Just in case anyone wonders why we hate Tony George...

[devilmaster]

Watch this from 1989.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=BpAJwHgpdNY

Or this from 1980.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9iyY5v19Oc

Decent crowds for qualifying right?

Now watch a clip from this year's pole day..... http://youtube.com/watch?v=v85t5mZZGbk

way to wreck the legacy :tony:, ya m****r f****r.

[Chitowncartfreak]

Sad, really. What a disgrace. Kind of reminds me of Spinal Tap - the once great falling to lower and lower lows.

[nrc]

It's like one of those tragic time travel paradox movies where the main character returns the future only to find that he's caused the disaster he was trying to prevent.

Except that in this case the character is too stupid to understand that so he just goes for a tenderloin and asks where everybody went.

:tony:: "Were'd everybody go?"
:gomer:: "Oh, well in this modern media marketplace there's so much competition for the entertainment dollar, plus you've established so many other world class events that create revenue for the Speedway and the entire population of the state of Indiana that people don't have to actually attend the events for Indy to be everything that it's always been."
:irked:: "You split the sport, drove it into the ground, and destroyed Indy, you moron."
:tony:: "But I'm still the boss of it, right?"

[Ziggy]

You have to remember also that the cars were slowed down for the 1980 race

[Spicoli]

TonyTard. Just when you think it can't get any worser, he steals the show.

:tony:

****ing *******.

[Chief]

Wow, in the '89 video the northwest vista magically transforms into full grandstands! Compare that with Saturday's HUGE DefENdR crowd.

For posterity, this is a good place to share an old Indy ticket rejection letter. Feel free to share with other forums if you must. IRL revisionists continue to reshape the old landscape as if it never existed. Here's proof of a once great civilization that has gone to hell because of Tony George's destructive influence on the Indy 500 (and open wheel in this country).

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9687/indytix85to4.jpg

[Spicoli]

^^^ that's ****ing AWESOME! ^^^^


what say you, Mr. Gomer?! :gomer:

[Chief]

WOW....Indystar putting heat on the speedway. I'm shocked but the cracks from this tremor has just begun.....it all still points to the Tony George gang...

IndyStar SLAMS IMS over AL Jr. Drug Testing (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070514/COLUMNISTS01/705140357/)
More to the point, why hasn't Unser been tested for drugs and alcohol this May?
Incredibly, Unser has never, ever been subjected to an Indy Racing League drug and alcohol test. He was tested by his former boss, Roger Penske, during a time in the late 1990s when Unser's excesses were common knowledge. But there was no IRL test after the 2002 incident. And there was none after his most recent run-in with the law, which occurred in January.
After Sunday's qualifying, a day in which Unser was bumped from the bubble and forced to re-qualify next weekend, race steward Brian Barnhart was asked, why hasn't Unser been tested?
"How do you know he hasn't?'' he responded.
Barnhart was told Unser had said he had never been tested.
The race's chief steward replied he was limited in what he could say by medical privacy laws.
The fact is, the IRL has the power to test if it has reasonable suspicion somebody in the garage area has a drug or alcohol issue. And yet, it has never tested Unser. Never.

[devilmaster]

Well, I'll give barnhart this, he can quickly recover from a lie with a lie.

Tony woulda just sat there with a duhhhh look on his face.

[Andrew Longman]

How about this from 1995? Nothing much was wrong with the entire season

http://youtube.com/watch?v=REVnUwlPlFc&mode=related&search=

[oddlycalm]

My sympathy to those of you that live in the pain zone of this regional event and have no choice but to see and read the local media reports. Painful stuff indeed. Since the only local mention of the five hunnert around here will be a 15 second sound bite on the final results we can easily avoid hearing about the month of May in Indy at all.

This wasn't always the case of course. Back in the pre-split era our local media carried the daily reports just like every other media outlet did. Nice job TG...:tony: :thumdown:

oc

[Indy]

Wow, in the '89 video the northwest vista magically transforms into full grandstands! Compare that with Saturday's HUGE DefENdR crowd.

For posterity, this is a good place to share an old Indy ticket rejection letter. Feel free to share with other forums if you must. IRL revisionists continue to reshape the old landscape as if it never existed. Here's proof of a once great civilization that has gone to hell because of Tony George's destructive influence on the Indy 500 (and open wheel in this country).

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I received several of those before I finally made it through the waiting list, to be awarded my coveted seats on the inside of Turn 2. Now I receive the ones begging me to come back.

Thanks, Tony! :flame:

[Spicoli]

I received several of those before I finally made it through the waiting list, to be awarded my coveted seats on the inside of Turn 2. Now I receive the ones begging me to come back.

Thanks, Tony! :flame:

Yep. My guess is that this year will be worse than ever. I'll bet you have scalpers handing out $5.00 tickets within 2 min utes of the start of the race.


There's VERY LITTLE buzz here in hooterville. :shakehead



EDIT: The unser story is creating quite a flurry of comments on the indystar boards. :)

http://www.topix.net/forum/source/indianapolis-star/T759203U6QQ22M8ED