And now, TC
BTW, I'd take unwanted Crows AND NASCAR tickets. Quite a prize.
I won a couple months back and got BB King tickets, which I didn't really want, so I offered them up here and some lucky dude snatched them up.
Because my suggestion for last night's veggie set was, ahem, SO FREAKING AWESOME, I didn't want to run the risk of winning Counting Crows tickets that I didn't really want. (How's that saying go again? Oh yeah. "You can's spell CROWS without W-O-S.")
I certainly would have been excited to get NASCAR tickets, though, even though it's a road course, which might detract from the full Bubba effect of typical NASCAR (
Trivia question: Besides Infineon Raceway, what is the only other road course on the NASCAR circuit?)
I've always been vaguely interested in seeing a live NASCAR race. I watched the last part of the Dayton 500 last night, I turned on the TV after seeing the story online about the huge explosion that had just happened when a driver plowed into a maintenance truck laden with jet fuel (no one was seriously hurt.) Also, I was a little bored and don't have cable.
(In other words, I probably would
not have watched it had it been Sunday when the race was supposed to have been completed.)
It was a pretty fun time. The drivers had to wait while they patched the track after the fire, and the Fox coverage crew did interviews to fill in the downtime with the various driver and crew dudes (I didn't see Danica Patrick interviewed, but the camera showed her heading off to make a personal "ladies" pit stop.
The drivers were pretty interesting for the most part, and
gol-durnit they all seem so young. Also, because the race had seen so many unusual events -- multiple rain delays, the big crash and fire, the urgent re-paving job on the scarred track -- everyone was a little excited and it wasn't always the usual "yeah, we have to race hard, we have a good car, yadda" blather in the interviews. (Well, I suppose it was mostly the usual stuff.....) But one driver, Brad Keselowski, mentioned his twitter account and later they said he picked up 50k twitter followers in an hour.
here's his twitter acct >>
http://twitter.com/keselowskiand an image he tweeted:
So anyway, it was pretty fun...