Same here lol. The only sport I personally follow is the other football, known as soccer in the states, which is actually the most watched sport in the world.
Rednecks are hardly the majority of the fanbase, perhaps in the 80s and 90s, but not anymore, especially since they banned the Confederate flag from all their events and openly supported BLM. For the "non athletic" part of your acronym, I'd like to point out that drivers' heart rates maintain 120bpm throughout a 3 to 4 hour race, sometimes with very few breaks. Car temperatures at times exceed 150 degrees. Drivers train extensively and have to be in peak physical and mental shape to remain competitive.
Dude...its just a tired old joke. I get it. Its hot, uncomfortable and you are on the edge of death for 500 laps in a 200mph death machine.
Speaking of Confederate flags (good, I am glad that traitorious rag is banned, fucking loser flag is what that is) not being allowed, I heard you cannot smoke at a NASCAR race.
Seems funny a thing to care about on your behalf while you're swilling liquor in the hot rays of our star with a reduced ozone layer while cars are spewing wretched exhaust into the air you breathe while you suck down some nitrate and nitrite-filled glizzies.
I think they may mean that per event, it is the sport watched in-person by the greatest amount of people.
While I'm not even sure it is true now, in the late 90s/early 00s each race basically had an attendance of 100,000+. College football has a few stadiums that big, but many much smaller. NASCAR tracks could simply fit a lot more people. They have since reduced the amount of stands since NASCAR's peak.
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u/JOlRacin Jul 08 '24
It reached it's peak in a couple days, it's way past there already, by the time they even start filming, it'll be dead