Raceneck reality

Alright the race is over and my new driver(#8) finished in the top ten at Darlington this past weekend. I just got my degree and all of my family members from my dad's side were there to greet me at the race when I got there friday. I really have a great family that is one of a kind. They made me a banner with everybody's signature on it saying that they had nothing but love for me in so many words. That really ment a lot to me, and I had a blast at the race.It was my favorite race sense I have been going to the race about 5 years ago. This is a annual event that I really love to go too.We played poker and my dad won with amy's(my sister) money. It was cool and only 5 bucks to play, besides I won the race pool when I picked Greg Biffle out of the hat. I really was interested in the race this time, thats strange I guess. Before when I went to the race, my thing that I would do is just turn on the radio in the head set to listen to music and go to sleep until the race is over, but this race the head set came off.My head set that I get every year is a pain to listen too with the static, so I jam instead. I was dialed in like marivick on a bogey in top gun the whole race and was shocked when my best friend Jason Rhodes liked the race. I thought he would like the camping, not the race itself. That was his first race for him and he was hooked like a sheephead hooked around a fishing pole. Okay now here comes some shocking news, I know that I really like nascar and it will move up on my sports chart in the top 5. #1NFL #2NCCA basketball #3 MLB#4 NBA#5NASCAR#6 GOLF#7NCCA college football#8 maybe hockey(just the canes)#9 soccer(lol, noway it sucks). I have heard some members of the ESPN krunch time show say that they think nascar is not a sport. I used to believe that because you dont have to be a huge specimen of a man to drive in that sport or be able to run like the wind blows either. Sports are more than being gifted or being able to run fast or to be real strong. With any sporting event you need heart and concentration and a lot of practice to be real good at any sport. Have you ever been on the auto bond or even the New Jersey turn pike? You drive as fast as you can bumper to bumper 100 miles per hour for a good long drive . I cant imagine going 200 miles per hour bumper to bumper for 500 miles. That is a lot of concentration with a strong popeye like forearms that they have to drive with. I was stressed out after I got off of the turn pike,and could not imagine being on the race track for that long period of time. My hats off to the drivers of nascar. I will say this to people that say nascar is not a sport: If you don't belief me then look on the world wide leader in sports ESPN web page and see how much nascar is on that page , they have their own section just like,baseball,football,basketball. If Espn thinks its a sport and they are the world wide leader in sports, why should you think its not a sport. Sporting news has a section in their magazine aswell,and any other sports web site you go too will have nascar aswell on their site. Its still not my favorite, but it's a sport and I like it, and I want some more of it.lol

The Grumbling forcast for the Panthers!!

The panthers had a pretty good draft this weekend. They plugged every hole on thier roster. The first round they selected D. Williams (HB) to back up foster in the HB spot. He is compaired to Barry Sanders with his catlike turns and cuts. He has more cut than a sharp shinny blade. This guy can dance around defenders like bugs to a light. He is pretty fast , but only 5'9 with a Barry Sanders like build. He is said to look like Steve Smith with cool smile. They also drafted a CB in the second round with Richard Marshall. He is very fast and could start at free safty, but will likly back up C. Gamble. With the third pick Carolina had two picks from the Ricky Manning compensation pick and they selected a left tackle with R. Butler to back up Wharton on the left side of the line. He has great upside and a value pick at round 3. The other homly is (homly=to call a person or thing his homie or friend) J. Anderson (OLB) and that again was a value pick and it gave Carolina a lot of options at the OLB's spot with him again being a burner type receiver. J. Anderson is very quick for a OLB and ran a 40 in 4.45seconds. Thats pretty fast. I ran a 4.39 in high school belive it or not in my football days. Right now the only thing I run in the 40 is a 40oz of beer down into my belly. Anyways the later rounds they picked up a backup center, free safty,TE, DE in the last 4 rounds which are key backups to our team and core postion . The D looks better than last years D and bigger and biefer like kimbles and bits. They start Kemo and rucker,peppers along with Jenkins as there front four. There is none better than that in football. You think that all the Panthers have? Like Steve Austin says Hell no they got the hardiest hitting safty in the game with Mike Minter. They also have the top two CB's in the league and they both lead the NFC in INT's the last two years. So the secondary is solid man. What about linebacker's you say? They picked up K. Adams and he had 100+ tackles for the eagles last year. We have T. Davis who is very fast and verstile play maker. Did pretty okay last year, started rough, but finished strong. J. Anderson is pretty much a T. Davis Clone in the verstile department because of his quickness. Well you know Morgan he is a pro bowler middle linebacker.
Off to the O side now, they lacked O power when they faced the seahawks in the tittle game last year. The Hawks ran all over them and out gunned them for sure. The hawks lost Hutch this offseason and thier line is not as stout as the panthers line is. Wharton did good last year at the left tackle spot. We bruoght in Jeff Hartwig and was a better center than Jeff Mitchell is. We also have two probowlers in Whale and Gross. The line is loaded like a western omlette from denny's. We have a line and two dynamic backs in Foster, and the first round draft choice D. Williams. With Williams this gives us better insurance than metlife. Foster is a stud for sure but Williams makes me breath a liitle better. I said earlier that we were out gunned and we had a weak O last year. We have K. Johnson to take preasure off of Mighty mouse( S. Smith) and that should allow Jake to pop K. johnson over the middle. I dont see any holes at all for the panthers on thier roster. They have a top notch line with 2 good backs and two good receiver with a probowl QB, whats not to like about the O, they should be more productive this year.
(LT) #1 Wharton=84% #2 Butler=77% (LG)#1 Whale=95%#2 ? (C)#1Hartwig=93#2 ? (RG) #1Mathis=80%#2 ? (RT)#1 Gross=96% #2 ? (WR)#1 Smith=99% #2 Johnson=87%#3 Kolbert72%
(QB)#1 Delhomme=92% #2 Wienke=83%#3 Lefors=75%(TE)#1 Magnum=75% #2King75% (RB)#1 Foster=92% #2 Williams=86%
We should score more this year because have the best receiver in football last year in Steve Smith. Jake is good when the preassure is off of him. We have Fostor witch should take some preassurre off aswell he has great upside when on the field. He gets hurt alot so D. Williams should be our man. He lead college football in rushing yards all 4 years, and had 3rd most in college football behide R. Williams and B. Sandars. D. Williams had over 6,000 yards.The panthers usally takes a power back when picking a back to run straight ahead and pound yards and the clock away, but they took D. Williams instead. He will make you miss and can excell up the field at a high rate. He is compaired to Barry Sanders with his catlike moves I once said. Jake should throw more than 3500 passing yards with 30 TD's and 7INT's next year. Foster should rush for about 1000 ards or more.
The panthers should finish Top in the NfC South with a 12-5 record and then they should go on and win the big one: the super bowl . We should produce some pro bowlers this year too. Jake D., Steve S.,Gross,Whale,Peppers just to name a few.This will be a fun year and the game to watch will be the game against Dallas. The panthers lost last time to Dallas and we have K. Johnson to fued with, because he was cut by Dallas for T.Owens.It will be a fun year and tune in next time from the creative sports website ( Grumbles from the bird).