PICTURE PERFECTLY CAPTURES NASCAR FEVER

by Tbone, The Sports Hernia

Over at The Sports Hernia we rarely if ever touch on cars that race unless Jeff Gordon wins a pole and then promptly shoves it up his ass. With that said, it's also unusual that we come across a picture that so perfectly sums up our feelings on a sport, in this case NASCAR.

What we already knew about this picture without any extensive research is that the gentleman on the right, the one caught in that slow-in-the-head but violent-with-the-hands haze, has watched far too many vehicles endlessly circle around a track.

Is this what NASCAR eventually does to humans over time? We've seen people play Pole Position for days on end and still not look this mentally trapped.

Is he partaking in some sort of uninspired thumb wrestling match?

Is it possible he's just repeating "Up-up, down-down, left-right, left-right, B-A, start" over and over in his head, to the point that he looks like Kramer shortly after Tim Whatley gives him Novocaine?

Maybe he's pretending to read something interesting about NASCAR, or maybe he's just in a state of denial after someone told him he looked like Vlade Divac in that Edge shaving cream commercial.

Whatever it is, this picture tugged on that special place in our hearts that reminded us why we usually suplex each other instead of watching NASCAR.