NASCAR definitely IS a contact sport.
And that has never been made more apparent than after this weekend's Texas 500 race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.
Normally in NASCAR, when the caution flag comes out, it's because of something that has gone wrong with one of or multiple cars on the track. Once things get taken care of on the track, the cars are then allowed to get up to full speed again.
However, in this instance, the caution flag was out because of some idiot fan.
On Saturday night, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart ran over and killed 20-year-old Kevin Ward, Jr., during a sprint car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in Canandaigua, N.Y.
Earlier in the week, "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" posted the video of what the Internet community almost unanimously declared to be the worst version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" ever by the band Madison Rising before the start of the Nationwide race last Saturday in Daytona, Fla.
Billed by NASCAR as "America's most patriotic band", Madison Rising qui
It's safe to say that before Saturday, few had ever heard of the band Madison Rising.
But now people know who the band is. And that's not a good thing.
Billed by NASCAR as "America's most patriotic band", Madison Rising was called upon to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Saturday's Nationwide race...
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