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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I am not much of a Nascar fan these days but discounting the stamina needed to endure one of their races would not be wise. They are not out for a Sunday drive, let me tell you. Imagine driving a car at 160+ MPH while tailgating another car, totally ignoring the safe following distance rule taught in drivers education! Now there is a car rubbing it's tire up against your front fender that is causing your 160 MPH vehicle to become unstable and you fear that a spin is imminent as may be a trip to the concrete wall.
High stress, high speed, high heat, lots and lots of steering correction, muscles tensed up for hours at a time. It's no picnic. Some time ago Jeff Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya switched cars, JG got into the F1 car and JPM got into the Winston/Nextel Cup Car. JPM said the F1 car was much more difficult to drive and the F1 car is a handful itself.
The last thing I will say is that when you are fatigued and dying at the end of your swimming race the worst that can happen is that your form falls apart and you slow down. If you become fatigued and your form falls apart during a NASCAR race, you could very well kill yourself and others. The stakes are higher without question.
I am not much of a Nascar fan these days but discounting the stamina needed to endure one of their races would not be wise. They are not out for a Sunday drive, let me tell you. Imagine driving a car at 160+ MPH while tailgating another car, totally ignoring the safe following distance rule taught in drivers education! Now there is a car rubbing it's tire up against your front fender that is causing your 160 MPH vehicle to become unstable and you fear that a spin is imminent as may be a trip to the concrete wall.
High stress, high speed, high heat, lots and lots of steering correction, muscles tensed up for hours at a time. It's no picnic. Some time ago Jeff Gordon and Juan Pablo Montoya switched cars, JG got into the F1 car and JPM got into the Winston/Nextel Cup Car. JPM said the F1 car was much more difficult to drive and the F1 car is a handful itself.
The last thing I will say is that when you are fatigued and dying at the end of your swimming race the worst that can happen is that your form falls apart and you slow down. If you become fatigued and your form falls apart during a NASCAR race, you could very well kill yourself and others. The stakes are higher without question.
