3/17/04

Still More Special Delivery Mail

The letters about NHRA's television coverage on ESPN keep coming, so here is the second batch. Add your comments at response@dragracingonline.com

Darr, All I can say about your last column is: Hurray!! Clap, Clap, Clap... You get the picture. Great job!! I only get to attend 4-7 events per year and, Ho Hum, Yawn, the rest are on the tube. I go back a few years and have been a avid fan for over 38 of them. Hopefully things will change. Maybe we could start a grass roots movement to change the Boob Tube coverage... Let the readers know where to send suggestions, etc.

Thanks for your time...

Sincerely

Michael Kohn
Milwaukee, WI

TV+ Talking Heads+ Lost ball in high weeds

Damn straight.

Frank Oglesby

Darr, Great article. My fellow racers and I have been saying the same things for a long time. You hit all the nails right on their heads. It's gotten so that we don't care if we watch it or not. And the sportsman shows are just as bad, focusing on all alcohol. They can't even take a few seconds to scan the other sportsman finalists on the starting line to showcase closer the diversity of the cars/drivers and their sponsors, etc.

I'm sure this would have a greater effect on getting someone new, identifying with cars they can or may have, going to a race track to explore for themselves drag racing. As for the announcers, for whatever reason I see this stuff in big business all the time. The idiot at the helm is stupid and tries to baffle them with bull, but every time they need info, they go to the knowledgeable guys in the trenches whose knowledge make the idiot look good. Kind of a form of plagiarism.

Bill Stephens is so cold it's a wonder his lips don't freeze together. He/They have taken NHRA2Day to a lower level as you point out.

Lastly, I can't believe that with all the technology out there they can't capture the noise at a level that will give us the ferocity of the cars and speed without the distortion.

Just some of my quick 2 cents.

Thanks,

Sam Murray

Darr, thanks for the article. I wondered if anyone else was bored with this format. I used to plan my Sunday around NHRA Today with Steve Evans and Bob Frey. It was fun and exciting. Now it is the same old boring no inside info no clowning around I'd rather be at church kind of show. And what about some of these tv air times? The only one awake at my house is the cat.

Thanks for your honesty and no nonsense column.

Mark C.