Wrestlemania had 73,000 people in attendance this year

[WonderGrunion]

NASCAR's Autoclub 500 had about 72,000 in attendance. Until I see a Tea Party protest or a Sarah Palin rally pull in numbers like these, they are still in the minor leagues of redneck entertainment.

[Grand Taurean]

1. LOL! ROFL!

:rofl:

[WonderGrunion]

3. Obama drew nearl 1/2 million to Grant Park

The Republics WISH they had our star power.

[Enrique]

2. teabaggers hate NASCAR and wrestling

too elitist. ;-)

[onehandle]

4. Even the Summer Redneck Games has a bigger pull than teabagger events.

As legend tells it, a host of volunteers put together a ridiculous schedule of “Redneck Games” for locals to compete in. They expected a small turnout, some decent weather, and a few laughs..

What they got was a little slice of Dixie magic. The first year, they expected 500 people to show up. They got 5,000 instead.

Since then, the Redneck Games have expanded into an annual major event. Over the last decade, roughly 95,000 individuals have attended the one-day extravaganza.

http://summerredneckgames.com/about/

[WonderGrunion]

5. Maybe if Teahadists had fewer mis-spelled protest signs

and more mud events, they would draw more people to their events.

[proteus_lives]

6. I know a huge wrestling fan.

Been one since he was a kid. It's one of his favorite hobbies.

He's also a Ph.D student and one of the smartest men I know.

NASCAR? Biggest fan I know is an Indian tattoo artist. She loves it, has since she immigrated to the U.S.

"redneck entertainment" :puke:

What are your hobbies and interests? Opera? 19th century French artists? German cinema from the 1920s? :eyes:

I've collected comic books since I was six years old. What does that make me?

[grantcart]

If you kept them in mint condition - rich

[proteus_lives]

10. Oh I do.

It's a labor of love.

[grantcart]

7. If you kept them in mint condition - rich

[Ron Green]

8. Opera, art and expressionist cinema are pretty damn cool, in my opinion.

NASCAR and wrestling, not so much.

They just don't seem to go anywhere.

[proteus_lives]

11. It's all POV and it's pointless to piss on other's hobbies.

I'd rather get a tooth pulled then go to an opera, been once. That was enough.

"They just don't seem to go anywhere"

Where do your hobbies go?

[Ron Green]

13. Well, you gotta go to more than one opera to figure out what's in there.

And more than one good movie. And you have to look at more than one painting. And read lots of books, too. But if the monster truck race takes up most of your time... I mean, we only have 168 hours a week, any one of us. We have to choose.

And I'm not pissing on anyone's hobbies. NASCAR won't suffer without my support, but if I can hip a friend to the orchestra concert, there's progress.

[baldguy]

16. Funny, I thought professional wresting *WAS* opera.

The singing needs work, but all the melodrama is there.

[WonderGrunion]

17. For some reason you took this as a slam against wrestling and NASCAR

I hosted a Wrestlemania party and shelled out $65 for the PPV. I've collected comic books since the 1970's. That makes me a comic nerd. If you'd bother to google my screen name, you'd find out that it's the name of the superhero I created for Superguy digest (the longest running active fiction site in the history of the internet, natch).

This was a slam against Palin and the Tea Klux Klan.

[tmyers09]

9. I've been a wrestling fan ever since I was born.

Is it tacky? Yes. Is it cheesy? Of course. But somehow, I love it. The modern-day stuff, not that great, but the older stuff - the mid 80's to the early 00's - was great entertainment. The personalities were fun, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior (who is actually right-wing and insane these days, he actually changed his legal name to "Warrior") to name a few. Even though the McMahon family are Repubs (at least the parents, Vince and Linda are. I don't know for sure about Shane and Stephanie).

[tomm2thumbs]

12. +1 - and until they aren't identical crowds each and every time either!

tea baggers are starting to look familiar in all these various demonstrations they do

[chollybocker]

14. Teabaggers hate watching NASCAR.... The drivers keep turning left.

ba-da-boom.

[get the red out]

15. SEC Football is right around the corner

Me and the teabaggers can agree on watching that together, LOL!

[DainBramaged]

18. Immigration reform protesters FILLED 5 blocks in DC in March

and went virtually uncovered except from the major east coast papers.

[HughBeaumont]

20. Same with . . . well . . . EVERY anti-war protest in the past 10 years.

In D.C., and usually without ANY mainstream media promotion whatsoever (unlike the Tea Klux Klowns, who have the luxury of a Dick Armey MSM pre-tour), anywhere from 30,000 to half a million made their anti-war voice heard at various dates this past decade. We didn't care if it was cold, rain or sun, we were there.

And where was the "liberal media"? Nowhere to be seen. AT ALL. It was like it never happened.

Yet, get 70,000 batshit insane, red-baiting hatemongers to D.C. for their foot-shooter rant-a-thon and Faux, CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, CNBC, etc, treat it as the second coming of the March on Washington, lying and putting attendance numbers on the same level with Woodstock and Obama's inauguration. All of these stations paraded these lunatics and their misspelled signs hour after hour; Glenn Beck was so proud at what he accomplished with these Chickens for Colonel Sanders.

[melm00se]

19. there is no accounting for taste

People will find their entertainment and hobbies where they will and running them down for it just shows your ass.

You don't like NASCAR? fine. no one is forcing you to watch it but don't denigrate those who do.