Nascar and/or Indy fans...what do u think of this?

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A friend of mine who is a huge Nascar had this statement to say. What do u guys think about it? Agree or disagree? I'm going to ask non-Nascar fans as well and compare the two.

I've been told that racing is not a sport. I've been told that it's just a bunch of cars going around in circles. Both of those statements are laughable and show the ignorance of the person saying them. But the one statement that has always confused me, is when I'm told that they aren't athletes. They just drive a car. They aren't doing anything physical. Now anyone that knows anything about the s...port knows how factually incorrect that statement is, but lets take that at face value. It doesn't get more physical than auto racing. Football you take a tackle. Baseball you get to hit a ball with a stick. Dan Wheldon was a race car driver. He didn't take a tackle and get up for the next play. He didn't swing at a ball and then go drink some Gatorade. Dan Wheldon lost his life in his sport. He's not getting ready to look at film to fix the defense. His wife is making his funeral arrangements. Her husband is gone. His siblings are mourning the loss of their brother. His kids will not only grow up without a father, but probably won't even remember his existence. He won't get to see them grow up. He doesn't get to have the "there's always next year" mentality that other athletes get to have when they get injured or have a bad game. His wife will have to explain to her kids why their daddy isn't coming back. He died participating in a sport full of other guys that like Wheldon, aren't considered athletes by some people. You go take a tackle, pop some pain pills, HGH, and steroids because apparently that makes you an athlete. That's what's considered physical. Dan Wheldon is dead. It doesn't get any more physical than that.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

People die sitting on the toilet.  That doesn't make shitting a sport.

ellie · Answer

So, since soldiers sometimes don't come home, I guess by your logic, war is a "sport."

Your whole rant is full of fail - are you seriously suggesting that people die in Nascar as routinely as football players take a tackle, or that dying is to Nascar what at-bats are to baseball? That's just utter nonsense.

It's the tackle, not the pain pill that you take after the tackle that makes the athlete. It's not "considered physical"... it IS the very definition of physical.

Sorry. There's no part of your "question" that makes sense.

Added - yes, I read your disclaimer, but as someone else said, it's a pretty long "quote," and I just didn't buy it.

? · Answer

unfavourable race. The Indy 500 is the only open wheel race I watch each and each year, and as we communicate confirmed why. It grew to become into harm after harm... no longer that NASCAR doesn;t have a lot of those, even even though it grew to become into overboard as we communicate. ... and the autos are so flimsy. C'mon, if Danica have been in a Cup motor vehicle and gotten bumped on pit highway, she could have been completely superb... no longer completely out of the race. The announcers are very severe on Danica for particular,they continuously as much as date us on the place she grew to become into on the song and continuously letting us pay attention in to her conversations. If she have been a contender for the win, that could have been cool. yet she never even challenged all people contained in the right 5. they have nevertheless have been given some solid drivers over there, yet I didn;t see something as we communicate that could make me evaluate starting to be a Indycar fan.

Nostradammit · Answer

I don't follow your reasoning.First of all, both football players and basketball players have died during games...and, while we're at it, many a fat man has played football.
  I certainly think racing is a sport but it has nothing to do with the chance of dying while racing.They are athletes because of the specialized skills that are needed to be able to execute it properly.  And, no, not everybody has or can develop those skills to the required level.  Its a sport because they compete.  The fact that mistakes can be fatal just makes it a dangerous sport.

Anonymous · Answer

Racing is an activity...not a sport. Just like golf...it's an activity.
Go ahead and mourn Dan Wheldon if you wish. I feel worse for the family and friends of the 16 year old kid that died over the weekend from a hit he took while playing high school football.

Anonymous · Answer

Thousands more die like that on highways, cupcake. Your reasoning isn't very persuasive.

Being killed in car accidents doesn't make a person an athlete.

By the way...please do add details - just for the sake of completeness - indicating what exactly you feel the person who posted the second comment is required to be grateful to or for, that you would accuse her of being "an ingrate."

Please do let us know what gratitude you expect her to show, and to whom.

And just for the record, please let us know exactly where in the Community Guidelines or the Terms of Service are the rules governing gratitude. That would be very helpful to me. Thanks so much.

Asker - it wasn't the sentiment I objected to...it was your outing yourself as a reporter...were you "quoting a friend" on that, too?

I have PMS and a gun · Answer

I feel your pain.  My morbidly obese neighbor exploded during a genetically modified hot dog eating tournament.  Very dangerous sport that is.  I feel so sorry for his pets, they'll probably never see the crust of another fat-ridden bacon-laden triple Whopper with cheese again :(

Anonymous · Answer

My Cuzin Billy Bob Jnr says, if they warnt drarvin s farst they wouldnt have been no trubble, but hell the fire an smoke was somthin warnt it, I jist bet ittl do wonders for the ticket sales us rednecks only goin along to see the crashes

? · Answer

I just put up Nascar vids when I need to go to bed, works better than any sedative

Nick · Answer

its because he was driving a car. there is nothing physical about that. your driving a car everyday to work. its the same thing he was just going faster. a fat man can drive in nascar but cant play football. its not a sport. you nascar fans are all swingers, hicks, and inbreds. nascar is the only thing simple enough to fascinate you.

Anonymous · Answer

Being a bad driver doesn't make you an athlete.

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