When is NASCAR Hate Not Appropriate
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
This weekend I turned on Sportscenter on saturday and sunday and what did I find? Well immense coverage of NASCAR and storylines that went for 20 minutes at a time. I wanted to punch myself in the face repeatedly. ESPN has NASCAR now oh great why don't they just subject me to countless hours of NASCAR coverage on sportscenter so I could thusly hate Sportscenter like it seems the rest of the world does. Can't they just have their 2 hour NASCAR now shows on ESPN 2 that way I know not to tune in?
Well the funniest part of it all is that NASCAR fans can't stand ESPN covering NASCAR. So lets get this straight, NASCAR fans hate ESPN covering NASCAR and general sports fans like myself hate ESPN covering NASCAR, isn't that classic. Oh and now even Tony Stewart who won the Brickyard 400 this weekend says ESPN's coverage sucks.
Can't we get the damn races on the SPEED Network or something? Atleast the Onion did a solid job of making fun of how NASCAR is simply taking left hand turns.
Oh and furthermore ESPN apparently thinks the biggest moment in NASCAR history is Dale Earnhardt dieing. Talk about Morbid.
2 comments:
I think that ESPN is wonderful,the host for the Sunday Cup race are the perect 3-people for that job.Especially with there boreing comments aboutthe airover the cars. Interesting,but a bit much.A comment is good, a anologe, not good.You three managed to make me want to smash myself in the head, over and over again.They should call the coverage,The 3-lok at me, instead of Nascar coverage.Those 3 should be put in a cannon and shot out to sea.Who is the idiot that actually hired these 3 to cover Nascar? ESPN< has got to have a hireing policy that IS competeing with the shit slinging monkies in the ZOO.And I am a normal fan,Yup.
I concur Simone. Nascar doesn't lend itself to Stuart Scott... it is what it is. Sportscenter tries to make it hip and cool and all this BS but really NASCAR drivers and fans tend to be normal, un-exciting people who have families and don't really dig the glamorous side of it. If ESPN wants to get converts, they need to stick to the basics... the 17 car passing the 24 car is not ESPN Top 10 worthy, nor will it ever be.