…Because the Indianapolis Colts’ lost to the Saints in the Super Bowl, the sporting world will have to wait at least another year before Peyton Manning has his face chiseled atop Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln.
Funny how an errant, ill-timed “pick-six” pass can instantaneously reduce a fellow from the status of gridiron god to that of gridiron goat cheese.
Frankly, I’m rooting for Peyton to return soon to the Super Bowl, and depart victorious. He seems like one of the sport’s really good guys. For now, the city of New Orleans has some happy news to rally around. Good for them.
…After surviving the spin cycle during last weekend’s ARCA race at Daytona, Danica Patrick will make her debut in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series on Saturday. No word yet on whether she will wear a traditional racing suit or a flame-retardant bikini.
For the moment, Danica’s probably best-known for being featured in last year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition (a feat neither Jimmy Johnson nor Jeff Gordon has yet to match), along with mildly suggestive TV commercials. To date, her on-track success has amounted to winning one Indy Car race in Japan with deft fuel economy. Whether she’s capable of muscling stock cars over ovals for several hundred miles remains to be seen.
The reason she’s in NASCAR now can be summed up in one word: marketing. Once the fastest-growing spectator sport in America, NASCAR has stagnated in recent years and motor racing’s royalty are desperate to recapture the spotlight, even if it means using a woman more suited to “The Bachelorette” than a super-charged Chevrolet.
Janet Guthrie, Lyn St. James and Sarah Fisher – all of whom took their turns at competing in the Indianapolis 500 – never got an invite from NASCAR. They must’ve flunked the bikini test!
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