Shaft As A Cat
He’s sooooooo going to kick my ass when he sees this tomorrow ! 🙂
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If….? I am panther-like on my feet.
If Shaft could lick himself like that he would be a cat in a second. Discuss.
Yo TL … sorry !! 🙂 Certainly didn’t mean to offend you, just teasing. Sorry !
Let us all now return to our regularly scheduled programming … Mocking Amy !! 🙂
Okay, hereÓ³ the deal Å I promise to never mention NASCAR (or another type of racing) again AS LONG AS everyone else out there doesnÓ´ trash talk it. I donÓ´ trash talk sports that others like so why does everyone else feel like they have to trash talk a sport that I happen to like. So donÓ´ even go there again, Amy.
What’s the ESPN criteria ?? I’m open to hearing and considering other, more objective, definitions of a sport than my very subjective “it’s a sport only if I say it is” standard ! 🙂
I used the ESPN standard, sadly Nascar they consider a sport,though in my book NASCAR is down there with mmmm professional wrestling.
Baseball, Basketball, Football (American-style) and Hockey are the only four sports.
Everything else …
Is an activity.
I will agree though, some participants in activities are indeed atheletes, even though they don’t participate in a sport. Just like some participants in sports are not actually athletes … for example, kickers. 🙂
*totally hiding under my desk as I figure I’ve pretty much offended everyone in some way with this Amy-viewpoint* 🙂
OK, I’ll go on record and say that racecar drivers are athletes and yes NASCAR is a sport, though many of us would rather see curling than watch several hours of cars going in circles (though if you record a NASCAR race on DVR and replay it at 300x it does have some entertainment value)it does appeal to some people.
I thought “drafting” was the panic process done by passengers of a closed car after someone farted quietly in the same closed space.
As for hockey…you would think that the NHL would remember history and see what happened to professional baseball a few years back with their strike..oh well, for those diehard hockey fans there is always professional hockey in Russia; how do you say “goal” in russian??lol
Anyhoo, the cat looks really pissed..having part of its body shaved and then having a pic taken..it’s looking for the next thing to scratch or propel a hairball at.
Well Amy, I just couldnÓ´ pass up an opportunity to do a little research on how much weigh a NASCAR driver loses during a race. I know you, along with many other of your other followers claim that NASCAR drivers arenÓ´ even athletes. Here are part of an article I found. If anyone out there would like to read the complete article, you can find it on http://www.catchfence.com/html/2002/stooge042902.html.
Just what is an athlete? The Encarta World Dictionary defines “athlete” as somebody who has the necessary abilities to participate in physical exercise, especially in competitive situations such as games, races, and matches. By this definition any race driver is an athlete. The unadvised baseball or football fan will immediately argue, “The driver just sits there and drives. Anybody can do that! The car does all the work.” We can agree that exertion is one factor that all athletes must do to perform their sport.
Your typical NASCAR race lasts 3-4 hours. The driver is performing for all 3-4 hours except for a few 15-second pit stops when he can grab a quick drink of water. There is no sitting on a bench watching his teammates play or standing in the field hoping a ball comes his way. There is no standing around on a sideline or in a huddle waiting for a seven second period of activity. The NASCAR driver climbs in his car and goes through three to four hours straight of physical activity with 2-3 minutes of total rest time during the average pit stops per race. So your average ball player has 7-10 minutes of activity in his three-hour game while the average driver has two hours and 57 minutes of exertion.
I can hear the arguments cropping up right now; “All they do is sit behind a wheel and drive. I can do that for 3 hours. What’s so hard about driving a car?” Before you jump to this conclusion here are a few facts for you.
A cardiologist who had a long career of studying heart stress decided to run tests on six NASCAR drivers during the hottest race of the year, the Southern 500. The doctor and his team hooked up the drivers on portable electrocardiogram scanners, as well as measuring for fluid and weight loss, changes in blood pressure and blood composition, and a few other biochemical tests. The results for those of us who are NASCAR fans were not surprising.
