I think Bubba the Love Sponge has the rights to the word bamboozled
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That should be fun to prove in court... I thought that one belonged to Bob Lani...
To the media coverage, the world was not created in one day. I think there was a media conference call earlier this week..
A media confrence called for this week??
Don't you think they should have been on the horse the SECOND that people's livelyhoods started getting affected by this thing (read: Melanie's feet being nailed to the NON-PAYOUT floor when she and others in her situation couldn't PROGRESS any further, no matter how well they did DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE RACING SEASON?? At that point, this whole thing should have been in high gear- they had 17 races to have their ducks in a row, just as the racers had the same 17 races to make it in or not...
I will wait and see how this pans out before I throw the NHRA under the bus.
I am over the fact that someone that may or may not deserve it will get the big check and the ring... like the pro-C/D folks are saying: Everyone out there knew what the deal was, and they had a choice.. Race here or race somewhere else, but don't whine about rules that were in place... My gripe is that this was "shoved down our throats", as it has so eloquently been described by so many, as opposed to it being force-fed to the masses that we, as the long time fans, had been told it would be by Glendora.
Preaching to the choir is always a useless act- if anything, the whole thing may just put some long term fans ON that bus to see-ya-latersville... The Countdown was supposed to bring new fans to the sport, but it seems the only reason "
all the new fans and additional media sources all of which are talking about DRAG RACING now" may have anything to say about the sport is because of two tragic and one near-tragic accidents and the fact that Papa John happens to make good lookin kids...
I saw NO additional coverage of our sport this year- nothing out of the ordinary...I was at the WR Grace building in the late 70's when they had a fleet of pro teams parked in their plaza- this year's GMA with the girls before the "Summernationals"
was only different because it was
SHORTER in legnth and had TV cameras- something that any 14 year old with a camcorder and a membership to YouTube can do and get more viewers...
The C/D was put in place EXCLUSIVELY to generate more external coverage for the sport, and NHRA has had all year to do that, yet here we are at Vegas2 with the same amount of national coverage (none) and a bunch of people that all love the same thing bickering with each other here.. Not to mention that there will be some teams next year that will be running on LESS of someone elses moola because of all this- for everything from lack of "post-season" coverage (everything past Indy) causing sponsors to renegotiate their ROI deals based on TV coverage, to
EIGHT teams that got nudged off of the season ending $$ teet because they don't pick up the Association's bonus check on the big stage, based on where they finished IN SEPTEMBER...
If it was all about the media (it had to have been- the racing seemed just fine before..), then someone has got a lot of explaining to do as to why they shouldn't be tossed under the bus
