Many of us here absolutely love The Onion. Though some of us think it was much funnier before the .com was added and when it was only available in a dead-tree version, it still routinely gets laughs out of us.
Now take that irreverent, sarcasm and point it at NASCAR. Not much challenge making fun of the often-lampooned racing series, you might say. But Black Flagged Online does it pretty well. The site features headlines like, "Mike Joy One Boogity Away From Jumping From Broadcast Booth," and "Daytona Fence Relieved with Stewart's Third Place Finish," to classified ads selling things like a 30-pack of Natural Ice with any opened cans at half price.
Also worthy of reading are readers' letters and the editors' responses. One quite-offended NASCAR fan's recent complaint got this response from the site, which we think sums up what BFO is all about:
Please keep in mind there are two things that blackflaggedonline.com doesn't worry about: the truth and fancy luxuries like web design. We are like drinking a cheap beer out of a brown paper bag. No frills.
Funny stuff. And please, if you, too, are offended by their humor, write them a letter so we can get even more laughs out of their response to you.
[Source: Black Flagged Online]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PapaWhiskey @ Feb 25th 2008 7:23PM
Why don't you quit beating around the bush aand come out and say that anyone who enjoys watching a NASCAR race is a bufoon who probably is a product of inbreeding.
I guess I'm just not as sophisticated as you are Chris. All is not lost though, Someday I might be privileged enough to enjoy watching F1 or GT racing.
Justin @ Feb 25th 2008 7:48PM
While I don't really like the path NASCAR is taking for the future (I still watch it for the v8 muscle), I will defend it from those who have to resort to stereotypes against it. I say this as a huge alms/ama/motogp fan.
My baseball/football/baseball friends say nascar and basically all racing is boring. I simply respond by saying that baseball/football/baseball is boring, because it is in my OPINION. If you don't like something, that doesn't mean its ultimately worse, just say its not your preference.
When nascar-bashing comes into the equation, people forget what personal preference/opinion is. When they compare other sports, they suddenly remember again.
Uncle Bo @ Feb 25th 2008 7:52PM
Lots of buffoons and inbreds love NASCAR. One I know upgraded his $400,000 Fleetwood motorcoach (too plain, he said) to a $700,000 Newell custom coach. The same "inbred" buys a new Cessna Citation and orders a new one at the same time, reason being he can use one then sell it at full retail when the next one is ready. Gotta be a real dummy to afford things like that.
Another NASCAR "buffoon" has a fleet of beautiful cars in various locations around the country. Let me tell ya, the 2nd gear acceleration of his Ford GT is incredible and must be experienced.
I used to know a NASCAR "inbred" who loved WWF wrestling, too. One day he decided he didn't like the long trip from his ranch to the local airport, so he built his own private airstrip on his property for his Gulfstream G-IV. It was awesome being picked up by his pilot and flown to Charlotte to watch a race, then flown home afterwards.
Yep, lots of multi-millionaires.... I mean "morons" love that NASCAR racing. They boogity-boogity-boogity themselves straight to the bank. Not many sports car racers I've met can do that.
Brendan @ Feb 25th 2008 9:00PM
No offense, but people can be as rich as they want and still be hicks (if you will). Just like all those rappers who are street-this ghetto-that while living the high life, or that guy down the street (depending on your neighborhood) who might not make so much money but still has a nice car.
possessions =/= who you are
VP @ Feb 25th 2008 8:18PM
Maybe Neff & Co should change their site name to nascarsucks.com or something. Everyday there is a new dig on this site against NASCAR. Yeah you don't like NASCAR. We got that part.
There are plenty of site on the world wide web making man of F1 parade (sorryyy i heard 70 years ago there was racing involved back then), but none of you seem very inclined to give some publicity to them. Is onion also on AOL payroll now?
Brendan @ Feb 25th 2008 8:56PM
Wow, a post about a fake news site and Autoblog suddenly hates nascar. I wonder if all the network news fans come out like this when a Television Blog makes posts about The Daily Show.
Yeah, yeah, I get it, I've seen plenty of articles on here where it's knocked or otherwise blasted (and don't get me wrong - I can't stand the series myself), but you guys choose to exert all this flame energy on a post that doesn't actually deserve it.
MajorGeek @ Feb 25th 2008 9:09PM
Its a joke site, have a laugh and get over it.
Tagg @ Feb 25th 2008 9:40PM
I think NASCAR fans are much thicker skinned than most of the F1, WRC and ALMS fans are on Autoblog. After all, they are the ones that cannot resist making a smug comment about every NASCAR post.
