Why do people that dislike NASCAR think the fans are stupid?

Question

I don't care much for the NBA but I'm not knocking their fans.

Chad in Tempe has an opinion.Maybe he thinks the rodeo is a good sport.You know,where they abuse small calfs with lassos and ride bulls.

Answer 1

I follow a ton of sports these days, and I like most of them, and obviously I can find people who think each sport is stupid.
Most people who don't like NASCAR don't think that the fans are stupid, it's just that the ones who do make everyone else look bad. They can't mind their own business and leave others alone.

Answer 2

Well here is how I have it figured. Nascar was a southern sport and was started by southerners. The first several years it was dominated by SHINE runners and most of them had no more than an 8th education because they had to quit school to keep the folks at home. It stayed a southern sport until the 70's when TV took a chance and showed the Daytona LIVE. At that time, Northern people started to take to the sport. BUT, high socity being what it is, still think that nascar is for dumb a** hillbillies who still can't read nor write. How wrong they are. With drivers like J Gordon, Little E, Newman, Stewart and the likes making Millions every year, nascar has moved to the fortune 500. But still, there will be people who think we fans AND the drivers are nothing but stupid hicks. Some would rather watch celiberty black jack or a ping pong match. Now those are real sports aren't they??? HA HA HA

Answer 3

Everyone has a right to like whatever sport they like. I'm not a fan of golf or tennis, but I don't knock the fans, either. What I think is that they just don't understand it. They don't see the intricacy of the sport, and since we do, we're automatically rednecks, hillbillies, hicks, etc. Well, guess what, NASCAR haters? This redneck probably has more sense than you.

About the rodeo comment, the only event I don't like because it can be deemed as cruel is the calf roping (and sometimes team roping). I've seen calves get pulled right off their feet when the horse slams on the breaks. Otherwise, steer wrestling, bareback bronc and saddled bronc riding, bull riding, and barrel racing are all pretty darn good. The cowboys have more of a chance getting gored in steer wrestling and gored/trampled in bull riding than the steers and bulls getting injured. If you think about it, a bull is a 3000 lb critter that can turn on a dime. They're surprisingly agile.

If you can't tell, I do like rodeos. And NASCAR, hockey, baseball, sometimes basketball, sometimes football, and horse racing. If anyone wants to say that I'm a stupid northern redneck animal abuser, it really doesn't affect me. It just shows that the person has nothing better to do than trying to diss me and my sports.

Answer 4

Because they think it only consist of "going around the track in circles". You can always tell a Nascar fan or not. They don't really know all the hard work that goes in to building the car from bottom up. They have never been behind the scenes of a race to notice how family orientated it is. They don't know how much time the drivers spend on doing charity work before and after a race.

Answer 5

The new format is devised by a bunch Ba+++ards who sold out NASCAR years ago. I don't watch the races any more and I have not bought any nascar labeled goods in the the last 10 years. The powers to be, need to go back to rewarding the drivers for their past performance's.

Answer 6

i'm the alternative of all those stereotypes!! a million. i like the sport 2. i'm a school pupil and am no longer a redneck (plus i'm a bi-racial guy or woman who likes the sport...i'm a uncommon discover it form of feels whilst in comparison with maximum nascar followers 3. the full "turn left" concern is basically how the sport works (different than highway classes) 4. My friends do no longer like it. yet who cares??! a number of my friends have no experience approximately what's cool, besides!! 5. i do no longer care if people will possibly no longer think of it incredibly is cool...i think of for myself! 6. I even have discovered plenty proper to the sport via watching driving force interviews, watching races, and interpreting books 7. I stay interior the Northeast the nice and comfortable button is, you're the two easy minded or open minded. easy minded people have self belief stereotypes. Open minded people could make up their very own minds approximately issues!

Answer 7

Sadly NASCAR has been stereotyped based on it's origins and not where it truely is today. NASCAR was born out of a bunch of Shine-runners deciding to organize into a racing league to win prizes.

For much of NASCAR's history it has been primarily a Southern Sport catering to autoparts, alcohol, and tobacco Sponsors. Bill France Jr. worked hard to take NASCAR Nationwide and make it more attractive to every race fan and he succeeded. Today NASCAR has an extremely diverse Fan base with a wide range of products sponsoring it's teams.

Also, some NASCAR Fans wave the Rebel Flag. I know to Southerners this is a symbol of Southern Pride; but to people outside of the South the Rebel Flag is seen as a symbol of racism, biggotry, and ignorance. When people see a race and see that flag they marry it to NASCAR; thus they think NASCAR Fans are ignorant; which is far from the truth.

Answer 8

A lot of people knock what they dont understand. Of course, back when Darryl waltrip started the phrase Boogety Boogety Boogety... fans were seen on national television holding up a huge sign that stated... Bogety, Bogety Bogety.. It was a huge joke on the air, and to thousands who watched at home. It didnt make Nascar fans seem to brilliant!

Answer 9

Sadly after the antics of the drunken louts at Talladega throwing stuff at Jeff Gordon's car and endangering innocent bystanders and the homophobic or anti "yankee" attitude they have toward him you can't help but view NASCAR fans as idiots and redneck morons.

I think Stan Savran said it best when he said that "What the fans don't realize in their own stupidity is that when you throw something you don't just run the risk of hitting the guy you hate but also innocent bystanders". I'm sorry but no I don't think Jeff Gordon winning a race somehow warrants potentially hitting a kid in the head with a beer bottle or something just because he or she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. These morons won't rest until they get someone killed.

Answer 10

It goes way back to the first televised Daytona 500. There happened to be a bad northeaster and for the first time many northerners saw NASCAR. At the end of the race Cale and the Allisons got into the fight. "There go those rednecks fightin' again" had to be the opinion of alot of people. Look at how many jokes are made by comedians about NASCAR fans. I am always defending NASCAR at work. As the sport becomes more mainstream the stigma should decrease.