Stock car racing isn't just a Southern sport, although it originated from drivers outrunning the law in souped up junkers while carrying moonshine across state lines. This sport is gaining popularity all over the world. Being a proud Southern woman, I have a nodding acquaintance with stock car racing and follow it from a distance. I also follow college football, soccer, golf, baseball, and have been involved in those Southern niceties of fishing, hunting, snipe hunting, and frog-giggin . Given my background, I know that racing isn't the only sport where folks seemingly put their lives on the line.
All sports have risks.
Take the sport of soccer, for example. There have been bloody noses, bruised arms, scraped knees, and hurt feelings. Concussions, broken ribs, broken fingers, broken collar bones, sprained ankles, eye strain from ogling the cheerleaders, and face paint poisoning. Ankle injuries, torn ligaments, injuries resulting from having an elbow smashed in your face, and wax burns from dramatically falling on the court hoping for a foul. Angry fans, pulled muscles, shoulder injuries, flying bats, excessive scratching of private parts, and risk of slipping and falling into puddles of tobacco-laced spit.