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It's Over, NASCAR Settles! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hallelujah. Breaking news in the garage
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  area. NASCAR has settled with Michael
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  Jordan and Front Row Motorsports.
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  Deep breath, everybody. Well, let's talk about it.
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  Let's break it down for just a little bit.
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  Once again, breaking news in the garage area.
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  NASCAR has settled with Michael Jordan and Front Row
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  Motorsports. I don't know what it looks like.
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  The settlement agreements could be private.
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  I know we all are nosy. I want to know who got what.
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  But it's fair to say that Michael Jordan and Front Row
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  Motorsports got what they wanted or else they would not have
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  settled. Just think about it that way.
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  They got what they wanted. Or if they would not have
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  settled or they righted the ship, what that means is the
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  teams are going to get more TV money, right?
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  Because that's what they really wanted.
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  And, you know, they most likely got permanent charters, maybe an
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  Evergreen permanent charters, meaning that like Rodger Penske
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  said, when NASCAR does good, everybody does good.
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  When NASCAR does bad, then everybody gets less money.
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  So, you know, this morning we did coffee with Kenny and that's
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  the very first thing we said, hey, there could be a settlement
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  because the judge said to the jury, could you give us an hour?
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  I might be able to save you 2 hours.
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  But we all thought, well, it looks like the sport's going to
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  be saved. You can see it in my face.
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  I'm happy. Man.
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  Oh man, what a son of a bitch. That has been all race fans.
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  OK, so let's just talk a little bit more about what I think they
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  got. OK, now, now we're at a bar, now
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  we're at the local gas station and everybody's going to come up
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  to me and they're going to say, Herman, what do you think?
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  Michael Jordan in front row? What do you think they got?
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  Well, I think I just kind of said most of it.
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  I think we're going to right the ship.
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  I think NASCAR is going to, you know, they they were at a low
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  percentage of sharing revenue. OK.
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  So I think the teams are going to get more money.
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  I think they're going to get permanent charters and the
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  permanent charters. What do you mean permanent
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  charters? Well, you know, Jim France was
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  worried that if I gave you all permanent charters, what happens
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  if I can't, if I can't give you the money that I promised you 7
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  years ago? Well, they said no, no, it don't
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  work. We understand it don't work that
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  way. If if your TV contract is less
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  than the teams will get less Evergreen ebb and flow, right?
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  So man, old man, how about that something now?
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  OK, let's go this way. Why did they settle?
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  Well, I think it's right in front of us.
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  Did you see the letters? And I also think fan sentiment.
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  There was a, you know, life is kind of funny, right?
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  It's, it's like, let's compare it to family, OK, Now listen, I
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  love my family. This is not about me, but I, I
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  know a lot of people that don't like their family members,
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  right? It's like, listen, I'll talk bad
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  about my family members, but don't you talk bad about my
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  family members. And I see a lot of fans like
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  that. I see a lot of fans that like, I
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  don't like NASCAR, but when we start talking bad about NASCAR,
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  they don't like that. I've seen some of those people
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  out there. Well, here's my take on that.
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  Let's use from zero to 100%. It was like 95% of the fans
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  could clearly see that NASCAR was not being fair.
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  I mean, the media, we know. And I think, I think these are
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  my keys. When Jim France and Steve Phelps
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  kept saying, I don't know, I don't remember, Come on, guys,
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  let's D bull a little bit. When, when, when Jim France and
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  Steve Phelps said, I don't know, I don't remember.
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  That mean that means they don't want to talk about it.
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  They mean, I mean that that was not good.
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  OK, That's key #1 when your leaders, when the owner of
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  NASCAR and the president at that time, Steve Phelps was the
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  president at that time. By the way, this is a key take
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  away what I'm going to say, Steve Phelps, when I see you,
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  I'll give you a hug. But buddy, if you got a job
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  after this, I'll be shocked. I don't know how you're going to
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  ever overcome that. I'm going to take, I'm going to
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  steal one out of Mark Martin's page.
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  How, how does NASCAR overcome this?
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  I think I'm going to answer that right now.
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  How does NASCAR overcome this with the fans that are so angry
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  #1 show humility, get do a big press conference and say, look,
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  this is behind us. You know, we had a
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  misunderstanding. We corrected it and get all
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  these coroners to come out now and go, look, we're happy with
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  NASCAR. We had a family dispute, just
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  like all of you have family disputes and we fixed it.
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  So it sounds to me, you know, like happy days are here again
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  and it's all settled, everybody. And you know, but once again,
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  getting back to these key moments, we just now talked
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  about Steve Phelps, Jim France saying, I don't know, but I
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  think another one was yesterday was pivotal.
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  When you see the letters from Jim France's probably his dear
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  friend Rodger Penske and Rick Hendrick.
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  When you see Rodger Penske and Rick Hendrick Now, remember,
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  like I said in Coffee with Kenny, Rick Hendrick and Jim
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  France are buddies. Rick Hendrick created the Garage
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  56 project for Jim France. And when you seen that letter
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  that Rick Hendrick wrote to Jim France, I think Jim went, I
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  think that was it. He, Jim had to take that one in
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  the gut and he's like, and then when Rodger writes the letter,
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  now that's not all. When Johnny Morris now the
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  sponsors, now the sponsors, that's a different deal right
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  there. I think I think Jim took a
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  couple kicks in the gut that almost had nothing to do with
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  money had to do with come on, what's right, man?
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  You're just you're showing up here and this is not good.
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  And in the end, fan sentiment, right?
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  Jim had to get some vice that look, you pissed everybody off.
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  There's a chance that nobody will even show up because they
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  hate you so bad. Take your loss and move on.
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  Listen, let me throw the dagger in my back just to show you I've
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  been fired before, OK? So Furniture Row, they fired me,
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  said I couldn't drive. Well, guess what happened?
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  Not six months later, they hired me back and they said, Kenny, we
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  were wrong. We want to right the ship by
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  hiring you back. We want to enter a second car in
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  the Daytona 500, and there I was running 4th and 5th.
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  I was up the third in the Twin 125 at that time and I run 6 and
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  we made-up and we went on. They were wrong and and you got
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  to admit it. So there I I just threw the
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  dagger in my back and I told you a story equated to this one.
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  All right, respond right here, everybody.
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  The lawsuit is over. What does NASCAR need to do to
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  make you happy? I think all they need to do is
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  show humility and move forward. What a great day, everybody.
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  What a great day. We're headed to Daytona Wahoo.