The race footage in the Amazon Earnhardt doc is so badass. Visually incredible. A symphony of speed. It felt different back then. Grittier.
Maybe because it wasn't so readily available as it is now. Maybe because there was a sense to us that NASCAR gave shine to rural America, authentically Southern, something we kinda knew about all along that the rest of the world was just discovering. Like we were on the leading rough edge of a new frontier.
The personalities and the conflict and the refusal to back down. Rivalries that didn't end with a text message apology. They lasted years. Books with chapters.
There was a mystique about speed back then, too.
We've lost that a bit. We forget drivers are gladiators. It takes a special cat to sail it off into 1 at 200 mph with no guarantee you'll come out of Turn 2.
NASCAR is experiencing a rebirth right now. I watch every race and I feel the resurgence. Awesome racers wrestling a challenging machine. But that footage from the 90s put me in a nostalgic blender.
Those motors at full song. The suspension travel and the body shapes and Goodwrench and DuPont and Quality Care and Kellogg's and MGD and Coors Light, stopped me in my tracks.
It all felt so important. Motorsports Mozart.
Aaron Rodgers just teed off on the NFL MVP voter who said he wouldn’t vote for him because of off field issues. “He’s a bum…His problem is that I’m not vaccinated.” This is great, enjoy: https://t.co/d1t3THdwZB
It really is remarkable to see how masking and covid vaccine requirements have zero impact. Yet continue to be enforced so forcefully by idiot politicians who refuse to look at the data.
AARON RODGERS: "When Trump in 2020 was championing these vaccines, what did the left say? Don't trust the vaccine. Don't get the vaccine... What happened? Biden wins and everything flips. Shouldn't that give you a little bit of pause?... Isn't this about health, not politics?"