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Here's Where the Super Bowl Beat the Daytona 500

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Wally, I couldn't disagree more with the National Anthem portion of your comment.

Is the almighty dollar THAT important?

To be subjected to someone like Roseanne Barr desecrating our National Anthem at a major event is revolting to me.

I don't blame the "artist" however. It's the venue, the NFL, Major League Baseball, the individual racetrack or stadium that is to blame. They don't have to use someone who totally disrespects our flag and our country and subject the audience to it.

I can't imagine why you would possibly love such a deal, but that's your choice here in the good ole USA.

Here's Where the Super Bowl Beat the Daytona 500

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Now and again, Martinsville will use the Virginia Tech "Highty Tighties" Regimental band for their National Anthem. That group won 1st place in the Presidential Inaugural parades every 4 years for years and years. They even used to play "Dixie" at the Inauguration. If you move this clip up to about the 7:15 mark you'll hear one of their Martinsville National Anthems and the other stuff on the clip isn't bad either. Sure beats using those recording "artists."

Here's Where the Super Bowl Beat the Daytona 500

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Here's Where the Super Bowl Beat the Daytona 500

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Other than the crowd size, not much to compare the Super Bowl and Daytona 500...

However....

Kelly Clarkson performed the National Anthem at both venues.

I thought her Daytona 500 screaming rendition was awful.

Her Super Bowl performance was head and shoulders above her Daytona 500 effort.

I still and always will prefer a band to play the Anthem, but I was glad to not have it severely botched as we have seen so many previous times at the big events.

Kelly Clarkson sings National Anthem at Super Bowl: 'I've never been more nervous in my life'
The 'American Idol' alum hit all the notes and got the words right

By Joyce Chen / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, February 6, 2012, 11:30 AM

The ladies ruled the night on Super Bowl Sunday, with a trifecta of musical powerhouses Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and Madonna herself taking the field at halftime in a glitzy, golden flurry of pizzazz.

But the single voice that kicked off what would turn out to be an amazing game for the New York Giants belonged to "American Idol" alum Kelly Clarkson.

The singer gave a soulful rendition of the National Anthem, hitting every note and remembering every word despite being "really nervous" prior to her all-star performance.

"Just finished rehearsing the anthem in Indy ... wow, I'm actually really nervous about singing at the Super Bowl ha!" she wrote on her WhoSay account. "Here's hoping I nail it and don't screw it up!"

And Clarkson, 29, had good reason to be anxious.

Last year's Star-Spangled Banner singer, Christina Aguilera, was skewered by the media after she flubbed the lyrics.

At one point, Aguilera belted out, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming," where the lyrics should have been "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming."

Said one Twitter user at the time: "Egypt thanks Christina Aguilera for botching the national anthem and bumping them off the Twitter trending list."

Thankfully, Clarkson's feedback was a lot more positive.

"Guess what ... I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl tonight ... wow that was almost not fun I was so nervous!" she wrote on her account after the game. "Fun night overall though!

"Thank you everybody for all of the nice things you're saying about my performance! I really appreciate it. "

jchen@nydailynews.com

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/super-bowl-2012-kelly-clarkson-sings-national-anthem-madonna-nicki-minaj-m-i-a-tackle-halftime-show-article-1.1017886#ixzz1ldhU9N00

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

TAKING OLD SCHOOL SERIOUSLY

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Looking really hard to see if I recognize Tim or Robbie in any of these shots!!!

TAKING OLD SCHOOL SERIOUSLY

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Methinks PK & Jim are calling the Adventure of Legend & Robbie a non-adventure, lol!

TAKING OLD SCHOOL SERIOUSLY

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Aw.

tell 'em it was fuel for your old Hilborn NASCAR fuel injected modified engine running nitro methane and ALCOHOL !

TAKING OLD SCHOOL SERIOUSLY

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shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......................

The Legend's legend grows!

Creating New Race Fans - The Old Ways Still Work

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Growing up in Richmond, Virginia I was so lucky to have 2 newspapers (morning and evening) that provided extensive coverage of auto racing, including Saturday stories, accompanied by great photos of the Friday night races at Richmond's Southside Speedway. Those papers also provided good coverage of the weekly races at Langley in Hampton and at South Boston, Va.

Due to the efforts of Richmond Grand National dirt track co-promoters Paul Sawyer and Kenneth Campbell cultivating the local media and making extensive use of "advance" men (drivers & other racing personalities) by taking them personally to the newspaper offices and television stations, the Grand National events there in the 60s received huge local coverage.

