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Athletic Dir [863]
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How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 2:57 PM
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5 years? 10?
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 2:59 PM
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Dale who????
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 2:59 PM
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Even with him, they're in trouble.
Nascar started dying when they left their roots. (And too stubborn to admit it)
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:15 PM
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yeah and as a result I have no sympathy for them
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:01 PM
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Not sure why it’d end after him. No offense but he was always more of a popularity figure than winning driver. People follow trends, there will be another one. Not taking anything away from him, amazingly nice and gracious with fans. But top level driver he wasn’t
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:13 PM
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Yes he only had 26 wins. That isn't top 30 all time or anything. No he is not on some of the greats levels. He was still a winning drive and one of the best ever at restrictor plate racing.
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you didn't hear, NASCAR is shutting up shop since their...
Nov 19, 2017, 3:01 PM
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two greatest champions Dale jr and Danica Patrick are gone. Not a smart marketing choice to make to have your two biggest names to be losers
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Because Danica was a ##### and had no idea how to drive a
Nov 19, 2017, 4:13 PM
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race car is why she is gone. HTH
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Re: Because Danica was a ##### and had no idea how to drive a
Nov 19, 2017, 4:26 PM
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She might not have known how to drive race car, but she looked #### good doing it!
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Re: Because Danica was a ##### and had no idea how to drive a
Nov 19, 2017, 4:54 PM
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I thought she said Daytona and Indy 2018 would be her last races.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:01 PM
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While Dale was popular, the young guns replacing him will probably win more races and championsships. Won't be the "blue collar" good ole boy raised on a "mill hill" you'd like to hang w/and drink a beer.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:03 PM
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Bill Elliott son will probably replace jr as most popular. But, unlike Jr, Elliot will win races and championships imho
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 10:02 PM
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I'm thinking the same. Chase Elliot is who I pull for among the Young guns.
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Re: dale jr "blue collar"? He grew up with money***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:05 PM
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True but to many country boys, Dale jr is one of them.
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correct on that, some people just want to be gullible***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:14 PM
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Re: dale jr "blue collar"? He grew up with money***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:18 PM
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Not really. Ralph(grandpa) never made it big and Dale Sr never made a lot of money 'til he hooked up with Richard Childress and by then Jr. was grown, so didn't grow up with money.
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Re: dale jr "blue collar"? He grew up with money***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:42 PM
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Grew up w/money?
Not really. He was born in 1974. Earnhardt sr. did not begin his Nascar career until 1975 and only ran 9 more races in Nascar during the next 4 yrs. He ran short track stock cars and had been married 3 times by the time Dale Jr. was just a toddler. Hardly a life of wealth. Dale sr. was a hard ### and never gave Dale Jr. an easy life. Dale Sr. had grown up poor and was stil pretty much living from paycheck to paycheck up until he started driving for Richard Childress in 1981, who was just getting started as a team owner who was never a great race car driver.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:05 PM
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It's been dying with Jr as it's star. It may have a better chance without him.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:06 PM
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Popular but an average driver. Plenty of young talent for Nascar to survive.
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Re: Danica is going too?
Nov 19, 2017, 3:12 PM
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I guess I didnt know she was still there. I have nothing against her personally but the media overhype there was annoying
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She was always good for at least one crash per race***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:48 PM
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And right on cue,
Nov 19, 2017, 4:54 PM
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she crashes and is out of the race.
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Fans figured out long ago that it’s a bunch of left turns.
Nov 19, 2017, 3:23 PM
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Plus, many of the drivers who enter races aren’t there to try to win, but to help someone else on their team win or pick up a check. Given that, it seems that NASCAR’s popularity is that it reminds people of a simpler time. As long as there are some drivers left who don’t completely ruin it with their douchey personalities (looking at you, NFL and NBA), NASCAR will be fine.
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I grew up a fan of nascar, but it no longer has a soul
Nov 19, 2017, 3:38 PM
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When they abandoned southern tracks, changed the car to a basic platform, let advertisers run the show, and crated teams that block other racers, it lost me. What is the interest now? No more race on Sunday, sell on Monday aspect for car models. No more country boy trying to make a living. It's corporate douchiness at its peak. I hope it blows up and gets reincarnated as a more grass roots endeavour.
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NASCAR is already dead as far as I'm concerned.***
Nov 19, 2017, 3:44 PM
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Re: NASCAR is already dead as far as I'm concerned.***
Nov 19, 2017, 5:03 PM
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All my friends and co-workers go to lake or football/Baseball games on Saturdays and Sundays, instead of the Races. Myself, I have never really been a fan. To me, NASCAR is like Boxing--a "has been" these days.
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Re: NASCAR is already dead as far as I'm concerned.***
Nov 19, 2017, 5:05 PM
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Friends who were race fans.
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Who gives a chit?***
Nov 19, 2017, 4:17 PM
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 4:24 PM
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How long has Dale Jarrett been gone?I haven't followed it since!
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 4:25 PM
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He is about as irrelevant as the COOTS!
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 4:59 PM
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Big drop in 1-2 years. In 3-5 years Soccer replaces NASCAR. NASCAR drops to level of popularity of Canadian/Arena Football.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 10:40 PM
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They have Danica.... 11 wrecks in how many races? 32? 36?
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what does that have to do with football***
Nov 19, 2017, 10:58 PM
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 19, 2017, 11:15 PM
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Plenty long enough there is a great crop of young drivers coming up wtih Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliot, Kyle Larson, Byron, and Bowman
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nascar, dale jr...
Nov 19, 2017, 11:34 PM
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Never heard of em, who do they play for? Are they some of usuc’s amazing 2* players?
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What Is NASCAR ?
Nov 20, 2017, 7:06 AM
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It's been out of the national sports spotlight for a very long time.
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Re: What Is NASCAR ?
Nov 20, 2017, 7:21 AM
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N on A thletic S port C entered A round R ednecks
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Re: What Is NASCAR ?
Nov 20, 2017, 7:41 AM
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Cool stereotypes completely false but nice to see you showing more ignorance.
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 20, 2017, 7:23 AM
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Who cares
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Re: How long can NASCAR survive after dale jr is gone?
Nov 20, 2017, 7:41 AM
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You cared enough to open this post and reply so I appreciate your caring.
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