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NASCAR Hall Of Fame: Are We Running Out Of People? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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Happy snow. A gammon.
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Happy Saturday, everybody. The day clock says it's
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Saturday. All right.
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mods and B mods. Be there.
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Negative temperatures everywhere, heavy snow streaks
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across Mid-Atlantic states. The snow is so exciting for
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everybody in Charlotte, NC. I'm excited for you all.
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All right, there's so much to say.
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As I predicted years ago, the NASCAR Hall of Fame is
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wonderful. I think it's absolutely the
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greatest to celebrate those drivers that gave their whole
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lives to NASCAR. I think it's awesome.
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However, I said that we would run out of people and here's
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why. In Major League Baseball and in
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NFL, you have 22 players per team.
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That's very it's very important to remember.
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So it in in other sports, which we're not like we're not like
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other sports. However, the other sports will
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never run out of Hall of Fame people because they got way more
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people in NASCAR. What we have is we have, you
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know, I mean, I really mean this respond right here.
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Everybody help me if you think I'm wrong.
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I, I don't care. I don't mind being wrong.
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I don't mind being wrong, but I did the math does not add up for
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the NASCAR Hall of Fame. I don't see how you're going to
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put somebody in the Hall of Fame every year unless we don't pay
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attention to stats, and that's where I come in.
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Dale Jarrett just said something that I totally agree with.
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He said. We're going to have to start
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putting people in the Hall of Fame that have done more than
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winning and they are not superstars, Dale Jarrett said.
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I want to see Jimmy Makar. Jimmy Makar was on Brother
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Rusty's team, the Blue Max team, you know, the number 27 Kodiak
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car. Jimmy Makar was a great crew
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chief, but he started Joe Gibbs Racing.
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Now you might not know Jimmy. He might not be a superstar, but
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he was pivotal. He did start Joe Gibbs Racing.
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Then the other one that I agree with is my friend Jeff Burton.
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Jeff Burton won about 22 Cup races.
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I think he's a superstar inside the garage area.
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Jeff Burton is a superstar. Here's why, Because he's the
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mayor, he's very pivotal at the start of safety.
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He basically Jeff Burton was the very first driver to run the
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self-contained seat, not the first for the Hans device.
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The Hans device was way before us Indycars ran the Hans device.
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But the self-contained seat, Jeff Burton was the very first
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one to show up at Daytona. And everybody go, what the hell
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is Jeff Burton doing? That's just an example, but
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let's do the math a little bit, OK?
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Once again, I'm reminding everybody the NASCAR Hall of
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Fame is going to run out of and basically is running out of
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people to put in the Hall of Fame.
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And Dale, I'm just, I just got this story from Dale Jarrett.
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Don't don't blame it on me. Claire B Lang.
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Claire B Lang was interviewing Dale Jarrett.
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Dale Jarrett was the one that said this.
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Now, so if we're to put in three drivers per year and you got a
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40 car starting field, which you can't go with 40, OK, let's just
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say half the field, let's just say 20, 36912 3rd port 15 in
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eight years you have everybody in.
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If you put in three drivers per year, now you got to start
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grabbing crew chiefs, tire changers, right?
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So respond right here, respond right here.
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How are we going to? I mean, we should be out of
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people for the Hall of Fame, right?
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OK, Who do you think belongs in the Hall of Fame that is not a
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superstar. So superstar is debatable.
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What is a superstar? I think a superstar's.
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I think a real superstar is Dale Earnhardt Junior.
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He's known throughout the world and he's and he doesn't even
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race anymore. However, he is a superstar
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because of all the reasons Dale Earnhardt senior son he he was
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the MTV era. He wore the hat backwards.
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He won a lot of races, he won a lot of Xfinity championship.
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Dale Junior's flat ass good, but more importantly, he drew
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millions of new fans to the sport.
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And that's where I think Dale Jarrett is exactly right.
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We got to start putting people in the Hall of Fame and and he
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said it. I didn't say it.
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Dale Jarrett said that maybe aren't superstars.
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Then he caught himself and he said, well, Jeff Gordon is a
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superstar. Now listen, Jeff Burton is my
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dear friend. We just did.
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He is Kenny conversation this week right now.
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I spent over an hour with Jeff Burton.
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So that is the conversation. Is Jeff Burton the next person
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to put in the Hall of Fame? Not just for his 22 wins in the
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Cup Series, but more importantly because he created safety in
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NASCAR and right now he's on NBC.
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He's part of the driver council for the Race and Alliance.
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All right, everybody. I think that's a good one.
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And give me some people that aren't superstars.
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Respond right here. Give me some people that are not
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superstars that need to be in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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Larry McReynolds, Larry McReynolds has devoted his whole
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life. Larry McReynolds gave Dale
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Senior his very first Daytona 500 win, his first and only.
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I think Larry McReynolds should be in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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I really do. I really do.
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All right, everybody have a great snowy weekend.
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Keep that. Keep that electricity rolling,
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baby. Get yourself a generator.