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(WOT) Way Off Topic Entry: The Rising Popularity of NASCAR

I am wandering far afield today. It must be all the green around me. But here are some way-off-topic thoughts concerning the Rising Popularity of NASCAR.

I’m not talking about that tired old argument about why someone would watch cars drive in circles. The same type of logic could be applied to why would someone watch 2 women spend hours hitting a fuzzy ball back and forth over a net or why why would someone watch a couple of men with 16 pound balls and wrist thingies use those balls and wrist thingies to try to knock down ten motionless pins while swilling Miller. If you put it on TV, someone will watch it. That goes without saying.

What I want to try to figure out is the growing popularity of NASCAR. What was once a redneck sport followed almost exclusively by men with beer guts, pickups, and rebel flags whose wives had jeans two sizes too small and tweety bird tatoos on their breasts, and who could kick their husbands’ butts, is now mainstream–or at least almost mainstream.

People with several initials after their names and all their teeth are now watching NASCAR. People who have never even considered “just putting a pinch between their cheek and gum” now have leather Dale Jr. jackets. It is unprecedented.

I have a few theories I would like to investigate with the great minds of those who you who are enlightened enough to read my daily wisdom

Theory 1) The rising popularity of NASCAR has less do with NASCAR itself than with the rising popularity of redneckism. People want to be rednecks, or at least associated wth rednecks, but they want to be able to do it without giving up dental hygiene. NASCAR is an easy solution.

Theory 2) God is so pleased that they got rid of cigarette sponsorships, that He blessed them with wide-spread popularity and success.

Theory 3) A few years ago, evolution came to a grinding halt and began reversing itself.

Let’s get to work on this one, folks.