Originally Posted by Harry 6674 (Post 385158)

A little comedy is always good. Calling soccer a contact sport is pretty funny to me. When I was growing up only girls played soccer and after watching about 1 minute of the Seattle Sounders things are still the same. Only girls. As far as Mr. Barton is concerned sometimes faces need to be gotten into. PC does not always work.

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey (Post 385161)

Thanks Guys:

I look at every problem in my business as an opportunity.
That attitude has always paid off too.
Things get solved when opportunity meets preparation.

As a President of my company it is my job to fix what broke, make good better, and sleep with good conscience.

In business and family when a problem arises many times I am the last person to know about it. Just the nature of things.

Have been reading lots of griping about NHRA this and that, yet nothing seems to get done.

We are NHRA Members, we are a UNION of Racers.
Know a lot of you hate that word but get over it.

Our objectives are simple.
Safety, fun, fair treatment and dignity at the tracks.

Side Note:
I remember when tracks were never prepped and seems that VHT though makes tracks consistent can also cause maintenance issues and inconsistent traction of if not correctly used.

Back to Topic:
NHRA is a business and its Leadership is a large complex organization trying to seek a balance with fans, players and gripy people.
Just like any other sports organization.

Believe me sometimes it is not fun.
I have Reffed Soccer Games from Hell...in fact recently.
Despite calling the best games of my life there is no pleasing those that want to win and have all the calls go their way.

Back to our Sport.
We have the right to petition our NHRA Leadership.
However there is no leader or team of advocates, that I know of.

Who advocates for us now, because IMHO it does not seem to be NHRA?

Think IHRA is trying hard to working well with racers.
Yet most racers are NHRA centric and not migrating to IHRA that seems more pro racer.

We the members of NHRA want them to be successful.
I know they are trying to do their best. They are not monsters.
All of us have a lot in common especially regarding our investments and theirs.

It would be to our advantage to organize, challenge NHRA and IHRA professionally and not be adversarial to help them manage their organization.

Now back to work...

D

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas (Post 385059)

'74 Summernationals -and we brought our own cool .And we all hooked .Thats Stan Welsh in my 'pool' ........It sure was a different time .

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey (Post 385096)

NO !!

Listen to your comments.

I am a Soccer Referee and exposed to opinions of Players, Coaches and Parents at times upset with my decisions on the field.
Have been involved in Soccer for almost 30 years, 40 years in contact sports, been an owner of a Soccer League, Coach and now Soccer Ref.

Not with standing the actions of NHRA.

Based on what was written in these posts.
The actions of Mr. Barton's outburst would be considered "Abusive Language" which is a Red Card.
Resulting of the player being kicked off the field and I would have to write a detailed report.

There is no sports institution that will put up with the anger displayed in public.
Which includes face to face confrontations that I have experienced.

Mr. Barton was right to be upset. Have no argument about that.
However, he survived the crash because the safety equipment designed to keep a driver safe worked.
The rules did what they were suppose to do. Improved over the years as our sport got more sophisticated.
By people thinking ahead. Not hearing anyone cheer about that.:rolleyes:

Mr. Barton had he not been so expressive and behave a bit more professionally.
He may have gotten his point across and more effectively without the crass behavior.

There is a difference in being mad and being angry.
Mad is the reaction on these posts of NHRA's negligence.
Anger is what Mr. Barton expressed.

Mr. Barton please return the money and pay the fine.

We are NHRA Members.
With our collective and coordinated power NHRA will listen but will not do so easily without proper and persistent persuasion.
Which is the real goal !!

The issue is NHRA lack of quality management and poor attitude of the Sportsman ranks.
It seems to be the prevailing long term issue that covers far deeper ills because profit motive has become radically more important than the racer and the sport.

This is the same ill and attitude in a far larger scale that has afflicted our country over the last 30 years.

NHRA has demonstrated how this ill has embedded our sport.

Sincerely,

Dan Fahey

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey (Post 385161)

Thanks Guys:

I look at every problem in my business as an opportunity.
That attitude has always paid off too.
Things get solved when opportunity meets preparation.

As a President of my company it is my job to fix what broke, make good better, and sleep with good conscience.

In business and family when a problem arises many times I am the last person to know about it. Just the nature of things.

Have been reading lots of griping about NHRA this and that, yet nothing seems to get done.

We are NHRA Members, we are a UNION of Racers.
Know a lot of you hate that word but get over it.

Our objectives are simple.
Safety, fun, fair treatment and dignity at the tracks.

Side Note:
I remember when tracks were never prepped and seems that VHT though makes tracks consistent can also cause maintenance issues and inconsistent traction of if not correctly used.

Back to Topic:
NHRA is a business and its Leadership is a large complex organization trying to seek a balance with fans, players and gripy people.
Just like any other sports organization.

Believe me sometimes it is not fun.
I have Reffed Soccer Games from Hell...in fact recently.
Despite calling the best games of my life there is no pleasing those that want to win and have all the calls go their way.

Back to our Sport.
We have the right to petition our NHRA Leadership.
However there is no leader or team of advocates, that I know of.

Who advocates for us now, because IMHO it does not seem to be NHRA?

Think IHRA is trying hard to working well with racers.
Yet most racers are NHRA centric and not migrating to IHRA that seems more pro racer.

We the members of NHRA want them to be successful.
I know they are trying to do their best. They are not monsters.
All of us have a lot in common especially regarding our investments and theirs.

It would be to our advantage to organize, challenge NHRA and IHRA professionally and not be adversarial to help them manage their organization.

Now back to work...

D

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez (Post 385243)

Al the bitching,moaning and pontificating isn't going to accomplish squat.There was a thread a while back about NHRA sending a memo out to all NHRA members about waiving all rights to vote on any aspects of the operations of the organization.The membership
supposedly gave up their right to do so.So now this is what it has finally come to.
And BTW Wally was in charge then and hadn't developed Alzhiemers yet.