News flash! It's still raining in Brooklyn, Michigan. I sit 55 miles away and, looking at weather maps listening to local and Weather Channel predictions, I think I'll start planning for a Thanksgiving that includes the traditional Thanksgiving day Detroit Lions football game, turkey and a NASCAR race. Any comments that the football game and turkey are one-and-the-same are simply cheap shots and beneath the dignity of anyone who reads this blog.
No chance of a race today. Tomorrow and Wednesday look very doubtful. Selfishly, I'm hoping for that November, season-ender that's within driving distance. There's at least as much chance of good weather then as there is for a dry, full length race this week. Marc thinks studded tires are in the offing. I really don't care.
I missed Dave Despain's great Wind Tunnel Sunday night. I'm told that Robin "I hate NASCAR" Miller claimed that the Joe Gibbs Racing to Toyota move is a done deal. The Black Flag thinks Gibbs may have enough on their plate - what with adding Kyle the younger Busch to the coach's locker room. I think grabbing the top spot in Toyota's hierarchy would be a brilliant move for JGR.
I thoroughly enjoyed Dale, the movie. It is the best sports documentary that I have ever seen. I saw it with a friend who is a much bigger Earnhardt fan than me and a theater full of fans like him. I doubt that there was a dry eye in the house at the end. Paul Newman's narration was perfect. The film was touching and funny. The trailer, when Earnhardt talks about being passed, is priceless.
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I shall refrain from any commentary on the Thanksgivibg football game that would be cruel....It looks like the JGR to Toyota thing looks stronger everyday...and I agree it would be a brilliant move on both parts....If the race is in November I just wondered if they have dogsled parking...
Posted by: robert bourne | August 20, 2007 at 05:07 PM
I think the Gibbs/Toyota deal is done too. Everything in Tony Stewart's souvenir trailor this weekend at MIS that had a Chevy symbol on it, or a likeness of his car that indicated it was a Chevy, was on sale.
Posted by: 4ever3 | August 20, 2007 at 06:21 PM
Guys, Bob's news about the suvies is the best evidence yet of the Gibbs deal. Robert, your football kindness will be remembered. And I did hold up the 3 fingers for you Bob at the end of Dale. Go see it - anyway you can.
Posted by: Charlie | August 20, 2007 at 07:26 PM
Charlie, Robert it may be "beneath" your combined "dignity" but it isn't for me.
The Lions and turkeys have been forever entwined since the days of a Greg Landry 76 yard quarterback sneak as a rookie against the Packers. 4 rings in 73 years! Need say more?
(save your cracks about age will ya I bruise easily!)
Hmmm..., a Smoke Discount Emporium? Yep, looks like a done deal doesn't it.
Posted by: marcm | August 20, 2007 at 08:02 PM