NASCAR Driver Guessing Game
I’ll provides a few quotes and anecdotes, you provide the answer as to who said driver is. And note, those with sensitive ears and eyes may want to look away.
I’ll start with the most astounding quote in my book because it comes from Jim Hunter, Hunter of the “vanilla ice cream is too racy for my tastes,” and the “any answer is a good answer as long as it’s noncommittal” when talking to the press.
“He’s been an asshole at times,” Jim Hunter.
On the plane ride home from a track he plays computer mah-jongg and listens to Led Zeppelin. His fridge at home contains a six-pack of Schlitz and some canned tangerine wedges marinated in rum.
There is virtually no reading material in his house, “You want to hide something from me?” he says. “Put it in a book.”
This driver looks at the screen during quals, and another car’s time pops up. “There’s the dickhead,” he says to no one in particular.
Said of Dale Jr. while watching the spring NNS event at Talladega and wearing tighty-whiteys and eating microwaved Chef Boyardee ravioli: “Shit, you can’t blame Junior, even if it’s his fault.”
There’s so much more in the eight page article, but as I said it might not be safe for sensitive ears and eyes, it is Rolling Stone afterall.
So, before you look who is the driver?
I won’t spoil it for your other readers but frankly I was quite disappointed in the article. If what they wrote is true, I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. He might be a great driver and humanitarian but this article paints an entirely different picture of him as a human. If it’s true.
I agree with TSRFan, it completely skips his incredible generosity. Apparently it’s way cooler to write about swearing, chicks and sticking it to the man.
A question for both of you, how soon well we see Stewart file papers on the intentions to sue Rolling Stone for character assassination etc, etc as a result of this article?
Put another way, I suspect Rolling Stone is of a higher caliber than say the National Inquirer (although they to can be right, ask John Edwards) and wouldn’t pull Tony Stewart, not to mention Jim Hunter quotes out of thin air.
Obviously you two don’t agree, your choice, but I tend to think many of the drivers are just like us and you would see similar things by other drivers as they were “unmasked” by the magazine.
And Mike, you make a good point they did omit Tony’s good side for lack of a better term, and assuming they even went that way during the interview.
But the reality is the vast majority of the mags readership wouldn’t be swayed by that I suspect and hold negative opinions of the sport regardless of what was written. On that point, read a couple of the comments on the article, do you really believe some of those nutjobs could be convinced otherwise?
In today’s world if you’re at the top of your game and in the spotlight it’s no longer acceptable to be human.
Don’t ever change Tony, no matter how the bastards try to drag you down. And no I didn’t read the article because I don’t really care. Call me when he’s convicted of criminal or serious civil charges.
That’s pretty much the way i look at it George. Is the Tony in the article what most fans expect? No, but he, like everyone one else puts his pants on one legs at a time.