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NASCAR Fans From The 1990's Are Heartbroken · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Been studying a lot of race fans lately.
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  The ones that say they don't like NASCAR.
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  I don't believe that. I don't think these fans don't
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  like NASCAR. This is about heartbreak.
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  Let me do my very best. This is something I just got
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  done reading an article with Kyle Busch.
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  Kyle Busch said The fans from the 90s are most likely gone and
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  will never come back. You have the diehard fans of
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  NASCAR, of the Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Terry
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  Labonte, Mark Martin, Harry Gant, you name it, guys from the
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  90s, mid 90s, late 90s, all of that and our world now today of
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  the 2024 is a lot different fan base of following along.
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  We, I don't feel like we were able to transition a lot of the
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  fans that were fans of those drivers, of the names that I
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  just mentioned into a William Byron fan or into a Kyle fan or
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  into whoever, You know, they kind of probably went away and
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  just stopped following as much, Which is hard to say because
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  honestly, like when you look at NASCAR, the fans love the
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  drivers, like the driver star power, that's what brings people
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  to the racetrack is the drivers. So I want to thank Kyle Busch
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  for giving me that content. After 10 minutes of thinking
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  about what Kyle Busch he's brilliant and he's true.
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  And I did my own math. So NASCAR said the height the
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  highest NASCAR ever was was 2006 and that was Dale Earnhardt
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  Junior. So one would think that when we
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  lost Dale Senior, that would have been it.
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  But no, that's not true. 2006 was the height of NASCAR.
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  So let's go through the psychology here and and a little
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  bit of math. I see people right now so happy.
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  They are they're they're like this.
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  I'm going to imitate them. Look, haha, there's nobody in
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  the grandstands. NASCAR's failing.
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  I I couldn't ever figure out this psychology.
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  Why would the people that love NASCAR pay so much attention to
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  the grandstands? Why don't they watch the race?
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  It's heartbreak. So what I've learned, and I'm a
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  button, all this up here for you, What I've learned is let's
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  take 1995, let's just say 951995 to 2005.
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  What is that 19 years ago? 2005 to 2015 is 10 years.
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  Yeah, 19 years ago. Let's say, let's take, let's
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  just take a round Number, let's take 20.
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  Let's go with 20 years. OK, Dale, senior's been gone for
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  over 20 years. So let's just say you were
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  fifty. You're over 70 years old now.
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  Every person that I talk to that is of age, they go, yeah, I
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  don't, I don't even watch NASCAR anymore.
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  You know, Earnhardt's gone, Rusty's gone.
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  Their drivers are gone, so I don't think the racing's bad.
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  I think the racing's better, but we're dealing with heartbreak
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  here. I believe people are heartbroken
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  and I believe Kyle Busch is right.
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  The fans from the 90s, when we lost Earnhardt and Rusty left
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  and Tony Stewart left and Dale Junior left, and you know, Chase
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  L, it's a big key because when Chase does not run good that
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  that's bad. Because for some reason people
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  still live through Chase Elliott.
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  They kind of see Bill, listen, I'm going to say it right here,
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  take this. Chase Elliott is the last of the
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  Mohicans. He's the last bloodline through
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  the great driver. In other words, you know, the
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  Wallace era is gone. That's done.
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  The Waltrip era is gone. That's done.
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  The Petty era is gone. That's done.
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  The last bloodline of of of those drivers.
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  Stop and think about it. Reply right here if I'm wrong is
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  Chase Elliott. Bill Elliott, Awesome.
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  Bill from Dawsonville. He's the last one left.
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  I just thought about that. As I'm telling this, I don't
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  think it's NASCAR whatsoever. Actually, I'm positive most of
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  you right now. When I stopped at that VFW hall
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  at Bristol, we we landed, I went to the VFW hall and all those
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  older people in there, they knew who I was.
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  They were excited. They met me at the door.
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  Yes, they did. Kenny, we watch you on Facebook.
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  We love that coffee with Kenny. I don't watch NASCAR anymore
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  because my guys are gone. See what I'm saying?
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  They're heartbroken. So I agree with Kyle Bush.
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  The fans from the 90s, they're gone.
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  They're probably never going to come back.
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  And here's the issue. The new kids, they don't give a
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  flying about anything. They are on their own island.
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  They're into their phones, they're into TikTok.
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  And this new group, they're just, you know, I mean you see
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  it all across the board in all type of sports.
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  So the crowd, this Bristol race was way bigger, way better.
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  Yes, it was, yes it was. But yet people were were still
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  enamored. Race was awesome, but it was
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  still the the disgruntled crowd. Look, look, look, see, I'm not
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  there. Look, they're not there.
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  So that it makes them feel better.
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  It's kind of like Misery loves company, right?
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  It's kind. It's kind of like when people
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  go, why is there nobody in the grandstands?
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  And I'm like, well, that's simple, 'cause you're not there,
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  get it? It's you.
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  So I believe that we had to get rid of seats because when we
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  lost that era, those fans were heartbroke and they just left
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  and they're never going to be back.
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  So this is what we got. Time heals all wounds.
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  We have moved on and now this is it.
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  We are in a new era. This era is much smaller than
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  the last era. That's it.
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  It's official. If you've made it 6 minutes, I'm
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  going to wrap it up. It's been over 20 years since we
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  lost the great Dale Senior. Those fans are heartbroke.
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  They're gone. Plus, Dale Junior quit racing.
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  Tony Stewart quit. There's no bloodline left.
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  I truly believe that if Chase Elliott was winning right now,
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  there might be a bigger fan base.
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  But I did something a trackside live that shocked me.
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  We had to kill about 30 seconds. I said, who's going to win the
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  race today? Chase Elliott.
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  And it shocked me, the fans went clap, clap, Boo.
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  And I went, whoa, what? What's going on out here?
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  So I feel bad that Chase Elliott, that you all have put
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  this much pressure on Chase Elliott.
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  He's a champion. You fans got to give chase a
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  break that that is, that is not his fault that that he's that
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  his car is not running that good right now.
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  You all are putting too much pressure on the last bloodline
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  in racing. Dale Dale's Dale Junior can only
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  do so much, everybody. So I'm just going to say this is
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  it. Everybody's heart broke and and
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  the new fan base is not as adamant.
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  They don't care about cars. Hell they don't even have a car.
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  They they what do they call that Uber.
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  They Uber everywhere. The love for the car is gone.
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  It's just a new era And I want to thank Kyle Bush actually Kyle
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  Bush is going to be on Kenny conversation.
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  Yes he is. He's going to be on here early
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  April along with Danica Patrick. We got some big ones in the
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  pipeline, but thank you Kyle for saying that.
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  You made me think it's a numbers game.
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  If you love the NASCAR in 1998, that means you're you're almost
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  80 years old and and you're just you're of age now and you're
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  tired and you're not going to go to these races.
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  So that's it. We just realized we just broke
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  it down and and actually Kyle Busch is pretty brilliant.
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  He's right. The fans from the 90s, y'all are
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  gone. Kind of sad.
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  Kind of sad. All right.
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  Respond right here.