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Uh this was how I cooked chicken for last years daytoner fi hunnit party.
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Completely random, but here's Doug Heveron's account of being the final yellow that handed Petty his 200th at Daytona in 1984quote:I always say, if I didn't make it, at least I'll be a trivia question. There were three or four laps to go. I was pulling out to pass (another driver), and Benny Parsons was in my blind spot. I didn't know he was there. We didn't really have the best spotter. I pulled out, and he just caught my right rear bumper. It got me a little wormy. Of course, it went left, and I was skidding sideways. When the windshield left, I said, "Well, this isn't going to be a whole lot of fun."
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Jan 25, 2016 04:05
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Awesome story, Viking. I love hidden tales like that. 
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Jan 25, 2016 04:59
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If I'm a neutral viewer of that ad and it's advertising a sport I don't watch, using soccer as an example, I'll see it and it's not going to make me watch soccer.BMB5150 posted:Looked more like your average beer commercial which is pandering to the base. Also You mean you don't open up your pool and have a bunch of attractive Millennials fresh out of central casting over for the Daytona 500?
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Jan 25, 2016 05:32
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at having and outdoor BBQ in the middle of winter.
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CBJSprague24 posted:You mean you don't open up your pool and have a bunch of attractive Millennials fresh out of central casting over for the Daytona 500? Well if by pool you mean one of the many potholes in my city that is filled up with rain water with all the storms I get, more power to them to go in for a dip.
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CBJSprague24 posted:If I'm a neutral viewer of that ad and it's advertising a sport I don't watch, using soccer as an example, I'll see it and it's not going to make me watch soccer. I don't think there are many ads that are going to draw any uninterested fans to racing, so the best they can do is appeal to the base they have or have had. There's only so many directions you can go and this is a perfectly viable one. CBJSprague24 posted:You mean you don't open up your pool and have a bunch of attractive Millennials fresh out of central casting over for the Daytona 500? that sounds rad tho
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kidcoelacanth posted:that sounds rad tho It does sound like good times. BMB5150 posted:Well if by pool you mean one of the many potholes in my city that is filled up with rain water with all the storms I get, more power to them to go in for a dip. With enough alcoholic libations, that water should feel nice and warm.
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Jan 25, 2016 05:42
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CBJSprague24 posted:With enough alcoholic libations, that water should feel nice and warm. That or get high cause we can do that too, legally.
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LASTCAR posted:Awesome story, Viking. I love hidden tales like that. Then you'll love the story it came from Here's Mike Curb's recollection which will make all you Carl Long fans happy quote:In 1983, I got a call from Bill France Jr. He said to me, "Mike, I thought you said when you were through being acting governor you were going to come back to NASCAR." I said, "You're right, and I still have my shop in Kannapolis. But I don’t have a driver." He said, "Are you sitting down?" I said, "I don’t need to sit down, if there's a driver you want in my car, just tell me." Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Jan 25, 2016 |
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VikingSkull posted:Then you'll love the story it came from I'm glad they shed a little light on that story - Petty's move to the Curb team never really made much sense to me. I get that NASCAR didn't want to penalize Richard for a blatant infraction, but I don't see how essentially forcing him to switch teams for a year or two accomplished anything. Both driver and team were still able to run in Cup in 1984 (Petty Enterprises just put Kyle in a car with 7-11 sponsorship) and Richard didn't even lose his STP sponsorship in the process. Hell, one could say that Curb was actually giving Richard better equipment that got him those final two wins. The whole scheme sounds more Brian France than Bill Jr. Boomer The Cannon posted:NASCAR racing is to that ad, what the plot is to a porno film. Sums that ad up perfectly. To be honest, that ad depressed me a bit, knowing the sport isn't and never has been THAT popular. I also hated the "Daytona Day" concept itself - not the spirit of it, but rather the casual inaccuracy that completely ignored SpeedWeeks. Just another step down the road after FS1 tried to convince us that college basketball was somehow part of SpeedWeeks 2015.
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LASTCAR posted:The whole scheme sounds more Brian France than Bill Jr. Maybe it's because I've been watching this for three decades, but that's why I get irritated when some stupid poo poo happens and people go nuts. If you didn't know NASCAR was a dumpster fire since 1948 coming in, I dunno what to tell you lol
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Jan 25, 2016 07:35
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LASTCAR posted:Sums that ad up perfectly. To be honest, that ad depressed me a bit, knowing the sport isn't and never has been THAT popular. I got bored and decided to subject myself to Dave Moody today. As per usual he tried to spin the ad as a positive thing for the sport, and about how it's going to lure all these new fans to NASCAR. "Maybe these people will treat it like most people treat the super bowl. They're not fans, but they'll come for the parties and for the "atmosphere", etc. They're far more important to the future of this sport than the "loyal" fans that call into this show just to complain!" NASCAR seems really obsessed with this mindset for some reason. I don't quite grasp it.
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Jan 26, 2016 08:26
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"lemme see what this fat blowhard has to say about a commercial"
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FuzzySkinner posted:NASCAR seems really obsessed with this mindset for some reason. I don't quite grasp it. This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out: Maybe it's because they want to attract new fans to the sport
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I should also be clear: I don't expect it to work at all, but that's less to do with anything about the campaign and more to do with the fact that attracting anyone to racing is pretty loving hard. Making the comparison to more mainstream sports is probably the best option they have. They're not stupid, they've run these numbers. It's why the chase exists.
