I have heard several times, "Iowa, is that where they grow potatoes" It is really sad. This may be more a knock on education and really common sense. People really live in a bubble sometimes.
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It really depends on whether you think the rumor that USC killed PAC expansion into the B12 after OuT.
10 to 20 years ago you would have been correct, but today, few care about NASCAR like that anymore. My brother has tickets for the Kansas speedway since it opened, started with 2 then up to 4, now back to two. Him and another couple are the only ones I know that go to races anymore. Ten to twenty years or go I knew well over a dozen of people that went to races each year, Indy, Daytona, and just wanted to see the tracks. But that has died, over much of rural Iowa.
I know of no one that goes to Newton anymore, do know a few that go yearly to Knoxville, but only there.
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I'm not going to go back and find out how it started, but can we move the NASCAR discussion to a NASCAR thread? It's really annoying opening this up, looking to see what's happening on the PAC 12 realignment and it's people arguing about weather or not NASCAR is still popular.
I have mixed feelings on this. While I don't really think any type of Motorsports really fit as sports as in traditional sense, they do at least count as sports and unless you put them completely in their own category they at least are a subcategory of sports in general.
And with that, anyone that says it doesn't take physical ability to race in Nascar for hours at a time, or in a Motocross race or a superbike race, or throwing a snowmobile around in a Snocross race, or the extremes of an Indy race, I would have to say knows very little about motorsports.
I think my later post on this explains my point. Part of what you are describing is going on all over the country for a number of reasons. Not just in Iowa. So overall if Iowa was in the top 5 in the country 20 years ago in Nascar popularity, it still is today, because the trends you are describing is happening everywhere, leaving Iowa still where it was. But in a lot of respects this is not unique to Nascar. Other sports have had a reduction is viewers and attendance over the same timeframe too.
You should see how people manage the roundabouts in Cedar Rapids. You could absolutely sell tickets.
It's my fault. I had the nerve to disagree with speedy and of course that triggered a pissing match. No more NASCAR discussion!
My parents still live in Marion, putting in the roundabouts there is easily one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
Roundabouts have their place. But it really does seem like some planners force them in locations just because. Some places really have no point of having them, but the planners have roundabout fever so bad that they just cant help themselves.
Yes, it along with a lot of sports are dying out, 10 to 20 years ago, when it was increasing in numbers yearly, I asked a good friend about why they like to go? His answer was simple, they let us bring in huge cooler full of beer and other drinks and its 3 days of noise, crashes and drinking. When they started cracking down on the cooler size, and expanding into new areas, they forgot about the people that was causing the growth, and they will never get it back.
To me, NASCAR is like the wrestling crowd, they are a hardcore fan base, but it's a very small group, they absolutely love it, while most, could care less one way or another.
I think in the right settings they make plenty of sense. Marion isn't one of those. Just an example of newer city leaders wanting to be like the cool kids.
Round abouts are awesome, wish Ames had more. I still dont know how people cant figure it out.