All you hear is that NASCAR is the hot fast growing sport, and sports like the NBA could take some notes. For instance, the lesson in ugly human behavior put on by the Nuggets and Knicks this year.
This was the "#3 greatest moment in NASCAR history":
3. "And There's A Fight!": Feb. 18, 1979
As the green flag fell on the rain-delayed 21st running of the Daytona 500, it did so in front of 16 million viewers, who had tuned in for the first live flag-to-flag coverage of the Great American Race.
They leaned forward as Donnie Allison took the white flag, with Cale Yarborough tucked in behind. They sat up in their La-Z-Boys as Donnie blocked Cale's slingshot move, hip-checking his rival into the infield grass. And they dropped their beers when Yarborough hung a hard right and slammed Allison into the Turn 3 wall.
Third-place A.J. Foyt, seeing the ruckus ahead, hesitated just long enough to allow Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip to slip by. As Petty rocketed across the line for his sixth Daytona 500 victory, CBS announcer Ken Squier looked back to Turn 3.
"And there's a fight!" Squier shouted, as cameras captured the action. "It's Allison and Yarborough!"
An Allison was throwing punches, but it wasn't Donnie. Big brother Bobby says he strolled over, "and that's when Cale commenced to beating on my fist with his face."
The following day, NASCAR issued a statement saying that it "would not tolerate such behavior." But hidden behind that memo was an office full of smiles, a reaction topped only in the CBS production truck.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is NASCAR.
Why is it an all time great moment in one sport, and an example of why another sport has lost its credibility with that same demographic?
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