What's worse - Nascar, or watching Smallville?

Just A Bunch of Rednecks...
and Other Great Stereotypes
by Steve Nash

Tell someone who knows nothing about anything that you like NASCAR, and they'll look at you like some backwoods hick that just got done dating your sibling. Tell the same person you're a fan of a convicted felon in the NBA or NFL, and the same stereotypical fanatic looks at you with a different suggestion...one that says, I hear 'ya.

In a world that chastizes someone for speaking their mind, and being politically correct, there runs a hypocritical line. The same do-gooders look down on those they feel aren't of the same breeding as them. NASCAR fans? Just a bunch of drunken hillbillies. NASCAR drivers? Professional wrestlers that wear more than spandex.

So if you've got a double-crossing friend that thinks your IQ is lower than the Dixie Chicks' chances of playing at the White House just because you're a NASCAR fan, then maybe you'll enjoy this column.

They just go around in circles for 500 miles:
True, minus the circle part. Football games are just players running around a field for 60 minutes, baseball is just a ball being hit and thrown for 9 innings, movies are just future politicians acting out of character for 90 minutes. So, the point is?

NASCAR fans are all drunken rednecks:
I don't drink, and I attend races. I see a lot of people that don't drink, and definitely don't listen to country music, go to the track. This is the oldest, and dumbest, stereotype. Drunks are at any sporting event. So does that make NBA fans all drunken business executives?

There's no point to it:
No point to it? What's the point to anything? How can you not get the point of racing? It's to be the first to the checkered flag. That's an easy concept...and you make fun of racing fans for being stupid?

It's a white person's sport:
If that's true, then what is the NBA? To characterize a sport based on what group likes it and what group doesn't, is stupid. And I know people, not of caucasion descent, that love NASCAR as much as anyone else.

People only watch NASCAR for the wrecks:
And hockey is only watched for the fights, football for the injuries, baseball for the beanings, basketball for the players fighting with the lawyers of one of the 50 women they have an illegitimate child with demanding child support, tennis for the supermodel-like women...

NASCAR might have fans, but it's not like it's that popular:
Really? 150,000 people any given Sunday might quash that notion, and 5,000,000 TV viewers who chose Talladega over the NFL last weekend have something to say, too.

If it's so great, then why is it barely on SportsCenter?:
The WNBA gets about the same amount of time as NASCAR, so does that make the WNBA more popular, or better? SportsCenter is ESPN, and ESPN lost NASCAR. Why should they care about something they gave away?

Anyone could do it:
And anyone can learn to fly an F16, anyone could learn to be a brain surgeon, write sports columns on the Internet, be an astronaut, win the Super Bowl...

They aren't athletes:
The definition of an athlete is one who participates in competition of an athletic variety. If people get tired driving to the beach on vacation at 70 mph for five hours, then how could they go 200, inches apart for hours, at temperatures at mind-numbing areas, constantly searching for the new line, the new changes to the car? They can't, and this is quashed.

It's a guy's sport:
Anyone who believes this doesn't have a brain.

NASCAR is not a sport:
You're right. It's a motorsport.

And a few for our favorite person, err-people, the open-wheel fan(s).

It's not true racing:
You're right, it's not. It's incredible racing, especially compared to the snoozers that CART and F1 constantly belittle to the racing fans.

Open-wheel racing is better, since the cars are more sophisticated:
Nothing like watching 18 computers race each other, right? I'm surprised the steering wheels don't move for the drivers, too.

Those taxi cabs just beat and bang:
And the overglorifie

 

I like Steve Nash. I have a feeling he wrote that after having an arguement over Nascar.

The majority of what he wrote is right.