The Real Circle Jerk.....

So since when is driving your car considered a sport??? Is NASCAR really any different then driving to work? Seriously, I fight traffic, dodge cars, "trade paint", position my vehicle, work up a sweat, get stressed, and plan the best attack every day. It's called commuting....not a sport. If NASCAR is a sport then why isn't commuting? It's pretty much the same thing, except your not going around in circles, on purpose, and you're not all going to the same place. I just don't see the sport in it, or if you want just consider commuting a sport, cause it's no different. Everybody on the free way is racing the guy next to them to get home. Nobody wants to take the long way home. Nobody wants to get home slower. We all try to find the fastest rout, the quickest lane, pass the slow guy, cut off the competition, and get home fastest. We try to minimize our "pit stops"...i.e....fuel, maintenance, pee breaks, food. Often we use the radio, TV, cell phone to find out what's going on around us, or more importantly in front of us in order to ensure us the quickest rout possible.....sounds like a pit crew to me. It's not a sport....it's driving. The guys and girls in NASCAR do nothing differently then I do everyday just to get to and from work, except I don't have a sponsor, a flame retardant jump suit, and a fatty ass paycheck waiting for me when I turn my car off. This crap people call a sport is really pissing me off, but I can accept it if I have to. I mean it is competition. And anytime you compete with someone there is a flavor of sport in it, so I can accept it being labeled a sport if I have to. What I cannot accept, however, is how any human with a brain and a clue can say that these individuals that drive these vehicles can be called athletes. ATHLETES!!!! Come on people....are you that desperate to be welcomed into a group of people you look up to? Are we going to start calling hunters athletes too??? I mean hunting is a sport is it not? Are chess players athletes??? Chess is a sport. Just because what you're doing is technically described as a sport does not automatically reward you with the title of being an athlete. It takes exactly zero athletic ability to drive a car...and drive it in circles mind you. Not driving through towns, free ways, up and down hills, dodging busses, trucks, pedestrians, stopping at lights, merging, signaling....for god sakes folks they drive around in a circle for 3 hours. I can put a baby on a swing for half a day, does that make him athletic?? The car is more athletic then the driver. To be an athlete you must be able to do something athletic, like moving for instance. Sitting down and slightly moving your arms is not athletic. I've seen secretaries move more then NASCAR drivers. Delivery boys, waiters, actors show more athletic ability then drivers do. Are cab drivers, bus drivers, pilots, and train engineers athletes? I mean they do operate a vehicle....that is all that race fans need to consider one an athlete, right? I would say the guy that washes the car and the mechanic are closer to an athlete then the guy that sits behind the wheel and presses the gas pedal. What a giant crock of shit this NASCAR crap is. ESPN should be embarrassed for actually putting these people in categories for athlete of the year and other athletic awards. Hand-eye coordination is a huge part of what makes athletes great, but it's usually accompanied with some kind of movement and athletic ability....not sitting and looking!!! Why are NASCAR drivers athletes and truck drivers not. Truckers spend more hours driving tougher vehicles then NASCAR drivers do. But are they praised for their skill? NO! Actually they're often mocked. PATHETIC!! If a NASCAR driver is an athlete then so is any person that plays playstation....heck play a NASCAR video game and you do the exact same thing a real driver does, without smelling like exhaust and regular old red neck stench. This bullshit is a real slap in the face to every real athlete out there that works his/her ass off every day to stay in top physical and athletic condition. It takes more then the ability to keep a fast car going in a circle to be considered athletic. What's next? ESPN going to show competitive house wives grocery shopping and give them all ESPY awards for buying pickled eggs more efficiently then other athletic house wives??? We gonna praise the talents and abilities of accountants and watch as they spend grueling hours tagging along on a calculator and stopping only to clean their glasses and take a piss???? You fuckers suck. Stop making normal every day tasks into sporting events and turning regular untalented people into world class athletes. Just let those who can....do. And all you wanna-be athletes can either play a real sport or do something else, like clean port-a-johns!

Welp, I can barely wait for my drive home now so I can play NASCAR!!! Boogidy-Boogidy!!!