Nascar drivers not allowed to do interviews w/ NRA logo...wtf.

[dee]

Figured that was reserved for going to class now days.

Only in Houston.

[Vertnut]

Quinceanera should be changed to "someone gets stabbed"

I thought that's what it meant?

<------------- no habla espanol

[mikec]

And that's just at [sceen name omitted's] house.

Heh, I know of three board members within five miles of the track and they all have guns...

[Big Dad]

And, we have this..

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/man-shoots-self-infield-nra-500-214951761--nascar.html

The death of a man in the infield of Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night during the Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 has been ruled a suicide from a gunshot to the head, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office.
The incident happened late in the race when Kirk Franklin, 42, of Saginaw, Texas, apparently got into an argument with other campers. Track spokesperson Mike Zizzo said Saturday night that the incident happened "in or around a pickup truck" in the infield.
Firearms were prohibited by Texas law from being brought in to the track by fans. The NRA's sponsorship of the race came under scrutiny when it was announced earlier this year after Michael Waltrip ran a Sandy Hook benefit car at the Daytona 500 encouraging fans to text to give to Newtown, Conn. It was the NRA's first Sprint Cup Series sponsorship; it sponsored the Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speeedway in September.
As is custom for all race sponsors, the NRA was offered the chance to buy the premium ad package from Fox Sports that would include commercial time, sponsor mentions and graphics with the race name. The NRA declined, and thus the race was presented without a sponsor on in-race graphics and the Fox broadcast mentioned the title sponsor once an hour. Earlier in the week, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy (D) wrote a letter to Fox to ask the network not to broadcast the race.
The NRA's sponsorship met and passed all NASCAR guidelines for sponsorship approval, but the sanctioning body said on Friday that it would take a closer look at other factors when going through its standard sponsorship approval process moving forward.
In 2008, a fan was hit by a stray bullet at Texas Motor Speedway after a gun was shot into the air and the bullet came into her RV through the roof and landed in her arm

[stevo]

... Yet not one person will die from a gunshot wound there this weekend...

...week long drinking party and not one person gets shot = Texas Nascar race

Not quite.

Man shoots self in infield at NRA 500

The death of a man in the infield of Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night during the Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 has been ruled a suicide from a gunshot to the head, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office.

The incident happened late in the race when Kirk Franklin, 42, of Saginaw, Texas, apparently got into an argument with other campers. Track spokesperson Mike Zizzo said Saturday night that the incident happened "in or around a pickup truck" in the infield.

Firearms were prohibited by Texas law from being brought in to the track by fans. The NRA's sponsorship of the race came under scrutiny when it was announced earlier this year after Michael Waltrip ran a Sandy Hook benefit car at the Daytona 500 encouraging fans to text to give to Newtown, Conn. It was the NRA's first Sprint Cup Series sponsorship; it sponsored the Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speeedway in September.

As is custom for all race sponsors, the NRA was offered the chance to buy the premium ad package from Fox Sports that would include commercial time, sponsor mentions and graphics with the race name. The NRA declined, and thus the race was presented without a sponsor on in-race graphics and the Fox broadcast mentioned the title sponsor once an hour. Earlier in the week, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy (D) wrote a letter to Fox to ask the network not to broadcast the race.

The NRA's sponsorship met and passed all NASCAR guidelines for sponsorship approval, but the sanctioning body said on Friday that it would take a closer look at other factors when going through its standard sponsorship approval process moving forward.

Stevo

[stevo]

Damn it....

Stevo

[HarrisonTX]

Was almost the third person to link that article. LOL damn it.

[95DRGT]

Well one less moron in this world

[Mach1]

Article is BS, and impossible, it was illegal to have a gun at the race.

[naynay]

obama death squad bagged another one!

[Lone Sailor]

Article is BS, and impossible, it was illegal to have a gun at the race.

Thanks for the laugh.

[Big A]

Drunk driving kills thousands of people each year, they shouldn't be advertising Budweiser, or showing the cars that they are driving either.

I'm so glad they got rid of that whole Winston thing, look at all the lives that have been saved by all of the people that quit smoking!

[4.6coupe]

Drunk driving kills thousands of people each year, they shouldn't be advertising Budweiser, or showing the cars that they are driving either.

I'm so glad they got rid of that whole Winston thing, look at all the lives that have been saved by all of the people that quit smoking!

So true.