Word: earnhardts
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Some years ago, someone asked three-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip why racing fans loved Dale Earnhardt. "Did you ever look in the grandstands?" Waltrip said. "There's your answer. Dale is one of them...
...Earnhardt crash, tragic as it may be, could be its ticket. The deadly mishap landed Earnhardt - and NASCAR - at the top of every Sunday-night newscast and on the front page of every Monday-morning newspaper. The sport wanted to reach a wider audience, gain a greater legitimacy. And for anyone whose interest in the sport was piqued by the news - and whose wasn't? - the Earnhardt obituary makes a sad-but-perfect introduction...
...With an eighth-grade education, a push-broom mustache and a from-the-gut driving style that earned him the nickname "The Intimidator," Earnhardt was as apt a face as any for a sport whose roots lie with Prohibition-era bootleggers who souped up their cars to outrun fat sheriffs on dusty Dixie roads, and he had a devilish grin to match anything Burt Reynolds flashed in "Smokey and the Bandit...