OT Well NASCAR fans, this Stinks!

[DARTH POOH]

What a bunch of "Shit" [img]confused.gif[/img]
<font size="6">On-air curse could cost Earnhardt Jr. points</font>
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. took over the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead with a popular victory in Sunday's EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, but he faces a possible penalty for cursing during the post-race television interview.

During the interview in Victory Lane with NBC's Matt Yocum, Earnhardt Jr. was asked what it meant to win for the fifth time at Talladega. Earnhardt Jr. replied, "It don't mean s--- right now. Daddy's won here 10 times."

NBC later issued an apology for the inappropriate language. After several media requests, NASCAR is reviewing the post-race videotape, according to spokesman Mike Zizzo. Any penalty would be handed down Tuesday at the earliest, Zizzo said.

There is precedence for Earnhardt Jr. being fined and/or docked points. Two Busch Series drivers were penalized for inappropriate language earlier this season.

Ron Hornaday was fined $10,000 and docked 25 points for "use of inappropriate language" during a live radio interview during a Busch race at Dover in June. Also, Johnny Sauter was penalized the same amount of money and points for the same infraction after a Busch race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March.

Earnhardt Jr. pleaded his case in the Talladega press box later Sunday.

"I hope they understand it was in jubilation," Earnhardt Jr. "I know that me and those other guys that got fined let it slip, but it's two different circumstances.

"When you're happy and joyous about something and it happens, it's different than being angry and cursing in anger. Of course, we don't want to promote that."

"But if a guy's in Victory Lane, jumping up and down and lets a 's---' slip out, I don't think that's something we need to go hammering down on."

Earnhardt Jr. leads Kurt Busch by 13 points after Sunday's race, with Jeff Gordon third, 61 points behind.

NASCAR president Mike Helton warned drivers at Daytona in February to watch their manners after the Federal Communications Commission began a crackdown of profane behavior resulting from the Super Bowl halftime show, where singer Janet Jackson had her breast exposed on live television.

The FCC hit CBS with more than $500,000 in fines for the incident.

[Leegeta]

Oh jesus...

[sculpey]

This country is getting so damn uptight it's just ridiculous.

[Leegeta]

It really is..

[0193081]

Only in America...

[bonedust]

the tyraid of cencorship since the Super Bowl incident is ri-goddamn-diculous.


how can they not expect a hillbilly to curse? come on...

[DARTH POOH]

The stupidest part is we're talking about a guy who slipped out a cuss word during a moment of fun. Now I could have seen them getting upset if he was angry..talking about another driver and said "The mother-fucker put me into the wall!!!"
Being a "Family oriented sport" I understand where a modicum of decorum is called for, but this isn't going to damage a 3 year old for life,
nor would most people give a "shit" about it.
What's ridiculous is the double standard, they can show enough violence to gag a rat on the 6:00 news and countless prime time TV shows , but a guy says "shit" out of happiness and
it's "hand out the fines, and take away points!!!" [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

[bonedust]

i promise that 63% of the people watching the race were wearing a 'shit happens' wife beater....hypocrites!

[GauntletMoose]

$10,000 for using a swear?! Gimme a fuckin' break. This country needs to lighten up.

[StV]

...I was pissed that the asshole announcer apologized for him in the first place. Who the hell is he to be apologizing for Jr? Like he really did anything wrong!

...this truly pisses me off!

...the drivers should get together and tell the media they won't do interviews anymore. End of story! See what happens then!

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ October 03, 2004 10:32 PM: Message edited by: StV ]</font>