Fundies After Fox!

[jmowreader]

Yes, it's true.

Sunday's Nextel Cup race was at Bristol. As all good NASCAR fans know, the trophy at Bristol is actually awarded to the driver who brings home the largest portion of his car. Lots of wrecks there.

Cup rookie Martin Truex Jr. was one of the casualties.

While Mr. Truex was sitting in his car waiting for the emergency crew to get him out, Fox played some of the two-way radio chatter between the car and the pits. Said Mr. Truex, "we really missed the set-up today. It was a piece of shit."

Which pales in comparison to a conversation between Dale Jarrett and his crew chief, in which the crew chief said he was going to "put some 20-bleed shocks on this motherfucker." These guys swear on the radio.

Anyway, now the American Family Association is all up in arms that they didn't bleep the "shit."

[TheMightyFavog]

1. Let's see... NBC always puts a 5 second delay when they do races

Why doesn't Fox?

[sasquatch]

2. How the hell could they?

It's a live tv "sporting" event(I used quotes because NASCAR isn't a sport)with advertisers and viewers that get really pissed when you tape delay the event.

[AllegroRondo]

3. They delayed the Super Bowl

so why not NASCAR?

its only a couple seconds anyway, just enough to catch profanity if necessary.

[sasquatch]

4. They delayed the halftime show, not the game

[jmowreader]

5. NASCAR is a sport, Sasquatch

It's more of a sport than golf.

In fact, it's the only sport in which you will never hear "if my team was playing (fill in name of team they didn't play this week) instead of (team that just administered such a beating you thought you were looking at family photos from Abu Ghraib instead of footage from a contest of athleticism) we woulda had 'em." Because all of the teams in this sport are on the field at the same time.

[Squatch]

6. You're absolutely correct.

From the Dictionary:

Sport (n)

An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

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Holding your bladder for 500 miles while driving a car takes both physical exertion *and* skill. :sarcasm:

[jmowreader]

7. Your bladder shuts down during a race

I guess that when your body is wrapped in fireproof clothing, then packed into a car that not only has nearly-nonexistent ventilation and no insulation between the engine and the driver but has the exhaust pipe stuck right under the seat, its excretory system figures that it better turn that excess water into sweat, not urine.

So let me see...

Rules or customs? Check on both.
Undertaken competitively? Check.
Involves skill? There are a lot of skills in this competition, so yeah, check on that.
Involves physical exertion? Everyone here (with the possible exception of MiniMandaRuth) has driven a couple hundred miles at a stretch. It wears you out, and that's doing the 55mph speed limit. In NASCAR you drive a very large car at very high speeds for a very long distance. Look at those guys when they get out of their cars--they are at least as worn out as a basketball player after a game.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Thanks jmowreader

Gosh, I get tired of the "pile on NASCAR" stuff that appears on DU now and then. NASCAR may have it's roots in moonshining, but it's come a long way. I dare anyone who thinks all it is is driving around and around in a circle (or oval) to try driving one of those cars at nearly 200 miles an hour -- or slower but on a tiny track like Bristol -- with similar cars around them, sometimes less than an inch from the car in front of them, and see how well they do. You have to have strength, stamina, laser eyesight, and very quick reflexes. "Joe Sixpack" who spends most of his time in the recliner would not be able to drive a NASCAR racecar very well -- nor would the majority of us. Not without lots and lots of practice.

[laheina]

12. The first time that I saw Junior put a

"donut" on some guys door who had pissed him off, I stopped bagging on NASCAR.

I usually don't watch, but it was damn impressive.

[jakefrep]

11. And they get REALLY pissed...

when they cut away from meaningless post-race babble for a golf tournament.

[Initech]

8. The AFA needs to pull those sticks out of their asses.

[SeattleGirl]

10. But, but, they are keeping us on the moral straight and narrow

Oh wait, I guess that explains the sticks up their asses! :rofl:

[Initech]

13. Then again this is James "Spongebob is gay" Dobson we're talking about!