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Jan 26, 2016 11:36
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kidcoelacanth posted:This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out: Maybe it's because they want to attract new fans to the sport This might also sound crazy, but maybe they should focus a bit more on retaining the ones that are fleeing in droves
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Slickdrac posted:This might also sound crazy, but maybe they should focus a bit more on retaining the ones that are fleeing in droves There's no marketing campaign that's going to do that. Any fan that drops NASCAR is doing so because of on-track product, or the Chase, or dumber reasons like Toyota winning the championship. You may as well focus on making the effort to grab the casual or new fan with advertising because the old crowd knows the score already and no commercial is going to make or break that.
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Slickdrac posted:This might also sound crazy, but maybe they should focus a bit more on retaining the ones that are fleeing in droves I'm an admin on a FB group, and the old school fans that are still around should be smothered with a pillow
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LASTCAR posted:I'm glad they shed a little light on that story - Petty's move to the Curb team never really made much sense to me. I get that NASCAR didn't want to penalize Richard for a blatant infraction, but I don't see how essentially forcing him to switch teams for a year or two accomplished anything. Both driver and team were still able to run in Cup in 1984 (Petty Enterprises just put Kyle in a car with 7-11 sponsorship) and Richard didn't even lose his STP sponsorship in the process. Hell, one could say that Curb was actually giving Richard better equipment that got him those final two wins. It really does sound more like Brian. I'd once heard there was a "falling out" amongst the Petty clan, but didn't realize there was NASCAR intervention to set up the Curb deal. Maybe that was the propaganda.
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CBJSprague24 posted:It really does sound more like Brian. I'd once heard there was a "falling out" amongst the Petty clan, but didn't realize there was NASCAR intervention to set up the Curb deal. Maybe that was the propaganda. It was 100% propaganda and I have a feeling it was because other competitors were about to go public about Petty having a looooong history of cheating with tacit NASCAR approval. He won #198 with a hilariously, blatantly illegal car. I think they pulled everyone aside, had a meeting, and let them know "he gets 199 and 200 at another team for the good of the sport, then that motherfucker never wins again, deal?" It's just too odd to me that he gets wins until he gets caught cheating, goes to another team and picks up two wins, then never wins again for a decade.
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You could tell Mike Joy was trying to be passive-aggressive about "the fix is in" in that article. Speaking of arrangements by an Association, Smackdown isn't the only thing moving to USA this season- Watkins Glen will be on USA because of Olympic coverage. Full TV schedule: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/schedule.html e- NASCAR's story gave the wrong link to the TV schedule details. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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kidcoelacanth posted:I should also be clear: I don't expect it to work at all, but that's less to do with anything about the campaign and more to do with the fact that attracting anyone to racing is pretty loving hard. Making the comparison to more mainstream sports is probably the best option they have. They're not stupid, they've run these numbers. It's why the chase exists. Weird that the guy who works for a NASCAR advertising agency is defending that stupid commercial.
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kidcoelacanth posted:This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out: Maybe it's because they want to attract new fans to the sport I don't really care either way, like/hate, on the commercial but I feel like NASCAR has been trying to grasp this same section of new fans (males 18-49 who like the NFL) for the last 15 years using the same kind of join the party type approach. That same, hey guys, we're just like football so now that football is over come watch us! kind of thing. Also I can't think of a single person that I know in the last 15 years that never used to watch who now watches regularly. You'd think that being a male between 18-49 and having a lot of friends who are also male and between 18 and 49 I'd know at least 1 of them who started watching even 5 races a year. Excluding the guys I work with on a race team I know 3 people that watch it at all, 2 women I work with and my dad. It just seems like they need a new angle on trying to attract new fans because the 4 quarter sudden death overtime superbowl sports team angle clearly isn't working.
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The angle they need to go with is "we dropped nerve gas on the morons who won't shut up about the old days, it's safe for you to watch now"
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VikingSkull posted:
Also, how old is Billy?
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kidcoelacanth posted:This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out: Maybe it's because they want to attract as much new money to the sport before it gets mad and walks away
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VikingSkull posted:I'm an admin on a FB group, and the old school fans that are still around should be smothered with a pillow Makes sense that the ones who haven't quit are dumb as poo poo.
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Under the Chase format, the 2015 NXS champion would have BEEN........ Daniel Suarez  ....who would've completed the Ryan Newman Destiny by not winning a race. I can't wait for that to happen this year.  http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2016/1/26/xfinity-series-2015-results-2016-format-new-champion.html?cq_ck=1453831193351 Also, four drivers would've clinched Chase spots on the merit of wins. 33% of the field.
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Jan 27, 2016 01:52
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Barney Hall died. If you want Quintessential NASCAR, he was it. This sucks.
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Jan 27, 2016 05:41
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http://m.reviewjournal.com/business/investor-seeks-ouster-independent-director-allegiant-parent-companys-board
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Sooo the MudSummer Classic is now being called #Eldora.
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keevo posted:Sooo the MudSummer Classic is now being called #Eldora. Blow up Eldora
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keevo posted:Sooo the MudSummer Classic is now being called #Eldora. PoundEldora? Idgi
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Hash Tag Eldora.ayn rand hand job posted:Blow up Baseball If they had to give up their clever, punny name because MLB felt threatened, I love this brutally clarified name for the race as a fan who spends money on this.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Hash Tag Eldora. That's even worse!
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Nascar 2016:how many times can old timers cry.
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Not specifically NASCAR related but tennessee and 'dewshine' so: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teens-may-have-drunk-fatal-mixture-racing-fuel-mountain-dew-n505196
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