Comments by user: Laker
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Get rid of the restrictor plates, shorten the races and the season.
Hey, maybe when they get done with the "race to the chase," they could take those 12 drivers and have a 100 lapper after the preliminary, oh, sorry, the feature race ... let's say after the final 10 or 12 regular season races. I wonder if anyone would hang around for that? watch junior, gordon, johnson, etc., race without having to avoid some of the guys who show up each weekend just for a leisurely (?) 300-mile ride. Wow!
If baseball, football and basketball had nine-month seasons, they too would lose the fans until the playoffs.
A nice 24-race season, 12 to get into the chase, 12 in the chase ... 12 100-lappers. Wouldn't that be great ... maybe
Buy your wife the lawnmower ... or at least invest in some sheep. lol
Q -- How many people work in Clark county government?
A -- about half of them (maybe).
Took the cab once in vegas ... once was enough. Did some homework on free shuttles, the bus route and now add the monorail and now I never come near a cab, only to walk by them as they wait for another person to rip off. I've got the time ... I can go from anywhere on the strip to DT for free ... in about the same amount of time the rip-off cabbie takes me on a slow ride around the perimeter of the city.
Rocket is so right ... remember Allen Kulwicki won the championship by five points ... that's one lap in the lead for the national championship of stock car racing.
It's amazing to realize how proficient these mechanics are at rebuilding a car, but NASCAR needs more than a car repair to rebuild its reputation.
It made a couple good moves by returning the races to uniform legitimate green flag starting times and the double file restarts, but there still a lot more:
First, it shot itself in the foot by requiring restricter plates.
Second, it's got to bring ticket prices back in line with what Joe Fan can afford. Luxury boxes are nice, but it's the guy/gal in the stands that is a good guage for the popularity of the sport.
Third, may narrowing the tires down a bit (No, make that a whole lot) would make racing more competitive by slowing down the cars a bit.
Fourth, shorten some of the races. 600 miles is just too long for any race. The actual race, for most parts, is the final 50 laps. Other sports have the same problem ... I know pro basketball fans who don't show up until the third quarter; soccer games are much too long and much too big a field; baseball is too slow (but that's an old man's game anyway, isn't it ... LOL).
Some on racting, check out why Saturday nights short track racing is so popular ... it's because every lap counts and the first two thirds of the race are not just a joy ride to fill up two hours of time.
Bravo Steve. In our area, many originators of tickets to prime events have limited the purchase to four tickets, shutting out brokers who buy blocks of 50 or 100 or more tickets to very attractive events. We need more Steve Wynns.
Atta girl, McKenzie. Wish you much success.
Haley, that statement is inane. This was a killing without purpose, a thrill-kill, you might say. War is war ... whether you believe it's right or wrong. I don't know what Davison's reasoning was, but it boils down to pure stupidity ... and we've got to get rid of stupidity. Bye Bye Gerald. See you when you're about 50 or so ... maybe. What a waste of two lives.
I'm from Wisconsin. There's a couple things you have to understand about Wisconsin government.
1. It was after 5 p.m. Anyone who sucks off the public trough has escaped that building by 5 p.m. No one except two janitors and a scrub woman were in the building after 5 p.m.
2. If that plane had destroyed the Wisconsin state capital, we would have lost the only three people in state government who do an honest day's work.
Agreed, the plan should have been blown out of the fair before it hand a chance to endanger those three, honest, hardworking people.
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there's always room for another football league ... regardless if it's minor league professional football or major league. But the future depends on the fans ... without money (paid admissions) no one can be successful ... along with a good operations plan. I hope it's successful.