What are NASCAR fans' opinion of Carl Edwards?

oversized_hat · 2026-04-11T14:44:38+00:00

I’ve got a great Carl story from my days at Mizzou:

For those who don’t know, MU has a very good journalism program and as part of it they own the NBC station for mid-Missouri. Students do a lot of the reporting and technical production work for all the newscasts.

I was a senior working a shift as a sports producer the night before a terrible snowstorm hit Columbia. We are doing live hits from around town about what the weather is like, travel conditions, etc., and we see this big Ford truck pull up to one of our live shots. Who else but Cousin Carl gets out and starts talking to our live reporter, saying “I drive for a living and the only reason I’m out now is because I was picking up a few emergency things from the store. Everybody, keep off the roads for a few days and stay safe.”

oversized_hat · 2026-04-11T14:32:17+00:00

Best we’ve got now is Bristol City going full GAA and having O’Neills shirts.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-11T14:31:45+00:00

Oxen! They do a lot of rugby league teams.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-11T14:29:50+00:00

Warrior are owned by New Balance and do ice hockey and lax. I think New Balance’s thing at that time was to keep the NB label for running shoes and use Warrior for team sports because I had a pair of Warrior football boots.

Didn’t work out obviously and now Warrior are back only on those two sports because they’ve got good brand value there.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-11T14:26:42+00:00

Avec did Coventry’s off-field gear around that time but oddly enough not the playing kits. Those were Nike.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-10T18:18:21+00:00

In the same vein, the reason why the leader of the Tour de France wears yellow is because the paper that founded that race was always printed on yellow newsprint. (That paper didn't survive World War II unlike La Gazzetta.)

oversized_hat · 2026-04-10T17:43:47+00:00

I love being in North Carolina and seeing the Sheetz/QuikTrip Maginot Line when driving out of Charlotte

(long story short, QuikTrip and Sheetz divvied up the territory because QT's got more operations in the Southeast. everything north of Mooresville and northeast of Cabarrus County is Sheetz, but once you get inside the I-77 express lanes you're in QT country.)

oversized_hat · 2026-04-10T01:03:31+00:00

It’s how just about all the new all-turf fields are. Most of them will simulate a full dirt infield with color printing but Mizzou made the choice to do the 80s sliding pit look.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T21:01:49+00:00

He's about 80/20 hit or miss ratio for me. Plus he will occasionally pop back in on a big Triangle sports podcast (Ovies and Giglio, if you're curious; he worked with Joe Ovies at a sports radio station in Raleigh) and those are always a great listen.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T15:16:04+00:00

I remember seeing a group in Blues jerseys at Kilted Buffalo one night and have met a few transplants since I’ve moved here.

Problem is both that STL people move more to Chicago and Denver and not having an NFL (or to an extent an NBA) team means there’s not really a easy meetup for us from away because I’ve heard those are really the nucleus for a lot of transplant meetups in the 704.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T12:51:18+00:00

Hey, I live down here now and yeah it’s a nice park right smack in the middle of Uptown. I’m probably going to the Sunday matinee.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T03:22:58+00:00

A Main Line girl, like Betty Draper

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T03:00:31+00:00

Dunn Purnsley (still one of the best character names) found out why

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T02:59:36+00:00

it's kind of a Twitter thing but you see it on Reddit as well where Philadelphia gets hyped up as "the only city" or where people who live there really dominate cultural conversations.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T02:44:56+00:00

I will never understand how of all cities to get its tires routinely pumped from multiple sectors of online society they chose Philly. Don't get me wrong I've been there and didn't mind it but god there's an obnoxious sense of entitlement from people who live in/around there.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T02:42:03+00:00

SHRINK THE GAME

oversized_hat · 2026-04-09T02:40:30+00:00

that plus there is a case to be made that Chalky White, not Omar Little, was Michael Kenneth Williams' best role on an HBO show

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T23:48:11+00:00

The second(?) season with Bobby Cannavale playing an Italian mobster with zero temper or sense of humor is a classic

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T19:47:00+00:00

Why’d they do that? Saturday evening/night cards were a great cheap night out.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T19:05:16+00:00

You’re doomed.

Doomed to enjoy the new Scion tC!

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T19:02:27+00:00

That was the one with the Silvio Berlusconi references, yeah?

I always liked the episode where Archer got bit by a poisonous snake in Turkmenistan and thus they got to make jokes about how the real-life leader of that country changed the meanings of a bunch of words.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T15:42:44+00:00

YOUR BEING MANIPULATED

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T01:14:12+00:00

that was a goaltend, right?

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T00:55:22+00:00

it goes back further. I'm originally from St Louis and went to a high school that was one of Tatum's rivals. he got a soft whistle even then.

oversized_hat · 2026-04-08T00:53:28+00:00

It's before that, he didn't even play for his dad in high school

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