On an average the driver’s heart rates during the race were nearly double their normal rates. Here’s a sample: one driver, at rest- 72 beats per minute; just before the start- 120 bpm; at the start- 136 bpm; during a wreck he witnessed but was not involved in- 146 bpm; at the finish of the race- 174 bpm. Another driver, who was tested at an earlier date, had a heart rate of 214 bpm during a “soft t-bone accident” in which his car was hit on the passenger’s side door.
During that Southern 500 the temperature was 90 degrees, the track temp was 150 and inside the cars the temperature was measured at 135 degrees. The six drivers lost an average of 3.6% of their body weight. That’s a loss of 6 1/2 lbs for a 180 lb man; this in only three hours and forty minutes. Richard Petty, who lost 5.7% (from 192 to 181 lbs.) of his body weight, had to seek a relief driver 2/3 of the way through the race. Also, all of the driver’s blood pressures fell dramatically by the completion of the race.
In-car temperatures were 140 degrees that day and at the conclusion of this 4 hour marathon of extreme temperatures, instead of driving to the garage area to park the car, the driver stopped in our pit area where we were packing up equipment. We had to physically lift him from the car, lay him on a tarp behind the wall on pit road and allow paramedics to administer fluids and oxygen before he was able to stand up on his own. That’s my definition of exertion.
Besides the extreme conditions there is also the physical strain of your body fighting 2 to 2 1/2 G-forces in the corners. A G-force is gravity’s effect on our bodies. One G-force is our normal everyday measurement. For each additional G-force the effect of gravity’s stress on us is equivalent to doubling our weight. So for half the race (the time the car is going through the turns) the driver must fight the G-forces trying to crush him into his seat and making him feel as if he weighs 400 pounds.
We have all, also, felt the effect of taking a turn too fast. We must fight to stay upright as the car’s inertia tries to throw us to the other side of the car. Now picture, if you will, taking that turn four times faster and doing it repeatedly every 20 or 30 seconds for 4 hours. The drivers must literally fight to stay in their seats for two hours of a four-hour race. They get no breaks, no watching their teammate while they stand around or no sitting in a shaded dugout on a bench.
Here are dozens of other reasons that a NASCAR driver is an athlete: the mental strain of avoiding other cars at 190 MPH; the eye, hands and feet dexterity and coordination needed to run the races; even the agility needed to climb into and out of the tight confines needed for safety. But if you just compare the amount of exertion put out by a driver in his four hours of total concentration and physical stress and strain to the 10 minutes of trotting out on a field or swinging at a ball by an “outfielder” you can only draw one conclusion. If those ball players are athletes then NASCAR drivers are much more the athletes.
As the doctor concluded after examining the results of his tests, “Race drivers are Supermen. If you don’t believe me, dress yourself from head to toe in a wool suit, put on a driving helmet, and, on the hottest day of the year, drive with your foot to the floor from Rocky Mount, NC to Philadelphia, PA and see how you feel.”
Then ask yourself again, “Is a NASCAR driver an athlete?” I know the answer.
I will admit … for being the size that Shaft is … he’s the fastest guy around … I haven’t quite figured out how the physics work that allow his legs to move his body that fast … but he does have Tasmanian Devil type world wind speed.
Don’t worry, I can take the abuse! Big cats and big people – it’s all good.
You mean Shaft drives NASCAR and plays hockey?
😉
I’m sure Shaft and Troop Leader already know what I’m going to say …
But doesn’t that Cat sort of look like a goalie ?
(In the old days, I’d have said The Cat also looks like a Nascar driver, however, Shaft is always quick to mention David Wells as exemplitive of an out of shape baseball player and Troop Leader starts citing stats about how much weight a Nascar driver loses during the course of a race … so I’ll just let that one slide. :))
Where are the cat NASCAR posters and hockey memorabilia?