NHRA boots ESPN!

[Dave Muller]

Originally Posted by Tar Heel

I wonder if a very small piece of the decision was the countless times ESPN let women's softball, soccer, ______________ (you fill in the blank) run long and push back their drag racing broadcast. That drives me nuts!

Scott

That's the part that always bugged me about ESPN. And it's not only other sports events--if the soccer game before went 45 minutes long they would still show some half hour "just talking about sports" show before finally getting around to drag racing over an hour late.

On the other hand, I don't like this trend to live coverage at all. I don't think drag racing lends itself to that at all with oil downs and the need to do such extensive between-rounds work. Have you noticed that they cram the first round into about 1/3 less time to make room for all the dead time between semis and the finals? I hate to think of having the whole season that way with NHRA running the show.