Only 27 Days

[MajorMike]

Until the Daytona 500.

[LEONARD]

Funny bit...keep it up...

[MajorMike]

Have to get some sports in the forum, or it'd just be another chat forum.

[LEONARD]

Nothing says sport like sitting behind the wheel, shifting very little, and usually just turning to the left... :fro

[spurs=bling]

:violin

[dallaskd]

Nothing says sport like sitting behind the wheel, shifting very little, and usually just turning to the left... :fro

id like to see you get the balls to drive nascar

[dallaskd]

Nothing says sport like sitting behind the wheel, shifting very little, and usually just turning to the left... :fro

id like to see you get the balls to drive nascar

[dallaskd]

**double post**

[Mr Dio]

id like to see you get the balls to drive nascar


:lol

You're saying to the MMA Master?? How dare you! :lol

Prob have one of his boyfriend chimps reply in 3, 2,...

[dawn]

Can't Wait!!!!

[LEONARD]

id like to see you get the balls to drive nascar

Did I say they don't have balls? I said it's not a sport and they're not athletes...

You have to have a strong upper body and that's about it...I've done 10 laps at 140 mph in a Busch car and was surprised how much strength it took.

[MajorMike]

The conditioning it takes to drive a stock car 600 miles at 200 mph under a constant 4-5 Gs is insane. Add to that, many of them run double and triple duty on a weekend with a Cup, Busch and truck ride. I sure wouldn't walk up to Jeff Burton or Ryan Newman or Kevin Harvick and tell them they weren't an athlete.

[MajorMike]

And, oh by the way...

Only 20 days til the Great American Race.

[LEONARD]

The conditioning it takes to drive a stock car 600 miles at 200 mph under a constant 4-5 Gs is insane. Add to that, many of them run double and triple duty on a weekend with a Cup, Busch and truck ride. I sure wouldn't walk up to Jeff Burton or Ryan Newman or Kevin Harvick and tell them they weren't an athlete.

Which race is 600 miles @ 200 mph and 4-5 g's the entire race??

They're "conditioned" to drive under certain race conditions, but they're not athletes. Some of them are athletic but in general, Nascar drivers are NOT athletes...

[MajorMike]

The Coca-Cola 600 (formerly World 600) is a six hundred mile (966 km) stock car race held annually at Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) in Charlotte, North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend. It is the longest NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race and in fact is the longest regularly-scheduled automobile race conducted on an oval track anywhere in the world, and just 21 miles shorter than major sportscar endurance 1,000 kilometer races.

[MajorMike]

They're "conditioned" to drive under certain race conditions, but they're not athletes. Some of them are athletic but in general, Nascar drivers are NOT athletes...

So a 350 lb offensive lineman is more of an athlete?


But as players' waistlines grow, so have the health risks.

There's also the risk that comes from being a large person doing strenuous physical activity in oppressive conditions. Another nine players died last year from heat stroke, dehydration or heart failure while playing.

And the dangers don't end when the pads come off.

Lugging that extra weight around all the time increases the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases later in life.

Heavy players are also at higher risk for sleep apnea, which interrupts breathing during sleep and can produce an irregular heartbeat and other cardiovascular problems. A recent survey published in theNew England Journal of Medicine showed NFL linemen to be about 13 times more likely to have the condition than men who don't play football.

It's no wonder the average life expectancy of an NFL player is 55 - about 22 years less than the average American.

[LEONARD]

The Coca-Cola 600 (formerly World 600) is a six hundred mile (966 km) stock car race held annually at Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) in Charlotte, North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend. It is the longest NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race and in fact is the longest regularly-scheduled automobile race conducted on an oval track anywhere in the world, and just 21 miles shorter than major sportscar endurance 1,000 kilometer races.

So it's 600 miles non-stop at 4-5 g's? :lol

You're over-stating things a bit is my point...pit stops, wrecks, etc...


So a 350 lb offensive lineman is more of an athlete?

Yes...any offensive lineman is...