Tired of seeing burnouts?
I think this is the way to celebrate a win!
updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/16/16 07:54:05AM
Tired of seeing burnouts?
I think this is the way to celebrate a win!
Back in our day I don't think anybody could have afforded the damage from those burnouts. Those are great victory photos, Dennis.
aint that the truth
I have disliked the "burn-outs" from the beginning. Months ago, a good friend of mine and I were discussing the burn-out issue. We both have been around the sport for decades and we were trying to remember who started that victory celebration phenom. He says it was Jeff Gordon. I really don't remember the first one and it may well have been Jeff.
The pictures in this post show the kind of celebrations I grew up enjoying. The Beauty Queens kissing the winner was also a big part of the celebration. I have more than one good story about that issue being in Victory Lane with The King from time to time. I guess we are destined to be subject to burn-outs from now on, but I wish that would change.
Robbie, as to your post and the YouTube attachments, I have heard this same summation of the sport all my life. I have tried hard to present the other side of the coin and, I think in many instances, it has worked. Most of the folks that know me know that racing is not always as presented in the assinine commercials these drivers do and the downright stupid actions of some of the fans. I will maintain, just like the NBA Championship last week, I don't see NASCAR fans out burning buildings and turning over cars because their team won, or lost. Seems fans of University sports programs are good at that sort of celebration as well.
One final point on that subject. I spent two weekends a year in race track infields, Darlington and Talladega included, from 1957 through probably 1985 and never ever, at any track, did I experience the drunken atmosphere I did at tailgate parties for Gamecock Football games. That always seemed odd to me that the "highly educated" fandom of college ball could out "drunk" a NASCAR fan.
Robbie, I am agreeing with you on the burnouts. I detest them.
As for the automatic DUI dispensers at the ball games, that would be a good idea except most would be too drunk to figure out how to get the ticket dispensed.
As to the feeling of some highbrows about stock car racing, let me tell you this story.
I was wearing a RacersReunion shirt in the mall about 2 years ago when an obviously very, very snotty lady and her approximately 10 year old son sat at the table next to me in the foodcourt. Really crowded place. I was eating my Dairy Queen soft ice cream cone when out of nowhere, this diamond studded woman turns to me and commences to tell me what she knows about NASCAR. She said he son told a man that he had a "nice car" and she thought he had said NASCAR and she told him immediately that he wasn't to mention that subject.
It really bothered me that such a snobby b***h even knew the word NASCAR. But I proceeded to politely inform her that I was heavily involved in the preservation of NASCAR history and was proud of that. She made a comment about the "low lifes" that hang around the sport and that's why she didn't want her son to even mention it. It was at that time I decided to engage the vocabularly taught me by Mrs. Devet, my High School English teacher. I certainly am no wordsmith such as some of those self-proclaimed geniuses with whom we are both familiar, but I could hold my own with that "Lady of the Food Court". That boy should be around 12 or so by now if he hasn't drowned from these heavy rain storms we've been having and the way his nose is so far "up in the air".
Sounds like a fine movie title - The "Lady" & The Legend. I kept waiting to hear about her getting an eyeful of soft serve, lol. Good for you for straightening her out. There is one particular mall in Charlotte that I refuse to patronize. Most of its patrons must be kin to your Columbia woman. They all have noses stuck in the air, too.
