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My Take On The Bobby Allison 85th Win Controversy · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's a tea with Kenny on a Wednesday night emergency press
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  conference. So that that's D.
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  That was Kim's mom. Calm down.
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  Who's that Lady? So I'm waiting on Kim.
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  She's downstairs. We're going to go eat.
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  I just got back from Atlanta. I walked in the door and she
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  says I need some white paint. I like let me get in the door.
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  So I washed my own fire suit. So I've got it all put up at the
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  shop. Said hi to Brody, going to
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  interview Kevin Rumley in the morning.
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  I told Brody, I said I've had enough.
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  So I'll see you up at the shop at 11:30 on Thursday morning,
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  wash the dirt car, get everything ready to go for
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  Springfield. And then we got a wedding on
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  Saturday night. So I will not be racing anywhere
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  this weekend. My next race would be
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  Springfield, MO, like November 15th, 16th, something like that.
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  All right, so Bobby Allison. All right, people, I'm reading
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  social media. There are a lot of people that
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  are looking at this as like, what?
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  What do you mean? Oh, now we're going to go back
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  and make everything right. So Mike Helton told me one time,
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  you know, I thought Mike was mad at me when I gave my opinion
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  about Carl Edwards. Well, he really wasn't.
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  But there's a deal like, hey, you know, don't believe
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  everything you read and call me. So I assume I could call Mike,
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  but I'm not going to because it's late at night and I want to
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  give my opinion without hearing any information because I'm not
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  a journalist. So I want to give my raw thought
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  what I think the so the optics, in other words, why did they do
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  that? What's that look like?
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  So I don't want to hear the truth.
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  I want to give you what's called an optical answer.
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  I want to, I want to tell you what the optics are, in other
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  words, what it looks like. Then somebody can call me and
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  tell me what happened. You understand?
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  It's like when something happens and somebody goes, oh, and that
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  ain't really what happened. So what I'm probably going to
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  say isn't really what happened, but here's what it looks like.
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  OK, I know too much. I've talked to Bobby Allison 30
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  years ago and he is pissed about not getting that 85th win.
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  I said it. I said it because Bobby told me
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  he would say I'm irked Kenny because Bobby doesn't cuss and I
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  I learned that in Birmingham, AL at Bobby shop.
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  I was there because I'm that old.
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  Went there with Rusty and Davy Allison was there and Davy was
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  working on his late model stock. And I think Clifford said a cuss
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  word. And Clifford, you really are to
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  me, Clifford. You know, we lost Clifford, but
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  he was a wonderful soul. But he was the rebel.
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  And so I know Bobby a little bit, OK?
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  I know Bobby Allis a little bit. And he was highly pissed about
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  not getting that 85th win. So I'm going to tell you what I
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  think because of the way I think, OK, Now I know NASCAR's
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  watching this, so call me up and tell me really what happened.
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  You probably won't. But I'm going to tell you what
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  it looks like. It looks like Bobby Allison
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  called my brother Rusty, and somebody called Rodger Penske,
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  and somebody got a hold of Mike Elton.
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  And it looks like somebody said, hey, Bobby's getting up in age.
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  This was wrong years ago. You need to make this right now
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  while you can. So everybody heard Matthew
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  Diller as reported by Matthew Diller on Flow.
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  He did a wonderful 3 minute deal and here I am at 4 minutes and
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  30 seconds. So Matthew broke it down and you
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  know, we talked about all the economy is bad, the car counts
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  down. Well, Matthew Diller said back
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  in those days, the car count was way down at NASCAR.
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  So they married the Cup cars and the Grand American division, I
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  believe one of those. Anyway, they married 2 divisions
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  together. And Bobby said, hell, I'm going
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  to run that that car because it's faster.
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  Bobby was a right. Bobby was a racer.
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  Bobby Allison, he Hueytown, AL built, built his cars, had a
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  neat little team. That's where Rusty and all of us
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  get it from. Bobby is a racer, right?
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  He taught, he taught Davey to be a racer.
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  So Bobby's like hell with that. I'm not running a cup car.
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  I'm going to run this car. And he won the race and it was a
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  cup race, but it was kind of like, well, there was 2
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  together, but hey, it was a cup race.
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  So. And here's what Matthew Diller
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  said, Tiny Lun #55 the Pepsi car kick ass like 68.
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  Camaro later on that series become like the Grand American
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  division, something like that. But he won two races.
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  Tiny Lund won two. Well, they gave him his wins and
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  they gave it to him. Tiny Lund two time cup winner,
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  but they never give Bobby his win.
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  So Bobby could never let that go all his life and and and here he
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  was one he was tied with his nemesis, these older drivers.
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  Hey, we're pussies compared to them.
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  Herman, watch your mouth. Sorry about that, but I'm not
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  going to start the video over. I apologize.
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  I never meant to make your daughter cry.
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  I apologize. So anyway, we're wimps, let's
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  put it that way. So instead of using that word,
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  we'll say we're wimps nowadays. Back in those days when somebody
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  hated somebody, they hated them the rest of their life.
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  And that's the way those NASCAR guys were.
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  I talk to Kyle Petty all the time.
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  Kala tell you that Bobby Allison, Richard, all those
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  guys, they still don't like some of each other.
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  I mean, you know, I I'm sure somebody's going to tell Darryl
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  Walter this, but Darryl, Darryl, none of those guys are angels.
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  We we get over stuff and we just roll on.
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  But those guys born back in the what were they born in the 30s
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  or no, I'd say 40s. See, Daryl's in his 70s.
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  My dad, I'd say he's born in their late 40s, early 50s.
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  Those guys hold a vendetta. They hate each other.
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  My Mama taught me, don't use the word hate, but they don't
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  dislike each other. They hate each other.
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  So now I painted the picture for you.
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  Bobby Allison moving 11 win ahead of Daryl Walter.
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  Now he can die at peace. I mean, I just tell him the way
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  I see it. So I think somebody got a hold
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  of NASCAR, maybe not Rusty, maybe not Rodger, maybe
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  somebody. But let me tell you that the
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  optics, the pitcher, Jim France and Mike Helton, Jim France owns
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  a NASCAR. Mike Helton vice chairman.
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  Those two are are pretty much they're NASCAR, OK?
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  So I don't like when people do that.
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  And I don't know why I do that. K, It's like period, K, period.
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  But that's what I think. So now whoever's involved,
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  you've probably got my phone number.
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  Text me and tell me what really happened.
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  But to me, that's what really happened.
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  Somebody got a hold of NASCAR and said, hey, Bobby's getting
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  up there in years and need to make this right.
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  So, you know, all right, I said what I said.
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  Respond right here, Herman. Say what you mean and mean what
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  you say. So I said it, and I'm full of
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  love. I love everybody.