgiving him.

220

The Russian Curling Captain is teh hotness!

_{[...of course at 19, what would you expect?  Have they cut to her mom in the crowd yet?   That's the deal breaker!]} 

221 Tiger's wife went back to him after a $300 million settlement.

222 Petty doesn't think women should drive stock cars; hopefully he doesn't feel the same about women (a certain one) running for POTUS.

223

I was fully prepared to jump on you until I saw the picture of Richard Petty and the Great One.  Point taken.

Figure Skating is awful. Its annoying when the women do it - I don't understand the difference between a sow cow or lutz nor do i care and the judging is arbitrary and potentially rigged. When the men do it becomes not only annoying but also ridiculous.  The little area they sit in, trembling anxiously waiting to be judged - its a sickenly pathetic spectacle.  Simply Craven.

224 More new events:

Halfpipe+: The halfpipe with hazards - a giant pit, wall of flame & pendulum axe.
Red Rover: The childhood favorite combined with olympic caliber speed skating.
Chinese Downhill: We've all seen Hot Dog - how can this not be in the Olympics?

225

Nascar is not a sport. The arguments above only add to my assertion.

Kratos is really tired and almost totally de-hydrated after an evening of Skinomax Pron. 

Sure, you spank it, but at 200MPH for hours at a time? 

No, fuckin' way.

As much as I like the guy, Kratos is no athlete.

Neither is Tony Stewart. 

Pudgy little fucker can drive, sure - but so can Morgan Freeman. 

Let's see Stewart finish with that mean old Bitch Miss Daisey dressing hime down for an Hour and a Half! No way...not even Louis Gossett Jr. could take that shit.  Cappy would've turned right the fuck around and Bitch Slapped that racist whore.

On a brighter and gayer note - I hear ZRyan and Michael in Mi are expected to go Silver and Gold respectively in the Men's Ice-Dancing Contest.

U.S.Ghey! 

226

NASCAR: Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks

What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhart, Sr. have in common? Their last big hit was the Wall.

227 Hot chick skiers in tight spandex sporting camel toe while traveling at high speed down a twisting sheet of ice on two sticks >> Shawn White flying 27 feet above the half pipe wall then landing a double cork >> Guys on tiny sleds traveling at 90 MPH down an ice flume >> A bunch pampered dudes in a padded cockpit making left turns at 90 MPH for 4 hours straight >> Johnny Weir crying like a baby while wearing ghey flowers on his head >> Hockey

228 Anything that relies on the scores of judges to determine a winner is not a sport.

Oh, you mean like boxing?

229 I'll watch the Winter Olympics when they make defense a part of the biathalon...

230

Here's your authoritative Olympics coverage.

http://bit.ly/dawHJd

231

a double cork

Phrases like that will upset the Palinistas!

232 NASCAR isn't a sport? Ok, let's see you drive 180mph for three hours. What's that? No? Oh, i see, a sport is only something you yourself can actually do, like hit a little ball and prance around a fabulous diamond touching some pretty little sacs.

233

Formula 1?  Puh, lease.  Pole wins the race.  Yawn squared.  And the field sports, grow up.  No one watching football or baseball today can credibly claim Tony Stewart is overweight.  Besides, if the job gets done, appearance is secondary. 

NASCAR is the modern equivalent of Roman chariot racing.  Watch a short track race, Bristol in particular, and there will be no arguments.  Junior finished a race there a couple of years ago with just a fender and door hanging by welds.  Yet, there is no greater moment of truth and beauty than that spent pondering the 2.66 miles of heaven known as Talladega.  Bristol is a jewel box enclosing bright lights and cacophony.   Talladega is Beethoven's Sixth on tarmac.

Defame the fans all you want.  They display an unabashed love of God, family and country and take action whenever necessary to protect all three whether it be through strength of arms or rational voting.  NASCAR boasts the best fans in the world in terms of loyalty and courtesy.  They are the country's last traditionalists and should be cherished as such.

Some of you quasi-morons would be better off at Kos or Huff.  Go there now.

234 NASCAR is shit. 1950s technology "steering" left for 3 hours on oval after oval after motherf*cking oval is for retards and the easily-amused.

F1 starts in less than a month! Real race courses, real cars, real technology, real drivers.

235

Koopy, no one is saying that NASCAR isn't a sport. However, based on what you are saying, could any of those racers hit a fast-ball with a bat? Could any of those racers compete in a downhill race? Or a slolem? Could any of those racers run a 5000 meter race?

Ya know what? Betcha you could train Shawn White to drive a  race car, and he would do really well in NASCAR.

Unlike the opposite.

236

There's no physical prowess in Nascar.

They let Wimmens compete wit Mens in Driving 'Sports'.

Sport Disqualification.

Right There.

It's a recreational activity - Like Beer Pong and SudsBall, and Co-Ed Soccer!

237 LOL, we have opened up another moron argument as bad as the "party purity/Sarah Palin" hate fests.

238 The shooting portion of biathlon used to be fired with military rifles, accurized, to be sure, but high power cartridges. They switched to .22LR in 1978, ostensibly to make biathlon venues less extensive in area: contested over a shorter range, thus smaller. I heard some MSM guy say biathlon was modeled on prehistoric hunters. Maybe archery biathlon....
In Nagano in 1998, the organizing committee required retinal scans for athletes and coaches to draw their rifles and ammo, which were stored in separate facilities. It seems that a NASCAR fan with "an F-150 and a .30-'06", who believes in the 2nd Amendment, would want to see biathlon in every town: use your racetrack infield between races as the rifle range.
Best of all, for a guy like me who loves me some strong women, girls do it, too! Think of it: start the kids out on pellet guns when their little. Switch it to rimfire when they're teens. Then, move them out to the National Match course when they can ski 20 miles in a day.