It was because of the local newspaper coverage focusing on Joe Weatherly's wins at Richmond and extensively covering his January 1964 death at Riverside in 1964 that I finally made my first foray to a Richmond Grand National race in spring 1964 at age 15. Though I now live in Charlotte - the supposed motorsports hub of the universe - I find the motorsports media coverage here greatly lacking. For instance, with many weekly tracks in the area, I have never once seen an article in the Charlotte paper covering weekly racing, recently or back in the 80s and 90s, even in the Tom Higgins-era. It was all devoted to GN/Cup.

It is my firm belief that good local racing coverage in the daily hometown newspaper can drive folks to race tracks, both local and national venues. If our papers aren't covering our local weekly track, we should be screaming at the local Sports Editor. That's something I have never done here, but plan to start.

What brought this subject to my mind this morning is a simple "Letter to the Editor" I read in the Daytona Beach News-Journal from a transplanted New England Yankee praising their racing coverage and photos and telling how he now plans to attend the Daytona 500 because of the great coverage of the Rolex 24.

Over the years I loved the DIS coverage in the Daytona paper. Many years ago it was my first exposure to great color photos in a newspaper. They even used to run special editions after the qualifying races. Great newspaper coverage can create race fans and spread the word. We should demand it in our own communities. Hats off to Godwin Kelly at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Here's the letter to the editor in today's Sunday Daytona paper:

Racing grabs another fan
By KEN GILLEO, Orange City
February 5, 2012 12:20 AM
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Letters to the Editor

Wow! What fantastic racing coverage of the Rolex 24. I'm a recent transplant to this area and in a few short months, your newspaper has transformed me into a motorsports fan. If it's got a motor, it's exciting.

I'm working at becoming a fanatic -- or maybe all motorsports fans become fanatics. In New England, motorsports gets an honorable mention twice a year. So, what a thrill to see the excellent racing car photos on the sports page, and even on the front page. Great website, too. Your writers are top-notch, with so much experience and historical perspective, that every paragraph is a good read. Coverage of in-between events, like testing and the Turkey Run, are also very helpful.

I'm still trying to "get up to speed" on the various aspects of motorsports, so your in-depth articles have been a big help to a newbie. Thanks so much. And I'd like to thank your newspaper for making me realize that I just had to see the Daytona 500 -- "The Day that Lasts a Lifetime."

updated by @dave-fulton: 03/31/17 05:11:16PM

Busy AJ (the one who showed at Daytona)

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After Rolex win, Allmendinger still on go
By GODWIN KELLY, Motorsports editor

Daytona Beach News-Journal
February 2, 2012 12:40 AM

DAYTONA BEACH -- AJ Allmendinger won the biggest race of his career on Sunday and hasn't had time to enjoy it.

Allmendinger, part of the winning No. 60 Michael Shank Racing Ford Riley Daytona Prototype, drove the last three hours of the Rolex 24 At Daytona at Daytona International Speedway.

He had dinner Sunday night with the Shank team here and by 3 a.m. Monday he was on a plane for California to shoot a television ad at Infineon Raceway for Shell, the primary sponsor of his new Sprint Cup Series ride, the No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge.

Allmendinger hasn't even had the opportunity to gaze at or fondle his Rolex Daytona watch, given to every winning driver.

"To make sure I didn't lose it, I gave it to my manager Tara (Ragan) to take it back home to Charlotte and have it fitted for me," Allmendinger said in a Wednesday conference call.

From Sunday to Wednesday, Allmendinger went coast to coast to work for his sponsor and work with his new race team.

After the production work was finished in California, Allmendinger flew back to Florida Tuesday night to test his No. 22 Dodge at Walt Disney World Speedway.

"I'm still trying to figure out where I'm at," Allmendinger laughed.

He has every right to be giddy.

Life is very good for the former Champ Car driver, who won five open wheel races in 2006, then stumbled into the Sprint Cup Series as a rookie with start-up team Red Bull Racing.

Since 2007, Allmendinger has spent most of his energy proving he can drive a stock car.

He got a bit testy when a reporter asked him if Sunday's Rolex 24 victory was his first win in a car with fenders.

"Yeah, unfortunately, thanks for that," he said, tongue-in-cheek. "Yeah, first official win. Yeah, thanks."

Allmendinger isn't 100 percent NASCAR. He is going to have equity in Shank's new IndyCar Series team, which will campaign with driver Paul Tracy, if all the details are worked out.

"But to me Sprint Cup racing ... (is) the toughest racing series in the world.

updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM