clwill
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Here's a hint to increase TV ratings: Shorten the show!! Three hours is to long to expect someone to sit in front of the tube especially in the summer.
Excellent point.
Here's a hint to increase TV ratings: Shorten the show!! Three hours is to long to expect someone to sit in front of the tube especially in the summer.
Judging by this thread I must be one strange 23 year old. I like old american cars, v8's, hotrods, land speed racing, and most of all drag racing and no I did grow up with it. I think there should be a drag race all day and night everyday. But I also thought it was a good idea to have an all day broadcast that shows every class. Though I remember mentioning that once before and Asher trashed that idea.
I must be crazy though.
I will admit though all this negativity about the future of this sport I love so much is very disilusioning and I find it harder and harder to get excited about what I might read on these great message boards anymore.
It's not that I don't like the shows I just can't sit there for that long to watch it. I know they feel obligated to show as many rounds as possible but I prefer to watch the top alcohol coverage instead because it's a shorter more compact show.
I miss that bumbling idiot Paul Page!
How many kids your age are as jazzed about Hot rods as you are?
I must be crazy though.
I will admit though all this negativity about the future of this sport I love so much is very disilusioning and I find it harder and harder to get excited about what I might read on these great message boards anymore.
I think the difference is that you are too young to have experienced "the other side" of the coin.
This reminds me of the music in our generation from the 70's through 90's versus the digitally generated, lack of talent covering "artists" of today.
You can't possibly imagine just how totally screwed you were when it comes to your generation's music. Just as simular, you can't even begin to understand just how screwed over you are right now by the quality of NHRA drag racing right now.
It's not about being negative, it's about helping the NHRA to open their eyes before it's too late in order to save this sport from itself..
If you feel that the status quo is fine, then I'll go away.
It's not about being negative, it's about helping the NHRA to open their eyes before it's too late in order to save this sport from itself..
If you feel that the status quo is fine, then I'll go away.
George, I feel the status quo is just fine, will you go away now? Oh, one more minor thing, would you please take the other deciple of doom with you, of coarse I'm speaking about the self imposed expert of drag racing,Patrick.It's not about being negative, it's about helping the NHRA to open their eyes before it's too late in order to save this sport from itself..
If you feel that the status quo is fine, then I'll go away.
I think the difference is that you are too young to have experienced "the other side" of the coin.
This reminds me of the music in our generation from the 70's through 90's versus the digitally generated, lack of talent covering "artists" of today.
You can't possibly imagine just how totally screwed you were when it comes to your generation's music. Just as simular, you can't even begin to understand just how screwed over you are right now by the quality of NHRA drag racing in it's current 1,000' joke of a format without a single rising, relevant, recognizable national star..
When the NHRA and Diamond P productions aired NHRA Drag racing on TV, you guarded the remote with a gun. Today, you turn the channel to something with more drama, like Billy The Exterminater.
When the NHRA circus came to town in the 80's and 90's, if you didn't have a reserved ticket, you might not sit at all. In Fact, the fence line was four deep the entire quarter mile.
Now, nobody cares because there is really nothing exciting to watch.
George, I feel the status quo is just fine, will you go away now? Oh, one more minor thing, would you please take the other deciple of doom with you, of coarse I'm speaking about the self imposed expert of drag racing,Patrick.![]()
The Fact remains, you either support this sport the way it is, or you don't! Pretty simple really...if any of you think NHRA is going to fly you out tomorrow to Glendora to hear your suggestions you need to get a life! It ain't happening...![]()
It seems ALL of us are consumed with or rather Obsessed with the notion that unless this sports' Popularity explodes beyond all of our expectations. Then it is doomed to certain Failure!
Jon Asher's column while making some valid points, is nothing New! How long have kids been playing video games, 15-20 years? Yet how many Junior Dragsters are there in this country, I bet it's in the Thousands!
I think Drag race fans cannot shake the NASCAR envy syndrome! The fact that since Major NASCAR races draw over 150,000 fans, why isn't NHRA? Or since the Daytona 500 pulls a 7.0 Ratings share (Just a guess...) why isn't NHRA pulling those numbers??
One thing I would have loved to see in the Asher Column is; where did all those Jr. Dragster racers go the past 20 years? Why did they quit? That's
the best place to start don't you think?
I will admit though all this negativity about the future of this sport I love so much is very disilusioning and I find it harder and harder to get excited about what I might read on these great message boards anymore.
Since nobody commented on this the first time, here you go!