239

Now that I've thought about it, let's go with this...

Any Olympic athelete can learn to drive.

Can any NASCAR driver compete in the Olympics?

Discuss...

240 NBC should have hired Darrell Waltrip for all on air ice dancing commentary.

241 "NBC should have hired Darrell Waltrip for all on air ice dancing commentary." Boogity, Boogity.....for the love of God was is this shit?

242 F1 = Exploding bathtubs.

243
DEER  JACKM

THE DAYTON 500 IS SOOOOOOO LAST WEEK.

244 NASCAR is a sport no doubt about that. Engineers, crew chiefs, pit crew members, the shop guys and the drivers all make up a TEAM. The drivers are athletes in top physical condition, who can drive their asses off at 190 mph., in traffic, with the next car inches from yours, on a track with banking that's so steep you can barely walk up it without falling over. And they aren't driving on super smooth tracks. There are bumps and dips and accidents happening instantly in front of you that you have a nano-second to react to without be able to see because of all the tire smoke. I had the honor of going around Lowes Motor Speedway (back then it was called Charlotte Motor Speedway) with The King himself in a show car on the track going around 140 mph. with no seat to sit on, the deafening motor roar, yea, it's a sport. Anybody that can drive over 190 mph for 3 hours or more has my respect. Plus attending a race in person changes your whole perspective on racing. The chicken bones, the chunks of rubber from the tires, the fat dude drinking brew out of a antifreeze container, the sheer roar and vibrations from the cars makes it a spectacle that pure American.

245 PREACH ON BROTHER JACK!  However, I do watch the Snowboarding, but that's because it's something I don't consider to be effeminate.  And speed skating, that's kinda cool, but only short track, other wise it's too much like "We white guys couldn't make it sprinting in the summer games, so we 'sprint' on ice in the winter games ".

With all that said: I hate NASCAR.  IT'S SO BORING!  I love the Americana of it, but I would rather be waterboarded by Dick Cheney in his underground bunker every day for the rest of my life than watch an hour of guys driving a car - I GET THAT EVERYDAY GOING TOO AND FROM WORK!

Sorry.......... Feel better now

246

All Olympic ice skating events that use judges to determine the "winner" should be replaced by mixed teams competing in rollerball iceball using a "Battle Royale" format.

TV ratings through the roof!

247

Hey bud - what's your problem?  Of course any rad stoner could outdrive those NASCAR guys.  They're all fags, man! 

Look at how well I drive, for instance.

248 BOOGITY, BOOGITY!  GO SMOKE

249

no way it's a sport.

no way driver's are athletes.

Stop in any truckstop.

Name any other sport where men  and women compete against eachother. You can't.  Because in sports it is not fair to pit men against women.  Poker, Chess, Checkers, RaceCar Driving.

Now if you want to argue Motorcross, I will allow it.

 

250 Americans finish 2-3 in the M Super-G.  The medals keep rolling in.

251

263 and vibrations from the cars makes it a spectacle that pure American.

Not to mention its roots in the moonshine runners outracing the feds...

252 "Pitchers and catchers report?"  Isn't that what they announced when they started the mens figure skating competition?

253 So much anti-NASCAR bigotry. If you don't find the sport interesting, that is one thing. Dismissing the entire industry and all of the fans is just fucked up.
I would like to see any of you pussies strapped into an all steel 3200lb 850hp race car and shit your pants when you haul down the straight at 206mph, then have to bail into turn 1 at Talledega  at 185mph on the 33 degree banking,praying to whatever heathan god you worship that this motherfucker sticks to the track.
Shit, I bet none of you could manage entering the pit lane without completely spinning out and fucking things all up for the crew who busted their asses to get that car ready for you. Newsflash: NASCAR is difficult, strenuous and dangerous.
The Daytona 500 is called the Great American Race for a fucking reason.
NASCAR attendance out numbers NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL.

A little bit of history. In 1984, Richard Petty won his 200th career win at the Daytona International Speedway in the July 4th weekend race the Firecracker 400.
Guess who was there, and met The King in person?

Ronald Wilson Reagan, as sitting President.

Do you think Sarah Palin knows that, and thought meeting the King at Daytona was super cool?    I do.

Many of you assholes disparaging the NASCAR Nation sound just like a fucking liberal professor of duchebaggery from Berkley or Princeton.

I hate gay ass baseball, but you don't see me calling otherwise good conservatives phallic obsessed homos for disagreeing with my opinion, do ya?

Let's not engage in the cultural bigotry that the left uses to marginalize and ridicule a very large portion of America that is heavily conservative, and shows up to do something about it on election day.

Fuck you very much and thatisall.  Back to your regularly scheduled hobo dismemberment.

254

For starters, figure skating and curling are not real sports, they're past-times. No one in a real sport wears a costume and prances to music, then has the referees vote afterwards to determine who won the game. In a real sport, everyone wears a utilitarian uniform and performs to the sounds of the game and the crowd and everyone in the stadium knows the score as the game progresses. As for curling, come on, any game that can be played by girls wearing their best dangling ear rings does not qualify as an official sport. It's bowling on ice and any athlete knows bowling ain't no sport either.

On a side note, last night Scooter Hamilton was gushing how Evan Lyckcoswicxmsdeoifjksdcv - whatever his name is - was never able to beat his sister in any sport when they were growing up, but that doesn't matter now that he has olympic gold medal. Really, Scotty? Lil' Evan's sister beat him any time he tried play real sports as a kid? Gee! What a shocker! You coulda' knocked me over with Johnny Queer Weir's feather boa.

255

3 things that would make Nascar more fun to watch.

1. Put a second guy in the car.

2. Put a brown paper bag over the drivers head.

3. Second guy tells the driver when to turn.

Call it sack racing.