Dale Jr. be goin to Hendricks

[DainBramaged]

Bye bye DEI, you didn't deserve him.


(Too bad Coach has a thing about beer sponsors, he could have run with Smoke!)

[seemunkee]

1. I have no idea what any of that means

[Richardo]

2. I understand most of the words individually, but not put together in that order

[DainBramaged]

15. Smoke ia Tony Stewart, DEI is Dale Earnhardt Enterprises

who Jr. (Dale Earnhardt's son) works for and who will leave at the end of the year because his step mom (who owns DEI) couldn't come to terms with.

[Fran Kubelik]

10. Same here.

I think I understand part of it. I am almost motivated enough to google this Coach person. But not quite.

[taterguy]

11. Coach is Joe Gibbs

Owner of a NASCAR team and coach of the Washington Redskins

[Fran Kubelik]

12. Hey - thanks!!

[Orrex]

3. Purple haze all in my brain!

That Dale Jr., he so crazy!

[Taverner]

4. Dale Earnhardt Jr is switching sponsors

I think

[Maddy McCall]

7. You don't think that Bud will follow him to Hendricks?

Maybe he does need a clean start. Maybe he'll lose all of those rude asshole fans he's had.

[Taverner]

9. I'm not in the loop on NASCAR

No pun intended

I was just trying to translate a vague OP

[SeattleGirl]

29. I hope so, Maddy. Dale Jr. seems like a pretty nice guy, but his

fans are disgusting.

[DainBramaged]

16. nope

Bud just need to re-negotiate with Hendrick

[nosillies]

5. "You didn't deserve him."

I second that.

Earnhardt, Gordon, Johnson...what a team.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Can you believe it?

Earnhardt fans despise Jeff Gordon--remember them pelting him with beer cans when he broke Big E's win record a couple of months ago? I wonder how they're going to accept him being on JG's team.

I have a couple of friends who go to Talledega every year in their RV festooned with 8 and 3 flags. They HATE Jeff Gordon. They think he's a wacky Californian. I haven't called them yet to see what they think of this (really, to rub it in. )

Oh, the beauty of this NASCAR moment.

[JoDog]

17. Even My Earhardt loving, Gordon hating family

Thought that barrage was uncalled for. Their opinion is that records are meant to be broken (something Big E allegedly understood, too). And they grudgingly admitted that in all the interviews before and after the record-breaking race, Gordon was a class act about it--mentioning several times that Earnhardt was his hero as a kid and inspiration as a young driver. He even displayed a #3 flag on his car.

From Joedog, the only member of her family who prefers horse racing.

[BlackVelvet04]

21. Exactly.....

the Earnhardt fans I know thought it was uncalled for as well.

[Zomby Woof]

25. This Californian hates Gordon

It has nothing to do with where he is from. It is because he is an unctious smarmy piece of shit. Got to laugh at how he was taken for a ride by that gold-digging ex of his.

Junior's okay, not half the asshole his dad was. I wish him well.

Me... I prefer Jimmy Johnson (also a Californian, from El Cajon, right outside my hometown) and Clint Bowyer (only because he has the best sponsor in the league, Old No.7 - lol!).

[jobycom]

26. Kind of like Terrell Owens signing with the Cowboys.

Damn, what a team, though.

[DAMANgoldberg]

27. A show...

#3, Senior and Jeff were business partners off the track. Also, the late Ricky Hendrick (plane crash 2005 near Martinsville VA) wanted Jr badly. With Hendrick Motorsporta, you have the Gordon/Johnson future legacy, the Earnhardt name in Fender Racing, and the Mears name from Open Wheel Racing. And all of them can stay on top of the wheel!

BTW, I'm a #20 Home Depot Chevrolet Tony Stewart fan!

[DainBramaged]

31. Smoke, my fav too.

[Joe Fields]

8. That is the ultimate nascar irony. You gotta love it!

All Earnhart fans must be having conniptions right now. I'm laughing my head off over it.

[nosillies]

13. I opened my front door and heard the collective groans

But I do live in Daytona

[BlackVelvet04]

14. Most of the Earnhardt fans I know....

including me, are happy for Dale, Jr. He needs to be somewhere that provides him with what he needs to win. Hendrick can provide that. Hendrick is an old friend of the family and in fact wrote a contract on a napkin which Dale signed when he was 15 years old. Dale, Jrs. grandfather worked for Hendrik and Dale, Sr. drove a Busch car for Hendrick.

So, NO, all Earnhardt fans aren't having a conniption right now.

[Joe Fields]

18. Really? I have yet to meet an Earnhart fan who didn't despise Gordon.

[DainBramaged]

19. HEAR HEAR

He's a girly man Gordon is.

[BlackVelvet04]

20. I didn't say a word about whether or not the fans despise Jeff

Gordon, did I? I said the fans I know are happy Dale is happy with this move. The rivalry with Jeff Gordon won't go away for the fans, so what? I'm a Dale, Jr. fan and I don't despise JG. I'm not his biggest fan but I don't despise him.

Maybe it's the company you keep??? Or maybe people just like to gloat over what they perceive as someone else's misery?

[Joe Fields]

22. To Earnhart fans, it is traitorous. Those that don't think so...

probably keep their mouths shut. As for misery? I don't spend one second of my time worrying about the travails of a rich NASCAR driver. I have more important things to do.

Just sayin', I know what I see and hear, and Earnhart fans and Jeff Gordon just don't mix.

[DainBramaged]

23. Why do people boo Jeffie and throw shit at his car

Do you think he is loved? Like Jr.? They throw toilet paper and beer cans at him.

[DainBramaged]

24. The straight skinny on the roundy round shot that rattled the NASCAR world

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/nascar/nextel/38025/

[SeattleGirl]

28. I heard this earlier today. His fans are probably going to throw fits

because Jeff Gordon is also a Hendricks driver. I was hoping this was where Junior would end up. I have nothing against him, but a lot of his fans are a-holes, throwing crap out on the track any time Jeff wins. Serves the fans right!

[DainBramaged]

30. Irony, Kurt Busch winds up on Coach Gibbs team with Smoke.

[riverdale]

32. It's the redneck apocalypse

Rednecks are gonna have to scrape off two bumper stickers now -Calvin pissing on the #24 and the obligatory big red 8. Some wives or dogs are gonna wind up getting beatdowns over this, mark my words

[DainBramaged]

33. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

That was good, but the Rednecks can't really afford NASCAR anymore. Demographics don't include moonshiner's anymore. Just folks with LOTS of disposable income!!!