Thomas Wright wrote:
> Please don't lump all Americans in one category. (There's a lot of us
> and we've got every variety - the good ones and the bad ones.)
I'm an American, and I'm one who did the lumping, except that my anger
was directed squarely at the f-heads who were throwing things. If they
weren't American, as your info below indicates, that dials things down a
bit but doesn't erase my feelings completely. If you look at the
history of American sports fans, it is pretty damn ugly. Do we really
need to see that Pistons-Pacers clip again?
> If you noticed, the bottle and can throwing stopped as quickly as it
> started.
I did notice that, and I was pretty happy, but after how many bottles
had hit the track? SPEED only showed one, but I knew there had to be a
few more than that.
Do you really think that those high, curved-inward-at-the-top fences all
around the NASCAR circuits are solely to keep car parts out of the crowd?
> This is because a majority of the people in attendance forced
> the small minority to straighten up. I feel somewhat proud to be one of
> the people who risked life and limb against some drunk idiot who wanted
> to launch his beer to the detriment of the race drivers.
I hope that's the case, because as usual the TV only showed us the small
minority. And I guess in the end I'm happy you showed some restraint,
because if it had been I, said drunk idiot would have needed a dentist;
he would have been the one risking life and limb, not I.
> Through luck and skillful diplomacy (George Bush could have learned a
> lot in a few seconds!) I was able to persuade the nice gentleman from
> (country not named but it was NOT the US.) that further beer propulsion
> would be extremely detrimental to the sport and his freedom to walk
> about with the general population.
I wonder if he acts like that in his home country.
> I hope we get a real F1 race next year.
I kind of hope we don't, to be honest. It sucks to make the fans pay
for somebody else's incompetence, but their image here is so tarnished
now that a race next year would be full of protesting, probably quite a
bit of boycotting, etc., etc. It would do nothing for F1.
Now, if they had the balls to have the race at Indy next year and GIVE
AWAY THE TICKETS, that's another story. But I have the feeling that
Bernie's, Charlie's, and Max' balls wouldn't make a crowd in a teaspoon,
so that won't happen.
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