Hell, why not flip coins in an office in a strip mall?
Posted by TFG on February 29th, 2008
Get shorter - NASCAR - Yahoo! Sports
If NASCAR wants to attract the more casual fan, it has to give them a sense of drama, and the way to do that is to compact the action, not have it drawn out over four hours and 500 miles.
Everybody wants things shorter and faster…gotta go go go get going. This Bonkowski guy should just have his wife Tivo the race while he’s out doing whatever the hell is so damn important, if he’s all worried about how long they are. How he can’t see drama in the 500-milers is a mystery. Maybe it’s a casual sense of drama, kinda ginned up and frothy, that’s missing. That’s it — NASCAR needs to be more like American Idol, or Pick A Briefcase, Stupid.
Piss on the casual fan, anyway. Does the race scene need ‘em?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
How in the hell do you drink a case and relax over a half hour show? You are supposed to blow an afternoon on it. That’s the point.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Why not use actual stock cars-Taurii and Malibus and whatnot straight off the rental lot-*that* would make things more interesting, and roll back the clock to the early days of NASCAR in about 1950 or so, and the best drivers would still rise to the top.
Just a thought
The R Man
March 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Mainly because no one would pay to see that. We’re spoiled by 900hp and 200mph bump drafting. And I like ‘em to run those 500 miles in these fancy new cars. Of course, it’s not for everybody, and it was likely never meant to be.
That’s the problem with hitting the Big Time, though — gotta keep getting bigger.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
True enough. I can’t really get into NASCAR, though I really tried in high school, so I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it amuses me to no end to hear arseholes in bars go on about the superiority of Fords versus “Shivolays” in the real world based on the performance of the NASCAR equivalents, though it’s not as much fun as listening to the arguments as to whether Missouri supported the Union or the Confederacy in the War Between the States, which used to lead to knife- and gun-fights back before it became to easy to check such things online.
The R Man