As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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Dear Lewis:
I know you love NASCAR, you ole forum baiter. You're probably watching it on that golf cart you're zooming around in practicing that truly impossible "sport" or on that built in TV/DVD player in your SUV. :rofl: Let's just put NASCAR in the non sport category and proceed to argue about other important sports topics. I'm sure all NASCAR drivers can run sub 5 40s and do sub 4:00 miles. I bet they can even break 50 in the 100 free if pressed. They are truly amazing non athletes.
Now, as you know, I do agree with you about soccer, the scourge of youth sports.
Fortress
Although I may agree that NASCAR (or my personal favorite, F1) may not be a "sport" in the tradition of swimming, track & field, or even "ball" sports, from what I have been able to learn, being a driver takes tremendous physical conditioning. F1 in particular puts about the same stresses on the body that you get in an F-16, only in shorter and far more frequent doses. Not to mention the quick reaction and mental concentration skills they must possess. There is also a great deal of teamwork involved (take a close look at a pit stop sometime), which is at least on the same level as, say, football.
I think you would find that drivers at that level are clearly more "athletic" than you may imagine.
Ken
Dear Lewis:
I know you love NASCAR, you ole forum baiter. You're probably watching it on that golf cart you're zooming around in practicing that truly impossible "sport" or on that built in TV/DVD player in your SUV. :rofl: Let's just put NASCAR in the non sport category and proceed to argue about other important sports topics. I'm sure all NASCAR drivers can run sub 5 40s and do sub 4:00 miles. I bet they can even break 50 in the 100 free if pressed. They are truly amazing non athletes.
Now, as you know, I do agree with you about soccer, the scourge of youth sports.
Fortress
Although I may agree that NASCAR (or my personal favorite, F1) may not be a "sport" in the tradition of swimming, track & field, or even "ball" sports, from what I have been able to learn, being a driver takes tremendous physical conditioning. F1 in particular puts about the same stresses on the body that you get in an F-16, only in shorter and far more frequent doses. Not to mention the quick reaction and mental concentration skills they must possess. There is also a great deal of teamwork involved (take a close look at a pit stop sometime), which is at least on the same level as, say, football.
I think you would find that drivers at that level are clearly more "athletic" than you may imagine.
Ken
