NASCAR = Jeff Gordon, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw and Mud on my Tires
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Inside NASCAR's Lars Anderson knows why Gordon won the 2005 Daytona 500 (I'm not so sure that I do)
I gotta stop watching TV on the weekend.
Last Sunday, it was NBA All-Star Basketball weekend. Does anyone really care about the NBA All-Star Game?
But hey, a guy's gotta get his sports fix where he can get it in mid-February.
After all, there's no hockey. NFL and NCAA Football has dropped off the radar screen.
Baseball is to much about Giambi, Bonds and the steroid scandal.
Once the Sports Reporters is over at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, there's really not much to watch until Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal.
Or so I thought . . . until last Sunday afternoon.
I might never have known that it was Daytona 500 weekend in Florida. But there was a family emergency. My wife had to fly down to Florida on Saturday morning and guess what . . . It's very difficult to find a room on the East Coast Florida during Daytona 500 weekend.
But many of you no doubt already knew that!
To make this column as painless as I can (for you) . . . Here's the short of it. I watched my first NASCAR race last Sunday afternoon - The Daytona 500.
Did you know there is a NASCAR button on CNN Sports Illustrated's web site? Why would I lie? Here's the link. Go look for yourself. Click Here for CNN Sports Illustrated The NASCAR button is right between Golf and More Sports. Really! It is! Go look for yourself.
Thereason I know this today is that I had to GO to CNNSI on Sunday night to figure out why Jeff Gordon actually won the 2005 Daytona 500. And I was watching VERY closely.
According to Lars Anderson of Inside NASCAR, (Lars does seem very knowledgeable) . . . "This race came down to a two-lap, green-white checker finish. The key moment of the 500 was the final restart. Jeff Gordon, who was leading, successfully blocked Dale Earnhardt Jr. from getting by him. When Junior then went into the high groove to try to pass Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, who was in third at the time, stayed on the low line and gave his Hendrick teammate Gordon some drafting help. This enabled Gordon to thwart Junior's attempt to win his second straight 500 and also helped Gordon hold off a late-charging Kurt Busch to take the checkers."
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . Now I get it!
Soooooooo THAT's how Gordon did it!
After 5 hours of NASCAR and a few bottles of Sunday Budweiser, by Monday morning, I was dag-blamed addicted. At 7:00 a.m., instead of watching the Weather Channel, I was watching Shania Twain Country Music Videos (It really doesn't matter what she sings, does it?), Brad Paisley (Mud On The Tires), Alan Jackson (Monday Morning Church) and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying."
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named FuManchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named FuManchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
I'm alreadymakin' plans to watch next week's Auto Club 500 at the California Speedway - Situated on the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill approximately 40 miles east of Los Angeles, California Speedway is a great place to watch a race and experience the thrills of NASCAR. It is one of the premier auto racing venues in the country, hosting six major racing weekends, which includes the largest attended sporting event in the state.
I'm kinda gettin' into this . . .
One Negative Side Effect: I noticed that I'm driving a lot more aggressively down Center Avenue this week. I keep trying to get up close on the driver's bumper in front of me so that I might better understand that "draft" thing. I almost had it Thursday night on the way home . . . but then the light on Johnson changed. I was stuck down low and some Volkswagen blocked me . . . stopped me from takin' the high line and gettin' through the intersection . . . I think both cars were from the same senior citizen's high rise over there on Pine.
But hey, I'm still a Nextel Cup NASCAR rookie. I got a long ways to go.
There is one looooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg season of racing ahead.
Click Here for the 2005 Nextel Schedule
That sure is a nice picture of Miss Twain? (I think I might enjoy NASCAR after all).
I've already got my room reservations at Talladega.
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