Full Throttle

Subtitled: A Contrarian’s Point of View.

The print/online media and the racing blogosphere has been abuzz with yards of Fish Wrap column space and a Gazillion-Trillion megabits of bandwidth covering the hooligan behavior on display at Talladega.

I’m not here to condemn the behavior- that’s been done - I’m on scene to embrace it. I’m advocating taking positive steps to at long last cast aside the stereotypical NASCAR Redneck label.

It’s time for a new label; NASCAR Hooliganism.

What better time for rebranding to occur than during the the Queen of England’s visit to Virginia [is for Hooligans] site of this weeks NEXTEL Cup stop in Richmond.

As the Royal Head of Insanely Stupid Behavior on football and Cricket pitches from the U.K. stretching across the entire European Union and occasionally the Home of Peter she can lead by example.

Step up I say. Step up and ensure she attend all the events scheduled at RIR this weekend and RaceFest at the James Center.

Certify “Her People” have the proper physical attributes to lug coolers chocked full of beer brewed in James City County and lack sufficient folds in their gray matter to waste perfectly good beer on a hot rubber encrusted tarmac!

It’s far past time to go from Jeff Foxworthy’s, “If you think the last four words of the national anthem are ‘Gentlemen, start your engines,’ you might be a redneck.”

To something akin to, “If you think shouting ‘Gooooooooooooooooooool’ and littering any raceway with foreign objects up to and including your neighbors ignorant Beer Can Helmet you just might be a NASCAR Hooligan.”

On the other hand you could be, as Tony Stewart has suggested, a WWE fan.

Or, auditioning for a part on MadTV.

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