In what is considered an extremely rare photo, Dale Jr. strikes a pose without his silly sunglasses! Hard to believe that another year has gone by, and another race at Chicagoland Motor Speedway is once again set to play host to another exciting weekend of NASCAR racing! Yippee! If you live anywhere south of I-80 in Chicago, today's your last chance to stock up on cigarettes, Old Style, beef jerky, skoal, and pork rinds. The folks that live in and around Joliet look ahead to this weekend the Monday after the day of the actual race. More planning goes into this event than the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and for what reason? The whole idea seems silly to me. These guys hop into town a week ahead of time and pump all kinds of money into Joliet's economy. If you're in Joliet and can count on your fingers and toes, you're in good shape. When you're not counting cars going around in circles one weekend out of the year, you're counting your nickels and dimes that you picked up off the carpet at the casino. When you're not doing that, you're counting tornados that whirl by a dozen times a year. If the track was in Chicago itself, it would be considered a "white elephant" that nobody wants, just like the track that was in Cicero that went belly up. So this is a multi-million dollar facility that is used only one weekend out of the year? That could have been property better used for the Abraham Lincoln International Airport. So, as all the fools head out in the sun to watch these guys drive with no particular destination in mind, circle after circle, think of all the money that's being spent! I wait for the day when NASCAR reaches it's peak and leaves a lot of seats empty like they've done with the NBA and Baseball. Right now, people are spending hundreds of bucks on this coming weekend. People used to do that for "The Grateful Dead," At least in that case you could enjoy the second hand smoke. If it was a race like "The Cannonball Run," from New York to California, I'd watch...this one? No fuzzy dice.
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Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Going around in circles again!
In what is considered an extremely rare photo, Dale Jr. strikes a pose without his silly sunglasses! Hard to believe that another year has gone by, and another race at Chicagoland Motor Speedway is once again set to play host to another exciting weekend of NASCAR racing! Yippee! If you live anywhere south of I-80 in Chicago, today's your last chance to stock up on cigarettes, Old Style, beef jerky, skoal, and pork rinds. The folks that live in and around Joliet look ahead to this weekend the Monday after the day of the actual race. More planning goes into this event than the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and for what reason? The whole idea seems silly to me. These guys hop into town a week ahead of time and pump all kinds of money into Joliet's economy. If you're in Joliet and can count on your fingers and toes, you're in good shape. When you're not counting cars going around in circles one weekend out of the year, you're counting your nickels and dimes that you picked up off the carpet at the casino. When you're not doing that, you're counting tornados that whirl by a dozen times a year. If the track was in Chicago itself, it would be considered a "white elephant" that nobody wants, just like the track that was in Cicero that went belly up. So this is a multi-million dollar facility that is used only one weekend out of the year? That could have been property better used for the Abraham Lincoln International Airport. So, as all the fools head out in the sun to watch these guys drive with no particular destination in mind, circle after circle, think of all the money that's being spent! I wait for the day when NASCAR reaches it's peak and leaves a lot of seats empty like they've done with the NBA and Baseball. Right now, people are spending hundreds of bucks on this coming weekend. People used to do that for "The Grateful Dead," At least in that case you could enjoy the second hand smoke. If it was a race like "The Cannonball Run," from New York to California, I'd watch...this one? No fuzzy dice.
Dale Jr. #8
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