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StumblePublished Thursday, May 14, 2009 | 10:52 p.m.
Updated Saturday, May 16, 2009 | 9:32 a.m.
Drug testing and Jeremy Mayfield. That’s what everyone who follows NASCAR is talking about this week. Considering how dangerous racing is, it’s crucial that NASCAR adhere to a strict no-tolerance policy regarding drugs. My only question: Is NASCAR going far enough?
Take the legions of conspiratorial fans who think every caution flag is a sinister plot to control the outcome of a race or who constantly blame NASCAR for playing favorites with certain drivers. Send these people to the lab.
And what about the rowdy, chain-smoking, beer-swilling fans who throw their half-empty containers onto the track to express their displeasure when their least-favorite driver wins? Make them pee in a cup.
Find the person or persons responsible for inventing the lucky dog rule. Come on, this isn’t golf. There shouldn’t be mulligans in NASCAR! Send in the substance abuse police.
Then there is the TV broadcaster with a mouth that goes 200 miles per hour. No, wait, that just comes naturally for him. There isn’t a drug on earth that would make a person scream “boogity, boogity, boogity” at the top of his lungs every week before millions of people.
How about all those fans who think Kyle Busch is a polite, mature and humble young man. Well, you can’t drug test people who don’t exist.
What about Digger? Any rodent dumb enough to stick his head above ground as a pack of 43 cars approaches at 190 miles per hour needs to have a complete blood analysis done.
Finally, what about all of us bloviating NASCAR bloggers? There’s more wind on the Internet than in a wind tunnel test of a Sprint Cup car. Zero tolerance, baby!
NASCAR's move wound up looking bush league, like a little boy screaming "look at what I can do!" after MLB busted Manny.
Shouldn't the drug testing be pushed up the food chain? Does Rick Hendrick have to take a drug test when he returns to the track after his medical leave? Gene Haas after his stretch in prison? What about Brian France after his mysterious driving adventures?
I have only seen a few times that fans threw beer cans at a race. Before he died, Dale Earnhardt's fans threw beer cans, then, later on, that continued with Dale Jr. when things didn't go his way on the track. Why is this?
Instead of drug testing Dale Earnhardt Jr., he should be required to take performance enhancing drugs.
Hey bikerestorer, the reason Earnhardt Senior and Junior fans throw beer cans and other garbage when things don't go their driver's way is because they are uneducated white trash. They lack the necessary verbal skills to express their emotions so they result to primeval behavior.
This is way too late for this article but I will post it anyway.
It's entitled, "Find fault in this." A simple thought from an Alberta oil sands worker.(For those saying 'huh?,' Alberta is in Canada) "I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. I work on an oil rig for a Fort McMurray construction project. I am required to pass random urine tests, with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people that don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check, because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their ass drinking beer and smoking dope all day. Can you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check!"
Yeah I know, this has little to do with NASCAR, but is a great story, right?
fancan, I appreciate the irony but, life isn't always that simple. You have a job that pays a living wage, you have freedoms, self respect and the respect of others in your community. Heath care, retirement and other benefits (sick leave and vacation) too. The welfare abuser you illustrate is sitting in a small shack or substandard apartment, drinking beer and smoking dope all day...while the taxpayers subsidize it for a few hundred dollars a month. But picture his 'enterprising' neighbor who breaks into cars and homes to steal or robs people on the street, and eventually gets caught and goes to prison. Where he sits all day while the taxpayers subsidize it for thousands of dollars a month. I'm not condoning either lifestyle, just trying to make a point---it could be worse. As you suggest, some folks do need a little help to get back on their feet because they only want to live a life more like yours or mine.
What I don't understand is how Na$car can embrace a tax cheat like Gene Haas who has cost taxpayers millions of dollars but, is now awarded a trophy for his team winning the All Star race---some all-star if you ask me.
It's a wonderful world, isn't it rocket_car? You are quite right in explaining the irony of a few hundred bucks a month vs. a few thousand. I don't think I can come up with a solution.... not a legal one, anyhow.
Why does Haas get a trophy in the first place? All he's done is give Stewart a place of his own, Smoke won the damn trophy! The money for Hass' half probably came from the above noted CRIME.
Maybe all Jr. fans should be drug tested!
Yep, it's a wonderful world...and I agree that most of the solutions that come to mind are all illegal. Keep on smilin'.
Haas personally had nothing to do with Smoke's victory---heck, Hendrick had much more to do with it.
alert***the following paragraph is for humor only***
I thought the point of the COT was that it was so strong, a DUI driver would be safe behind the wheel? With the cookie cutter tracks, having one or two impaired drivers could make the races more interesting and much more like America's roads. Maybe that's a solution; put two welfare druggies into the mix each week...just having fun with the thread, of course, but it's hard to take Na$car's moral posturing seriously.
So I guess the fact that Gene Haas paid his debt to society means nothing to you. Maybe NASCAR should run him out of the sport because he was convicted of a crime. Oh, wait, then they would have to run Rick hendrick out too for his past legal troubles. You guys really need to get a hobby.
Na$car should run him out of the sport because his crimes involved a Na$car team.
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