*First, let me say that I haven't bothered reading all the posts
regarding, what I'm sure, has been well hashed. However, I've been
sitting on this for a long time*


I open this installment with a disclaimer to my more
conservative readers: You may wish to move on to another article.
The contents herein will probably cause severe aggravation and
pulsation of your rarely used, grey matter. However, if you chose to
engage in the viewing of this prose, you do so at your own risk.

Without a doubt by now, all have been discussing Tony Stewart's
emotionally-charged comment during his victory interview after
winning the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard this Sunday passed.
Besides confessing the fact that I laughed a loud when I was by
myself after hearing the term "bullshit" roll of of his tongue like
Shakespherian poetry, it was also an easy realization that the NASCAR
Nazis would indeed be armed with yet more ammunition against
him...and would use it.
Only then did the smile fall from my face and I became pensive when
considering the other televised professional sports.

I ask you this: When was the last time you watched an NFL
game? Ever notice how the new attractions are the sideline
microphones, or better yet, the referees and quarterbacks sporting
the same appliance? How many times do these professional atheletes,
just like our drivers, have to drop the "F" or "S" bomb before the
governing body steps in and starts docking them money, or sitting
them for a game? I can already hear it, "NASCAR is a family oriented
sport, the drivers should know better!" Let me tell you something
people, our children look up to just as many football, baseball, and
basketball celebrities as they do drivers in NASCAR. The point
being? We CANNOT censor freedom of speech! We CANNOT control
competition which thrives on emotion and the human element. This
kind of mentality of trying to raise our children and the now ever-so-
easily offended public in a "shucky darns"-type of world are only
fooling themselves. Yes, Tony said it, yes it's bad, but can you
actually phathom the thought of moving on? Well with terrorism and
service people overseas fighting insurgency, why would ANYONE EVER
believe that there might be bigger fish to fry? It's beyond me. Oh,
and man-o-man, have you ever listened to a scanner at a NASCAR race?
ANYONE who speaks ill of Tony Stewart's Sunday outburst then goes to
a race and plants scanner phones on their heads best throw them in
the refuse before you spontaneously combust. My good friend Bill
Crittenden conceived the ideas in which this article is written, but
not in so many words.

Face it folks, what our children aren't hearing on television,
or radio, are hearing it in the halls at school, the ball diamonds
during the summer, the grid iron they play in the fall, and the
hardwood they dribble on throughout the winter. Competitivness x
emotion=sports. Get over it!