HELLO TEXAS

BEST WEEK EVER: JOE GIBBS


This weekend NASCAR raced in Texas. Tony Stewart won the Nextel Cup race making it his second win in a row. I would also like to mention it was Terry Labonte's final race after 29 years of racing, and Texas Motor Speedway went all out in order to salute him in his final race. The track was sold out. 250,000 people showed up and thousands of people like I were watching it on TV.

Speaking of TV I would like to express how excited I am that NBC will no longer be covering NASCAR. NBC has the worst sports coverage by far in my opinion. They have way to many commercials and I know that is odd considering I am in Advertising. But, they go to commercial at the most inappropriate times and then when they come back from break they don't even update you on what happened. Luckly NBC has only covered these lastsixteen races because I have never yelled at the TV so much, and NASCAR has a very long season. I even decided well let me watch football on NBC maybe they just don't know how to cover racing like FOX,ESPN and ABC. I was trying to be optimistic but, then again I say " NBC has the worst sports coverage."

Ok, Back to my point about TEXAS. I mention them because they are owned by ISC and have a similar track to the one being proposed in Washington State. This race was fun to watch as the drivers were going near 190 mph. There has been a different winner at almost every race there since the track opened ten years ago. Washington native Kasey Kahne dominated in the spring race and was running competitive all day against Stewart until his engine blew with 7 laps to go.

TEXAS hasn't been a track I normally get pumped up for but, I have to say they put on quite a show and everyone there seemed to be having a blast. On a final note I have to say thanks to Texas for a great race. Oh, I got kinda a fun fact for sports fans. Tony Stewart who won the race is the veteran driver for Joe Gibbs Racing. Joe Gibbs is the coach for the Washington Redskins. On sunday the Redskins beat the Cowboys and Joe Gibbs racing also took home the NASCAR trophy. So who's had the "BEST WEEK EVER" JOE GIBBS.