Nascar

[f6john]

Well we all know there was no racing this weekend but Fox broadcast the Richmond 400 from 1986. It is a real hoot. Half mile track , mostly all steel factory bodies, and just regular steel guardrails on the outside. Some of the best racing I've ever seen. Earnhardt and Waltrip going at it among others. Watching the last 75 laps now.

[Serk]

If you dump half a pack of Skittles in the toilet and flush, it's just like a virtual NASCAR race..... Just saying.....

[f6john]

Not for me. Got one of those new toilets that just goes glug glug and down she goes!

[Jess from VA]

It's all old sports on the sports channels now.

I watched a whole baseball game of Detroit v Yankees, back in June 1976 on a packed Monday night home game with Mark Fidrych (The Bird) starting and pitching a complete game, winning 5-1.

Fidrych became a national sensation talking to the ball (out loud) on the mound, and running around congratulating his teammates for great defensive plays, and that was the game that started it all off.

I remembered watching that game at home that day and thinking, what a nut job.  



That year, Fidrych won the AL Rookie of the Year Award and was named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit baseball writers. He led all of MLB in ERA (2.34) .

[Alpha Dog]

It's all old sports on the sports channels now.

I watched a whole baseball game of Detroit v Yankees, back in June 1976 on a packed Monday night home game with Mark Fidrych (The Bird) starting and pitching a complete game, winning 5-1.

Fidrych became a national sensation talking to the ball (out loud) on the mound, and running around congratulating his teammates for great defensive plays, and that was the game that started it all off.

I remembered watching that game at home that day and thinking, what a nut job.  



That year, Fidrych won the AL Rookie of the Year Award and was named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit baseball writers. He led all of MLB in ERA (2.34) .

Dang Jess. Wish I had found that.  I also remember watching that game and became a huge Fidrych fan.  He use to fill the stands when he pitched that year.  Back then the Tigers only broadcasted 40 games a year, but I would listen to Ernie Harwell call the games on my transitor radio.    Then the following spring training while goofing around shagging balls in the outfield he blew out his knee and was never the same pitcher.    Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[signart]

Bring back Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Merideth games and I'll start watching MNF.
Bum Phillips and Earl the Pearl Cambell

[Psychotic Bovine]

I'll be honest, this race was entertaining. (to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5Jhjo_xyg

[Serk]

I'll be honest, this race was entertaining. (to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5Jhjo_xyg

Here, have some more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lII00_v5khU

[The emperor has no clothes]

Bring back Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Merideth games and I'll start watching MNF.
Bum Phillips and Earl the Pearl Cambell

[baldo]

It's all old sports on the sports channels now.

I watched a whole baseball game of Detroit v Yankees, back in June 1976 on a packed Monday night home game with Mark Fidrych (The Bird) starting and pitching a complete game, winning 5-1.

Fidrych became a national sensation talking to the ball (out loud) on the mound, and running around congratulating his teammates for great defensive plays, and that was the game that started it all off.

I remembered watching that game at home that day and thinking, what a nut job.  



That year, Fidrych won the AL Rookie of the Year Award and was named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit baseball writers. He led all of MLB in ERA (2.34) .

A local boy that done good.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fidrych

After he retired from baseball, he went back to the family business of trucking. He was known locally as a real, down-to-earth guy, helping anyone that needed it. He wasn't too far from my hometown, everyone knew him. He met a very premature end while working on one of his trucks. His hooded sweatshirt was grabbed by a spinning PTO and choked him, dying from asphyxiation.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baseball-all-star-killed-in-truck-accident

[Psychotic Bovine]

I'll be honest, this race was entertaining. (to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5Jhjo_xyg

Here, have some more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lII00_v5khU

Yeah, i saw quite a few of them. 

[Charlie McCready]

Serk has it all figured out. Nascar isn't what it was way back when....   If I watch it's just near the end to see the crashes....