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http://www.4ever3blog.com/2011/4/25/2131035/opinion-time-for-extenze-to-take-its-money-elsewhere
Opinion: Time For Extenze To Take Its Money Elsewhere
Quote: (2nd part of article)
Humor in racing isn't a bad thing. To the contrary, it's always been just about as necessary to the sport as tires and racing fuel. The brand of "humor" Extenze has brought along, though, has been anything but the kind of humor befitting of a sport that prides itself on being family-friendly.
A walk past the Extenze Racing souvenir trailer at Sprint Cup events last year would have revealed t-shirts with such slogans as "We Race Hard" and "Growing Our Fanbase, One Member At A Time." And those are the cleanest ones that could be quoted here.
Furthermore, a statement responding to an alleged assault by Robby Gordon against Conway in Las Vegas opened with this line, attributed to Conway himself: "I don't mind stiff competition, but I want to make sure the hard facts are told."
At the risk of being crude, it must be said: when your product's sole purpose is to help a man's woo-hoo, the only folks you're going to endear yourselves to with phrases like that in public are the Beavis and Butthead-types who still giggle like schoolboys anytime they hear the scientific terms for a man's woo-hoo or a woman's yee-haw.
It's hard to imagine that there is anyone else who take Conway and Extenze seriously at this point. And while drivers and companies that don't take themselves too seriously are often times healthy for the sport, this is a case of a driver and company looking at themselves and the field they're putting their cash into as one great big vulgar joke. Those kind of jokes are all fine and good for the bedroom, but they have no place at a race track.
To be sure, NASCAR isn't squaky-clean by any means. Radio chatter is often so sordid that Redd Foxx very well might have blushed were he alive and scanning a team's channel. In their private time, some drivers are also known to make some, well, less than wholesome remarks. Tony Stewart's 2008 Rolling Stone interview and Brian Vickers' Maxim piece from earlier this year - both penned by the same writer - illustrate that clearly.
Still, for a sport that portrays its public image as good, clean, wholesome fun for the whole family, NASCAR could do itself a favor by distancing itself from Extenze. Their involvement in the 2011 season - thankfully - has been limited to the Talladega farce, a failed attempt to make the Daytona 500, three Nationwide races with Conway at the wheel, and a near-victory in the Talladega Nationwide event with Joe Nemechek. While long-time fans perhaps owe them some gratitude for sponsoring Nemechek's ride in that event and giving him one more grasp at glory, in the big picture, it's probably best if Extenze bids motorsports adieu and leaves the bedroom jokes in the bedroom, or at least out of race tracks..
Opinion: Time For Extenze To Take Its Money Elsewhere
Quote: (2nd part of article)
Humor in racing isn't a bad thing. To the contrary, it's always been just about as necessary to the sport as tires and racing fuel. The brand of "humor" Extenze has brought along, though, has been anything but the kind of humor befitting of a sport that prides itself on being family-friendly.
A walk past the Extenze Racing souvenir trailer at Sprint Cup events last year would have revealed t-shirts with such slogans as "We Race Hard" and "Growing Our Fanbase, One Member At A Time." And those are the cleanest ones that could be quoted here.
Furthermore, a statement responding to an alleged assault by Robby Gordon against Conway in Las Vegas opened with this line, attributed to Conway himself: "I don't mind stiff competition, but I want to make sure the hard facts are told."
At the risk of being crude, it must be said: when your product's sole purpose is to help a man's woo-hoo, the only folks you're going to endear yourselves to with phrases like that in public are the Beavis and Butthead-types who still giggle like schoolboys anytime they hear the scientific terms for a man's woo-hoo or a woman's yee-haw.
It's hard to imagine that there is anyone else who take Conway and Extenze seriously at this point. And while drivers and companies that don't take themselves too seriously are often times healthy for the sport, this is a case of a driver and company looking at themselves and the field they're putting their cash into as one great big vulgar joke. Those kind of jokes are all fine and good for the bedroom, but they have no place at a race track.
To be sure, NASCAR isn't squaky-clean by any means. Radio chatter is often so sordid that Redd Foxx very well might have blushed were he alive and scanning a team's channel. In their private time, some drivers are also known to make some, well, less than wholesome remarks. Tony Stewart's 2008 Rolling Stone interview and Brian Vickers' Maxim piece from earlier this year - both penned by the same writer - illustrate that clearly.
Still, for a sport that portrays its public image as good, clean, wholesome fun for the whole family, NASCAR could do itself a favor by distancing itself from Extenze. Their involvement in the 2011 season - thankfully - has been limited to the Talladega farce, a failed attempt to make the Daytona 500, three Nationwide races with Conway at the wheel, and a near-victory in the Talladega Nationwide event with Joe Nemechek. While long-time fans perhaps owe them some gratitude for sponsoring Nemechek's ride in that event and giving him one more grasp at glory, in the big picture, it's probably best if Extenze bids motorsports adieu and leaves the bedroom jokes in the bedroom, or at least out of race tracks..
, but I found it weird for the new NASCAR game the car says extenze on it.
