NASCAR season

[jennickels]

Well, the NASCAR season is almost upon us. I need to go find a NASCAR Illustrated or something so I can get all the driver switches straight. I am so confused as who is where and driving what car anymore. I can't keep track of it.

I'm a little peeved though that they are putting the dual qualifiers only on Speed Network because Comcast doesn't offer that unless you buy thier "sports" pack which is 10 channels of stuff we wouldn't watch (except Speed) for $5 extra bucks a month. Stupid Comcast. :( Oh well.

Brenna is going to be a little upset though. She is a big Bobby Labonte fan. I have no idea why, but she is. When she was a toddler (like that was so long ago, lol) she would always point to the green car and I would tell her that is Bobby Labonte. Pretty soon she learned to say his name, which still sounds like Bobby Bonny or Bobby Babonny. She only know which car is his by the color. We even got her one of those large collector cars to play with (the ones that are priced $15-$20).

Owen is an Elliot Sadler fan. He loves the color yellow and picked out the "candy candy" car for his own (he finally got one of the collector ones for Christmas after asking for almost a year--we could never find one). He also has a Kyle Petty and a Junior Busch car, too. Owen is so funny. When he was little he created his own driver--Kyle McJunior. He would race his two cars and tell me that Kyle McJunior won. Cracks me up everytime.

Meagan is a huge Jamie McMurray fan. She thinks he is cute with his "sticking up hair" and hates to see him in a hat, lol. She's only 5. We even found a magazine that had a poster of him and bought it, but I never hung the poster up.

We are such a NASCAR family. We all root for different drivers and teams but enjoy sitting down together on Sunday (if dh is lucky enough to have off for part of the race). It gives me and dh a lot to talk about during the week. I hate the off season. I get so bored, lol. During the season I so look forward to Sunday's. When we had Dish Network and the Speed channel I looked forward to qualifing, too.

I just can't wait. And I hope Brenna isn't too disappointed that Babby isn't in his green car anymore.

Comments

[mistressfishie.livejournal.com]

Bobby Labonte was my little brother's favorite driver when he was a kid too. :D It's so cute that your kids all have their own favorite driver.

Usually it's just my mother and I watching NASCAR together, at least it was until I got a job and had to work every Sunday. One of the reasons I like night races- I'm home to watch them. :)

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Usually it is just me. Sometimes the kids come in and sit for awhile but they get bored if they don't wreck. It never fails and the times they have night races dh ends up having to work then, too. He gets to watch some at work, but misses most of the race.

He usually calls me several times on Sundays to get a recap.

[mistressfishie.livejournal.com]

I always get my mom to text my phone throughout the race so I know what's happening. ;) It works well except at Talladega, where it's just a big jumble of numbers.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

OMG! wasn't Dega awful last year. I just sat there with my mouth open in awe, waiting for another wreck. The kids thought it was interesting. My son loves to "wreck" his cars when he pretends they are racing. Someone is always crashing.

I think I eventually turned the channel because I couldn't stand it anymore. I hope they do something about it this year.