Just check out the sparks between Harvick and Biffle. Ken Schrader would rather race than breathe air. Two weeks ago, on a Friday night he was in Savannah, GA, turning laps in a sprint car. So maybe things aren't all that bad after all. There still are people in America who have not forgotten the value of hard work, setting goals and getting your hands dirty trying to reach them.
Racers still exist who are willing to accept rules changes and just work that much harder to win.
It was sung by a woman whose name escapes me, and I don't know if she was lamenting the fact that are a lot less Marlboro man billboards around, or if it was an ironic musing that the rule 'it's OK for grown men to cry,' has grown out of control. In any case, when that song first hit radio airwaves, the disease took its course. The symptoms first showed sign of life when Bo Jackson retired, but that song just fed the disease.