Comparing Retirements of NASCAR's Dale Jarrett with WWE's Ric Flair

WWE did it up right when Ric Flair retired
NASCAR came up short in comparison
Two legends at the top of their game leaving the sport they love

I missed the prerace ceremonies for Jarrett but it couldn't have matched what RAW did for Ric Monday Nite.
Nor do I think Dale cried like a baby when other drivers were hugging him like Ric was doing.
It was all quite touching. Maybe because Jarrett will continue calling races, his retirement was less of an event. But with Flairs' good bye you couldn't help but feel sad and realize you were witnessing history. Even if the WWE is an overblown soap opera on steroids, the characters and story lines do suck ya' in and when they hit the mark they are quite memorable.

Comments

[RevJim]

Yeah, I find myself getting sucked into the WWE storylines myself. However, the NASCAR storylines almost rival them (Partsgate and the whole Lee White, Jack Roush rivalry, for example) and are not scripted as far as I can tell. And then there's the president of F-1's sanctioning body, Max Mosely, getting caught on tape playing NAZI slave master with five prostitutes. How's that for "can you top this?"

[ddd420]

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