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re: 24 years ago today, we lost the GOAT of GOATS, Dale Earnhardt......
Posted on 2/19/25 at 12:35 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Posted on 2/19/25 at 12:35 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
And on the flip side, the improvements made in safety due to Dale's death saved both Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman's lives. Probably Carl Edwards also(Dega)
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Posted on 2/19/25 at 12:36 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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He wrecked a lot of guys he didn't have to.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 12:38 pm to A12 Oxcart
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And what Fatass Helton and the Earnhardt family did to Bill Simpson was shameful and inexcusable.
Helton I'll give you but I'm leaving Junior/Kelley out of this. The whole fiasco with Simpson was all that bitch Teresa.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 12:38 pm to A12 Oxcart
Bill Simpson did more for racing safety than anyone, and they threw him under the bus.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:29 pm to FightinTigersDammit
And he never whined if he was on the receiving end. And he respected people who stood up to him. He was a samurai.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:32 pm to InkStainedWretch
Yes, he did. If someone wrecked him they were the worst driver ever.
I loved it when Cheever punted him into the grass during IROC.
I loved it when Cheever punted him into the grass during IROC.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:33 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Yeah but...... no.
Gretzky is the GOAT of GOATs.
Gretzky is the GOAT of GOATs.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:41 pm to POTUS2024
I remember for years a bunch of people saying he was a jackass. Then he died and everyone acts like he was some awesome dude.
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I was in the stands in the 80s at Talledega. #3 was surely hated. Hardly a black jersey in sight. As he became an old man he became beloved. No doubt the best driver on the track.
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I was in the stands in the 80s at Talledega. #3 was surely hated. Hardly a black jersey in sight. As he became an old man he became beloved. No doubt the best driver on the track.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:41 pm to A12 Oxcart
He was no worse or better than anyone else along those lines. I don't recall him being a whiner and covering races I was around the guy, actually had a one-on-one interview with him one time. (And also saw him hit, very hard, on a female sports writer, and given this particular person's reputation I don't doubt that they saw each other later that evening.)
And he respected people who stood up to him. He ran over Donnie Allison one time in practice and Donnie came up to him afterward and told Dale not to say a word, he simply said, "If you do that again, I'm going to whip your arse." And he meant it and could've done it too, because Donnie Allison was known as being an absolute legitimate badass who could mess somebody up really badly with his fists if you got on his wrong side. That ended it, and after that they were the closest of friends.
And in the 1986 Winston 500, Bobby Allison was leading him heading for the checkered flag and Dale took him way high coming out of four but instead of backing off Bobby held his line and Dale had to back off or wreck himself, and Bobby won the race. And afterward in the press box, Bobby said, "He knows better than to try that with me."
Again, the code of the samurai. We need more of that today in all sports.
And he respected people who stood up to him. He ran over Donnie Allison one time in practice and Donnie came up to him afterward and told Dale not to say a word, he simply said, "If you do that again, I'm going to whip your arse." And he meant it and could've done it too, because Donnie Allison was known as being an absolute legitimate badass who could mess somebody up really badly with his fists if you got on his wrong side. That ended it, and after that they were the closest of friends.
And in the 1986 Winston 500, Bobby Allison was leading him heading for the checkered flag and Dale took him way high coming out of four but instead of backing off Bobby held his line and Dale had to back off or wreck himself, and Bobby won the race. And afterward in the press box, Bobby said, "He knows better than to try that with me."
Again, the code of the samurai. We need more of that today in all sports.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:47 pm to InkStainedWretch
He and Geoff Bodine had some battles.
ETA. The King had a similar run-in with a young Dale, who he said came flying way too fast on the inside, way early in the race, and, in Petty's words "wound up on my hood".
Richard said after, he walked up to Dale, jabbed him in the chest and said "Don't you never do that again".
ETA. The King had a similar run-in with a young Dale, who he said came flying way too fast on the inside, way early in the race, and, in Petty's words "wound up on my hood".
Richard said after, he walked up to Dale, jabbed him in the chest and said "Don't you never do that again".
This post was edited on 2/19/25 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 2/19/25 at 1:52 pm to FightinTigersDammit
He and Bodine were like oil and water LOL.
Having interviewed both of them, I can tell you who I'd rather sit around and shoot the bull with about racing and life in general. And it wouldn't be Bodine, at least the way he was during his racing career. I've heard that Bodine is a totally different and better person these days. When he was racing, he was kind of a twerp.
Having interviewed both of them, I can tell you who I'd rather sit around and shoot the bull with about racing and life in general. And it wouldn't be Bodine, at least the way he was during his racing career. I've heard that Bodine is a totally different and better person these days. When he was racing, he was kind of a twerp.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:03 pm to A12 Oxcart
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Yes, he did. If someone wrecked him they were the worst driver ever.
I loved it when Cheever punted him into the grass during IROC.
Melt.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:07 pm to moontigr
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Gretzky is the GOAT of GOATs.
I can't argue The Great One.
1A and 1B.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:10 pm to InkStainedWretch
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And also saw him hit, very hard, on a female sports writer, and given this particular person's reputation I don't doubt that they saw each other later that evening.)
Lee Spencer?
Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:17 pm to InkStainedWretch
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I've heard that Bodine is a totally different and better person these days. When he was racing, he was kind of a twerp.
Wonder if him nearly dying in that crash at Daytona in the truck race changed his outlook?
It makes sense.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:19 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Yeah Richard's finger jabs were supposedly about as subtle as Ric Flair's chops to the chest. DW has spoken about being on the receiving end of them, and an admonition from the King, "Don't jack with me, or I'll give it back to you three times worse."
You didn't want to mess with the King, he also could handle himself. He and Ned Jarrett of all people got into a fight after a race back in the 1960s.
You didn't want to mess with the King, he also could handle himself. He and Ned Jarrett of all people got into a fight after a race back in the 1960s.
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