What does it say about a sport when the only thing anyone cares about it is its disasters? It's directly analogous to people only watching NFL highlights to see players being put out of games.
I'd say it indicates that the sport is b-o-o-oring.
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:
I'm a big fan of racing. It's been my childhood dream for since I can remember. I love racing, anything, big small slow fast, I will race anything and anyone.
Racing is not boring, but the majority of people who are not fans of racing only care to see the crashes. I brought the link here because I felt it was a wicked crash and thought others would be interested in seeing it.
My racing idol died in an accident on a track he dominated on, save the 500 and I am not a FAN of the accidents, but when theres one that is crazy bad and people walk away uninjured, I find it remarkable and somewhat entertaining. It sucks because the money wasted and potential injuries, but when everyone walks away injury free, I think it's pretty amazing.
Can I sit through a race from lap 1 to lap 300+, not all of them, no. I typically watch the first 50 and last 50 because that's when the most passing occurs and the passing is exciting for me.
As for your anal (im not going to dictionary.com again for you, prick! lol) word thing, lots of people ONLY watch highlights to see the big plays, sometimes ... big HITS. That point is moot. Each sport has its HIGH excitement points.
Baseball - home runs, amazing catches
Golf - hole in ones, long putts
Football - long runs, amazing catches
These things are easy to understand the importance to them. Now with racing would you understand the importance of a draft and how it works? how when you're inches behind a vehicle how you reduce your RPM and can use that to sling shot around another vehicle on the inside of a corner? Probably not, wait, its you, of course YOU do, the average 'sports fan' does not. it's not PLAIN to the eye to see the importance such as the things I mentioned prior to this paragraph.
Crashes are attention grabbers, cars going in a circle are not, cars passing another car, are not. When said crash happens and people walk away uninjured, that's an attention grabber.