Thread: R.I.P Dale Earnhardt, 10 year anniv

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Originally Posted by techinspector1

You may as well get your money's worth from me, so I'll insult a few more dead men. Adolph Hitler was a S.O.B. too. And don't forget Mussolini, Hirohito and Stalin. One of the biggest S.O.B.'s in my lifetime was Martin Luther King and that assemblage of rabble rousing S.O.B.'s that gathered around him.

You are in rare form.

R.I.P Dale...........

I've also noticed that many of the people who idolize Dale didn't know much more about NASCAR then how to spell it until he died. Can't argue with the guys record, but the way he got a lot of those wins can be questioned and he was in the era when there was only a dozen or so cars actually capable of winning a race... Sorry he died, but then I feel that way about anyone who dies racing. The publicity is never good for the sport and is usually misused and abused....

As to the current group of drivers, they're the best of the best!! Only 43 guys get to start the race on Sunday, and there's thousands of drivers who would kill for their shot at any of those starting positions!!!! If it's just stupid and boring, why are there so many drivers from so many racing venues trying to break into NASCAR???? Guess people can call Jimmy Johnson anything they want, but they also have to keep in mind that he is a champion 5 years in a row---never been done before in NASCAR. Hasn't been done by many in any form of motorsports....

The Earnhardt name has been marketed to death IMO. As with most anyone who dies, the majority of folks only want to remember the good things they did when among the living. Heck, dead is dead. IMO the respectful thing to do is keep their memory (the good and bad) in your mind and don't use their passing to promote yourself or your causes.....

I've got a 22''x28'' poster/2002-2003 calendar on the wall in my office of Dale Earnhardt. My daughter gave it to me for Christmas that year. I didn't have the heart to tell her NHRA not NASCAR so it still hangs on the wall.

RIP Dale. You either loved him, or loved to hate him. Either way a great driver.

Many racers hated him. His idea of winning was putting someone into the wall.
I felt bad he died, felt bad for his family- but I had 0 respect for him.
I remember watching the race & watching Michael win. Even in dying, Dale stole the spotlight from Michael. A last FU right to the end.

There's blind adulation, then there's blind hatred, neither one makes sense, but are aspects of human nature.

Since we seem to have more negative than positive I feel the need to toss out a hmmmmm, for balance.

The other day I posted up a clip of his last win, 2000 Talladega. From 17th to finish in less than 6 laps on a restrictor plate. Didn't crash anybody out, and got lots of waves of congratulation from those who knew him best and were bested. Then I remember 1998 when he finally won the Daytona 500. Every single crew member walked out to the edge of pit road to give thier acknowledgement. Maybe none of them knew him very well, or maybe NASCAR orchestrated that too. (I don't think even Petty ever got that kind of ovation......but the King is still respected and revered so that particular form of acknowledgement is not a slight to him.) Seems like the people who fought in the arena had a different view of him than the fans......neither good nor bad, just the way it is. Nobody's mind will be changed by this, but these are realities that don't bear out the anymosity some may have.

That being said, Speed is overplaying the memorial stuff.

I didnt like him either. He was a complete pain and put many guys into the wall on purpose---havent watched Nascar since he died-I do miss the attitude!

Well I might as well open my mouth here I was watching the day he killed himself. I told my wife MANY other drivers hit wall that hard and walked away.. I thought is he was cooky enough to have taken his belt off last lap and all, then he got caught and no way out. Just My thoughts He drove to win and didn't care who he put into the wall to get there.Sorry hes gone but don't miss him. What more??? I think his kid wouldn't be driving right now if the old mans name wasn't hanging out there. My $.02

I have been a Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan since he first showed up. Did he race dirty, yep, there is no dought (sp) about that. But the dirty driver that you seen on the track was not the same person off the track.

Did I know him personally, no. So how can I say that? You don't get friends like Ken Schrader, Mark Martin, ect, if you were a total jerk off of the track.

JMO.

Bug, if you don't break bread with Ken Shrader or Mark Martin, then you have no idea what kind of men they are either. I'm not meaning to cast aspersions on these fellows because I don't know them or break bread with them, so I don't know anything about them. I'm just trying to get you to understand that a man isn't necessarily a good guy just because he acts like a good guy on camera. Television evangelists act like good guys on camera, but most of them are found out to be thieves and charlatans and cheats of the worst kind.

Maybe you haven't been on this rock as long as I have and had the experiences I have had, but what life has come down to for me is....
1. ACCEPT NOTHING AT FACE VALUE.
2. QUESTION EVERYTHING.

Now, someone may come along with a post following this one and say that it's sad to have to live that way, but that's just the way it is. I've been whacked up side the head one too many times for trusting people to do what they say they will do.

Tech, you are absolutely right. That is why I said on my first post that you are entitled to your opinion.

But, you still have not answered why you would say bad things about his mother. I have the utmost respect for your knowledge and the help that you give everyone here on CHR, but you lost some with those three little letters.

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Just to add. I am sure that loosing a little respect from me, being a relatively new-bee here will not make you loose any sleep. But I was brought up with better values than to call people names like that.

Also, have you broken bread with Dale? How can you think so little of someone that you do not know? In your own words "then you have no idea what kind of men they are either". You are basing your complete opinion about Dale solely on what you have seen on TV.

Last, FYI, I do not trust anyone that I do not know, and I only trust about 1% of the people that I do know.

Wow, not tryin to start a computer duel here tec, but i dont think he deserved to die for bein a bumper. I agree he got into people way too much, but what you said is very harsh.

If Dale had driven a FORD I would have worshiped him like all those Chevy fans did or do. I loved to hate him. Had a "Anybody but Earnhardt" sticker on the back of my van back then. Don't know if I miss him or I just miss the way NASCAR was before he died. Think it's the latter....

On a side note, if Davey hadn't been killed in that helicopter Gordon wouldn't have all his titles.

Hey dont go trashin my man Jeff like that stone cold! hahaha