NASCAR

There was a time in my life when I was a diehard NASCAR fan.  I recorded races if I could not watch them live. I adjusted my schedule around NASCAR races, and I watched NASCAR racing shows when I could find them.

That has changed.  In part, it changed because NASCAR changed.  They took races away from some of the romantic short tracks like Hickory, and moved races to cookie-cutter tracks in Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas.  They raced on Mother's Day weekend which never happened before. They took the Southern 500 away from Darlington on Labor Day.  They developed a "Chase" format in an attempt to make the championship more exciting. But they had to create their own hype to make the championship exciting.  They did all kinds of things to make sure the winners were the eventual champion, when all they needed to do was give major points to each race winner.  They could not figure that out!  Duh!  So simple.  NASCAR became such a business they forgot their roots.

They are making some changes to get back to the sport they once were.  They will never return to the NASCAR of old, but one change they made was to return the Southern 500 to Darlington, but on Labor Day http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/09/04/darlington-return-lady-in-black-back-on-labor-day/.

Maybe I can become a NASCAR fan again.