Sports for Athiests
After arriving at mom's to watch NASCAR on her cable TV, we were greeted by the TNT/NBC announcers with rain pouring down around their shelter. Now I (Heather) could easily go off on a rant about how inept and downright stupid the TNT/NBC announcers are compared with the talent and entertainment value of the FX/FOX announcers, but that's not the point of this blog. The wet track meant that yet again, there would be another rain delay.
To kill some time, mom suggested we try a bar on 38th and Hiawatha called the Red Cardinal. She mentioned that they cook a mean medium rare burger and I was sold. David and I headed out to the bar. Supposedly it is a pretty popular place. However, when we walked in, we discovered that we had our pick of any seat in the bar except for one table and about three bar stools. We checked the TV sets to see if any had on NASCAR. Surely they must have at least one TV on TNT since they had a few NASCAR posters decorating the grey walls. No luck.
So we sat down near the bar. Within a few minutes, one of the regulars went up to the TV and started changing channels. Surely, he had to be looking for TNT. He asked the bartender which channel was TNT. Not patient enough to wait for the bartender to look it up, nor for the man to press the channel button over and over, I yelled out, "try 36." Just then, they announced that drivers were asked to get in their cars. The race would be starting soon.
A waitress came by to get our order. Suddenly, she became very distracted by the usual goings-on of a NASCAR race. They were all bowing their heads in prayer. She asked, "Prayer?!? Don't they have any sporting events for athiests?" David and I were pleasantly amused by her question. I would have to say that the prayer and the fact that 99.9% of the audience are promilitary Bush backers leads me to have no desire to ever go see one of these races live.
Nevertheless, fans we are. So until someone buys the baseball season off of FOX (thus allotting for more NASCAR time), we will continue to seek out the second half of the racing season wherever we can find it, regardless of the spiritual or political preferences that surround us.
To kill some time, mom suggested we try a bar on 38th and Hiawatha called the Red Cardinal. She mentioned that they cook a mean medium rare burger and I was sold. David and I headed out to the bar. Supposedly it is a pretty popular place. However, when we walked in, we discovered that we had our pick of any seat in the bar except for one table and about three bar stools. We checked the TV sets to see if any had on NASCAR. Surely they must have at least one TV on TNT since they had a few NASCAR posters decorating the grey walls. No luck.
So we sat down near the bar. Within a few minutes, one of the regulars went up to the TV and started changing channels. Surely, he had to be looking for TNT. He asked the bartender which channel was TNT. Not patient enough to wait for the bartender to look it up, nor for the man to press the channel button over and over, I yelled out, "try 36." Just then, they announced that drivers were asked to get in their cars. The race would be starting soon.
A waitress came by to get our order. Suddenly, she became very distracted by the usual goings-on of a NASCAR race. They were all bowing their heads in prayer. She asked, "Prayer?!? Don't they have any sporting events for athiests?" David and I were pleasantly amused by her question. I would have to say that the prayer and the fact that 99.9% of the audience are promilitary Bush backers leads me to have no desire to ever go see one of these races live.
Nevertheless, fans we are. So until someone buys the baseball season off of FOX (thus allotting for more NASCAR time), we will continue to seek out the second half of the racing season wherever we can find it, regardless of the spiritual or political preferences that surround us.
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