Comments on: The controversial Busch boys http://racebud.com/2007/10/26/the-controversial-busch-boys/ A site for NASCAR race fans Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:45:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: RaceBud http://racebud.com/2007/10/26/the-controversial-busch-boys/#comment-23 RaceBud Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:01:34 +0000 http://racebud.com/2007/10/26/the-controversial-busch-boys/#comment-23 MoHo-40, Thanks for your comments. You make some very good points...would love to hear more from you in the future! --RaceBud MoHo-40,

Thanks for your comments. You make some very good points…would love to hear more from you in the future!
–RaceBud

]]> By: MoHo-40 http://racebud.com/2007/10/26/the-controversial-busch-boys/#comment-21 MoHo-40 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:57:15 +0000 http://racebud.com/2007/10/26/the-controversial-busch-boys/#comment-21 I'd like to add some comments to this article. My wife and I followed Jeff Gordon since he was a kid. I mean a young kid racing grownups, established champions and racing heroes, and eventually taking their championships away from them, in whatever division he raced. When we heard Gordon was coming to the Busch under Hendricks wing, we couldn't wait to see what he could do. Sure enough, he spent a year over-driving about every way a rookie could, and tearing up lots of equipment, yet there were no Boos from the crowd. Then, he started winning. "What? That kid can't beat my driver !" "He's so cute!" , the gals said. Uh-Oh! Now you're makin' me feel a little jealous! And he kept winning, and made it look easy ! "I ain't gonna stand for it ! He's kickin' my drivers butt, and he hasn't earned the right to kick my driver's butt ! Hell, he doesn't even know how to talk like a race car driver !" Here came the Boos. The rest is history. Jeff Gordon probably single handedly made owners start looking deeper in the field for the next generation of champions. Not just to the Busch drivers, long established with years of failures and wins, but deeper down the ranks. English became the official language of Nascar, even Larry McReynolds stopped saying 'iregardless'. Today, the youngsters in the Goody's and Hooters divisions are polished spokesmen in front of the cameras. Sponsors and manufacturers names roll off their lips like they've been racing and being interviewed for years. You know its not so. And the fans still Boo. The Busch brothers are just more of the same young school. When they started out, busting into Nascar, they were the darlings of the media, and fans. First came Kurt.Then Kurt started winning, and racing like Earnhardt, bumping slow cars out of the way to improve his position, AND NOT APOLOGIZING ! BOOOOO! Can't have that ! Only Dale gets to do that. He earned the right ! " Get that idiot off the track !" The signs said," Free Jimmy Spencer !", at the Bristol spring race right after Kurt and Jimmy had their incident the week before. Kurt, the Sharpie driver won the Sharpie 500. BOOOOOOO! Then came Kyle, who won even quicker than Kurt. And, even worse, he acted like he deserved to win, just because he was faster. More bumping and NO APOLOGIZING ! When was the last time you heard Dale Earnhardt apologize for bumping anyone out of the way to better his position, or win a race? "THAT"S RACIN'!" The Busch boys are good. Too good , too soon, by some people's standards. However, winning races doesn't come easy, and winning lots of races takes one main thing, talent. When Jeff Gordon asked Dale Earnhardt how he handled the Boos, Dale just smiled and told him " Don't worry about the Boos, worry about when there aren't any Boos. That means you aren't winning." So Kurt and Kyle, enjoy it while you got it. As long as the fans Boo, you got them worried. In a few short years, someone else will be bearing the Boos during the introductions, and you might be getting respectful applause, even worse, silence. I’d like to add some comments to this article.
My wife and I followed Jeff Gordon since he was a kid. I mean a young kid racing grownups, established champions and racing heroes, and eventually taking their championships away from them, in whatever division he raced.
When we heard Gordon was coming to the Busch under Hendricks wing, we couldn’t wait to see what he could do.
Sure enough, he spent a year over-driving about every way a rookie could, and tearing up lots of equipment, yet there were no Boos from the crowd.
Then, he started winning.
“What? That kid can’t beat my driver !”
“He’s so cute!” , the gals said. Uh-Oh! Now you’re makin’ me feel a little jealous!
And he kept winning, and made it look easy !
“I ain’t gonna stand for it ! He’s kickin’ my drivers butt, and he hasn’t earned the right to kick my driver’s butt ! Hell, he doesn’t even know how to talk like a race car driver !”
Here came the Boos.
The rest is history.
Jeff Gordon probably single handedly made owners start looking deeper in the field for the next generation of champions. Not just to the Busch drivers, long established with years of failures and wins, but deeper down the ranks.
English became the official language of Nascar, even Larry McReynolds stopped saying ‘iregardless’. Today, the youngsters in the Goody’s and Hooters divisions are polished spokesmen in front of the cameras. Sponsors and manufacturers names roll off their lips like they’ve been racing and being interviewed for years. You know its not so.
And the fans still Boo.
The Busch brothers are just more of the same young school.
When they started out, busting into Nascar, they were the darlings of the media, and fans.
First came Kurt.Then Kurt started winning, and racing like Earnhardt, bumping slow cars out of the way to improve his position, AND NOT APOLOGIZING ! BOOOOO!
Can’t have that ! Only Dale gets to do that. He earned the right !
” Get that idiot off the track !” The signs said,” Free Jimmy Spencer !”, at the Bristol spring race right after Kurt and Jimmy had their incident the week before. Kurt, the Sharpie driver won the Sharpie 500. BOOOOOOO!
Then came Kyle, who won even quicker than Kurt. And, even worse, he acted like he deserved to win, just because he was faster. More bumping and NO APOLOGIZING !
When was the last time you heard Dale Earnhardt apologize for bumping anyone out of the way to better his position, or win a race? “THAT”S RACIN’!”
The Busch boys are good. Too good , too soon, by some people’s standards. However, winning races doesn’t come easy, and winning lots of races takes one main thing, talent.
When Jeff Gordon asked Dale Earnhardt how he handled the Boos, Dale just smiled and told him ” Don’t worry about the Boos, worry about when there aren’t any Boos. That means you aren’t winning.”
So Kurt and Kyle, enjoy it while you got it. As long as the fans Boo, you got them worried. In a few short years, someone else will be bearing the Boos during the introductions, and you might be getting respectful applause, even worse, silence.

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