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Sports Have Changed · Kenny Wallace Media

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All right, it is Wednesday morning and I had to get my butt
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off the couch because his coffee with Kenny woke me up.
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So Max Verstappen, the guy that won all the Formula One races
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this year in the Red Bull card, dominated.
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Hell of a guy. But my opinion is this, I I feel
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like he's starting to get a little full of himself.
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But I but I mean that in a in a in a good way.
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He he's starting to get confident talking, right?
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Because now he's the man, right, Kind of like our guys.
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You know in the day if you were Jeff Gordon or you were Rusty
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Wallace or you were Dale Senior and you want it all and you know
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NASCAR made you part of everything.
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You got confident. You're the man.
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I'm going to tell you everything what I think.
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So that's what's happening with Max Verstappen right now over
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there at Formula One. I'm putting my coffee down
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South. So anyway, comes out a little
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article today, this morning on this Wednesday morning, that Max
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says if Formula One continues to be too much, show too much glitz
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and glamour, I'll retire, he said.
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There's other things in life, you know.
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Now I want to comment on that. I got to repeat it because I
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know some of some of you are like me.
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You're like, what the? Oh, let me rewind that.
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Max Verstappen, who dominated this year, won all the races
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except for a couple of them, have not seen anything like that
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in a while. Of course we have because in
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Formula One it goes like that, like Lewis Hamilton, none of
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those guys went nine or ten, they all went 20.
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It's true. It's like that because it's yes,
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the drivers are everything, but it's about the car, right?
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It's it's like I talked to Dale Senior one day when he was alive
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and I and Senior kept coming from the back to the front and
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he won the Bud Shootout and I said something to Senior about
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it and he said, well, it's because I got a good horse to
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ride. Senior brings up a good point.
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You know what, when you married, you know Mark Martin, Dale
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Senior, Jeff Gordon, all those great drivers together.
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If you're Daytona Teledagon and you got a fast car, you ride it
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because at those tracks that's what it was about.
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It was about a fast vehicle. So Earnhardt's right.
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If you got a fast horse. OK, so respond right here.
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Who wins the horse race? Who wins the Kentucky Derby, the
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horse or the jockey? Earnhardt said The horse wins
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the race. US racers agree.
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So like I said, when you put, you know, in Formula One, if you
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put all those drivers together, I think the Red Bull car was
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that fast. And that's why I think in
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Formula One you see these guys rattle off 1520 wins a year.
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Happens all the time. Lewis Hamilton was doing it now,
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Max for staffing. So anyway, get to the point.
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Herman Verstappen says Formula One, if it continues to get too
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showy, he's going to quit and do other stuff.
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Well hold on now Max. Easy to say.
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Now that you've made fifty $100 million a year, whatever the
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hell it is and your domination station, you're you're, you're
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getting it done. So that's like, that's like, you
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know, you grow up as a kid, you don't have a pot to piss in, and
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then all of a sudden one day you become, you know, a millionaire.
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You know, you, you look at things differently.
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So here's my take. Max has got hundreds of millions
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of dollars, probably now because I know the kind of money Formula
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One drivers make. So in Formula One, you don't,
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you don't make that. I don't you don't make $20
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million, you they're up in like $100 million range because they
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run a different country every week.
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Remember they were in Vegas like 2 weeks ago and and they just
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got done running Dubai. So they run, they put those cars
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up in a shipping container, put them in an airplane.
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I mean it's the big boys budgets are $500 million a year or more.
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So I am bringing this subject up, and here's why.
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Because that's the way sports are right now.
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I'm going to call you fans out. All of you fans don't like
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normal football anymore. You don't like normal baseball.
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You don't like normal hockey. You don't like normal racing.
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The fans are the issue here. Not not Formula One.
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The fans like this phone I'm using right now.
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Now, listen, we're all guilty. I'm just bringing up the
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subject. Respond right here.
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Can fans watch the sport anymore?
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Or do you start tweaking and you got to get on your phone and
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then you got to go up and instead of getting a beer,
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you're going to hang out somewhere Because you want to
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talk to your your, your friends and you want to complain about
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the the Wi-Fi in this stadium or this arena.
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While while the race is going on, while the football game is
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going on, Look at your stadium, look at your arena right now.
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That's what they're doing. They know that.
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You go down to your seats for a little bit.
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You act like you're a fan, take the picture of you and your
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people there. Then you, you go up to the, you
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know, the walkway. And then you start, you know,
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drinking or doing whatever it is you all do, fans or people.
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Right now you think I'm a DD. Hell, you all are worse because
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that's the way all sports are now.
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Nobody watches the sport. Now listen, they watch the
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sport, but they can't do both at the same time.
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So the reason all sports have become entertainment venues is
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because of all of you. You know, they put the Wi-Fi in
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for you. You now, you complained that the
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Wi-Fi is not good. You know, lap 150 of the Daytona
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500 you get on your phone while they're fighting for the lead.
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What? Oh, he took the lead.
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Oh, hold on, let me post this. Right, right.
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Respond right here. Who's on their cell phones
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during all sports activities because y'all post all the
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videos. I see them all.
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I see all your videos while the sport is going on.
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So here's the bottom line with this story.
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All sports are going show now because of you.
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Because if they go, hey, come to the football game, you won't
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come. But if you say Taylor Swift's
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going to be there, sold out, standing room only all over
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national TV, right? Football is getting to where it
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cannot stand on its own two legs.
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But if you say Taylor Swift going to be at the Chiefs game,
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sold out, standing room only, crowd on feet, I win right
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there, right? Because I just reminded you so.
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I know football's the biggest sport there is.
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But so, Matt, here's my message to Max Verstappen.
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Max, it's happening everywhere, buddy.
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It's all about show anymore in the garage area at a NASCAR
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event. We still to this day believe
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it's about the car, which it is. But these promoters, these
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owners, you know, it's like us holding this downtown Chicago
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race or racing on a football field.
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At the start of our race season in 2024, we're going to be on a
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football field for the LA Coliseum, right?
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And if we don't convene, you continue putting on a show.
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People don't believe in the sport, the raw sport anymore.
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Raw sports are, they're the thing of the past.
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So I'm in the pits. I get it.
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And I think a lot of the athletes are are understanding
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it now. So, all right, well, that's my
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opinion. I think.
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I think Max Verstappen is going to understand that all sports
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are show now. Look at the World of Outlaws.
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It's the World of Outlaws, often imitated, never duplicate
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fireworks. You know it's all a show.
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It's real in the pits to us, but it's a show everywhere else, all
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right.