NASCAR OVERLOAD !?

April 25, 2008

Kevin Goulet

NASCAR OVERLOAD !?

.....First, lets agree (or disagree) on one thing about the current state of SPRINT CUP Racing affairs. Unbelievable as it is, the original redneck, moon-shine-running group that became known as NASCAR has become bigger -in the last ten years- than anyone could ever have imagined..., or feared. Perhaps NASCAR is TOO BIG!!! Names like the ever popular commercially sanitized DALE EARNHARDT JR., perennial winner JEFF GORDON, multi-champ JIMMY JOHNSON, the back-flipping CARL EDWARDS, ladies man KASEY KAHNE, flyin' RYAN NEWMAN, Pull-no-punches fan favorite TONY "Smoke" STEWART are just a peppering of Racers' names who have vaulted the sport into the big time, rivaling (and second only to) the NFL in the weekly Nielsen rating ''races''. BILL FRANCE Jr., Son (now CEO) BRIAN FRANCE and family (they are all greedy AND guilty too) have created a MONSTER (not the ENERGY Drink) franchise with a fan base that is other-worldly. However, what with all the HYPE (SPEED Channel; enough NASCAR programing already, Please!!!), the many "experts" weighing in on the overly governed FRANCE Family not knowing well enough to leave the rules alone, those Frickin' RESTRICTOR PLATES still choking the competition on the big ovals (road courses too) -even after years of complaints from the racers themselves- there is a conclusion one has to draw about what is happening on the AMERICAN Racing scene...., Yes, it's that dreaded 'entertainment-based' question (google it if you don't know what it means)..., has NASCAR JUMPED THE SHARK??? (to be continued...)

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