Noidor @ Feb 25th 2008 11:00PM
Yea you know as was proven earlier, saying stuff like, "nascar sucks", "Hillary for President", "Country music's rubbish", "Dodge'y'" will get you a LOT of negative attention from "those" kinds of folks, aaand apparently they like mating with vegetables.
killerpizza @ Feb 25th 2008 11:14PM
WWF wrestling ... ??
now, that really makes nascar drivers look bright.
drifter28 @ Feb 26th 2008 1:26AM
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Under blue skies Monday, some 21 hours after the race had started, Carl Edwards put the finishing touches on the rain-delayed Auto Club 500 at beleaguered Auto Club Speedway.
After caution flew on the final lap for Dale Jarrett's spin, Edwards crossed the finish ahead of runner-up Jimmie Johnson and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon, who atoned for disappointing finishes in the Feb. 17 Daytona 500.
Kyle Busch claimed the Sprint Cup points lead with a fourth-place finish in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, and Matt Kenseth, who had won the previous two February races at the 2-mile track, ran fifth. Martin Truex Jr., Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne and Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman completed the top 10.
The sunshine that bathed Edwards' run to victory was a sharp contrast to the conditions that stopped the race shortly after 2 a.m. ET. After a rain delay that began at 9:12 p.m. Sunday, NASCAR's efforts to dry the track were frustrated by a high dew point, high humidity and seepage of water through the racing surface (read more).
Accordingly, the sanctioning body postponed the final 163 laps of the 250-lap race until 1 p.m. ET Monday, extending the red-flag period to 15 hours, 49 minutes and 54 seconds before the resumption.
"The track was a little bit different," Edwards said of the conditions on Monday. "It was fun to race here in the sun. ... If we have a 55-hour red flag, we're still going to go out there and race as hard as possible. We've all had to wait through rain delays when the anxiety builds up.
"I was lucky that [Johnson] was a little bit loose, because it would have been really, really tough to get by him if he wasn't loose."
Edwards restarted fourth on Lap 225 after a pit stop under caution for four tires. After dispatching Roush Fenway teammate Jamie McMurray, who had taken two tires, Edwards passed Gordon for second position on Lap 233 and overtook Johnson through Turns 1 and 2 on Lap 238.
Johnson regained the top position in Turn 3 and won a drag race to the finish line, but Edwards retook the lead on Lap 239 and expanded his advantage until Jarrett's spin on the white-flag lap froze the field.
"Nobody was going to beat the 99 today," Gordon said. "I blew up off Turn 2 on the final lap, so we were very fortunate."
Busch heads to Sunday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a six-point lead over Newman and a 19-point advantage over JGR teammate Stewart.
"Overall, it was a good points day for us," said Busch, who also claimed the points lead in the Craftsman Truck Series with a win in Saturday's San Bernardino County 200. "When you don't have a winning car, the mission is to get a top-five."
What had seemed an interminable Sprint Cup weekend finally came to an end Monday after two red-flag periods had interrupted Sunday's racing -- the first to cut grooves in Turns 3 and 4 to help drain seeping water from the racing surface and the second because of a downpour that ultimately forced the postponement after 87 laps were complete.
Gordon had the dominant car at that point, having led 57 of the 87 laps, but thanks to quick work in the pits under caution on Lap 83, it was Johnson who led the field to the restart on Lap 91 after the overnight stoppage.
Wet conditions in the corners created havoc in the early stages of the race, as Denny Hamlin hit a wet spot and slammed into the Turn 4 wall on Lap 14. On Lap 21, Casey Mears lost control of his No. 5 Chevy after his left-side tires rolled across a wet seam in Turn 1.
After bouncing off the wall, Mears collected the No. 88 Chevy of Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. That wreck also crippled the cars of Reed Sorenson and rookie Sam Hornish Jr.
Notes: Dale Jarrett stayed on the track and led three laps under the third caution of the race, the first laps he has led since Oct. 8, 2006, at Talladega. ... Dario Franchitti also led a lap before pitting under caution on Lap 85. That's the first time the open-wheel star has led a Cup race.
ronnie @ Feb 26th 2008 5:52AM
I think Nascar has great show same to F1 race . . . It can bought excite everyone who watch it . . .
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Sean Flanagan @ Feb 26th 2008 9:37AM
NASCAR is the Britney Spears of the auto racing world. It does its best to look polished and upscale, but the underlying roots always show through somehow. Tons of people follow its every move. Lots of them are really big fans, but there are a whole hell of a lot who watch from the outside and laugh.
Greg @ Feb 26th 2008 10:24AM
Has no one else noticed that The Onion has a sports section? They mock all of the major sports, it's what they do. Lighten the hell up.
Jackattak @ Feb 26th 2008 2:31PM
Geez you'd think people in this country forgot how to laugh. Say anything you want about rap music or the ghetto but the VERY SECOND someone tries to joke about rednecks, NASCAR, Natty Light, or country they get all bent outta shape.
Git over yerselves, Buck and Jeeter. Most people think yer "sport" is loserific.
And having money has nothing to do with your status. I know plenty of rednecks with money and guess what? They're still rednecks.