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Originally Posted by porschefan  Why not take away the drivers personalities. |
Don't you think they have? Or, at lest tried to? Fines for swearing... sending Tony Stewart off to Ms. Manners School of Charm? Do you really think some of the new-comers are "manly men?"
For a series that can literally pin point the exact moment in history that the American television watching audience discovered NASCAR, you'd think they'd figure out that they need to take a look at what got them here.
The year was 1979. It was first NASCAR race broadcast flag-to-flag live, by CBS. The finish came down to a war between Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough.
Yarborough attempted a slingshot pass out of the second turn, but Allison blocked him. Yarborough’s wheels got into the grass, he slid back into Allison and the two bounced off each other until they wrecked in the third turn.
Richard Petty, running third, held off Darrell Waltrip and A.J. Foyt to win.
Immediately after the finish, a fight broke out in the third-turn infield between Allison, Yarborough and Bobby Allison, who ostensibly had stopped to give his brother a ride.
Fists and helmets were flying.
And millions saw it. A snowstorm had ravaged the Northeast, keeping folks inside. They decided to see what this NASCAR stuff was all about. They got an eyeful.
For the first time, NASCAR was thrust into the national consciousness – and the seed for its future growth was planted.
Let's hear another collective DUH!!!!