Daytona 500, Elimination Chamber, And getting engaged??? Craziness

This weekend was the official beginning to the Nascar season. The Daytona 500! The biggest race of the year. This is the 10 year anniversary of Dale Sr. passing away due to a crash on the last lap of this very race. Even the people who disliked him as a driver, miss him dearly. The ceremonies before each race are always the same. They have a live concert at the track, pre-race interviews, comparisons to last year. We all check where our drivers are starting, how they did in practice and where they are in the points standing. We all make our predictions based on if it's a road course, a short track, or a long track. People who aren't race fans will never understand us and it's pointless to try and explain it. 


This years 500 had a record breaking 16 cautions which took up over a third of the race!!! There were some nasty wrecks. A lot of the field ended the race with a lot less car than they started the race. Or at least they had a lot of tape holding it together. Some cars of top notch drivers were out early. They had a new strategy this year that had a lot of engines over heating due to lack of air getting to the engine and the higher RPM's. Tandem drafting. It's amazing when they all pair up in teams of 2 how much faster those cars can go. But when things go wrong, they go really wrong.


But this years race was definitely interesting. A rookie, who turned 20 the day before, won the Dayton 500. He doesn't even have a full ride! But he did great. He missed victory lane which of course they showed all day today during his interviews. How did he celebrate? He's not old enough to drink??? It was definitely not how a lot of the drivers wanted to start their season but 15 car pile ups will do that. But that's what next Sunday is for!

Now the WWE Elimination Chamber definitely can't be described to someone who hasn't seen it before. All I can say is, I'm so glad Cena won and that CM Punk got his butt whooped! I wish that Santino had pulled out the double Cobra to keep the Tag Team Titles but hey can't have everything. Unfortunately The Miz beat The King. And of course Edge won his chamber match and Christian reappeared and came to the rescue when freaking Del Rio decided to butt in. I still wish HHH had appeared but no such luck. But then tonight on Raw the Dead Man and HHH reappeared!!! So that was awesome. But neither of them said a word. What the hell is that??? If you don't know WWE sign language, you aren't gonna know what the heck they said. We will see.


It was a very eventful weekend including having Monday off. Unfortunately now I have to go back to work :(