Washington Post Columnist Calls For The End Of Racing

I love sports, and thus enjoy reading the opinions of most sports columnists.

I’d say “all” sports columnists instead of “most,” but there’s just one problem with that: Every once in awhile, I come across opinions so ignorant and uninformed that they deserve their own special place in the spotlight.

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Norman Chad of the Washington Post.

You may know Chad as an ESPN poker “analyst,” a job in which he contributes cheesy jokes to the broadcast and somehow gets paid for it. That’s a topic for another day.

In his spare time, Chad apparently enjoys writing about real sports. And wishing some would no longer exist.

Chad, in an epically bad column, is calling for the end of all auto racing.

“It’s time we...recognize auto racing as obsolete and end the around-the-oval madness,” Chad writes.

Oh yeah. And there’s more.

Chad’s reasoning is NASCAR, which he calls “so last century,” leaves a terrible carbon footprint and is an environmental “serial killer.”

He goes on to say that “auto racing wastes hundreds of thousands of gallons of precious fossil fuel” and contributes to global warming.

But according to NASCAR’s numbers, the entire Sprint Cup Series uses roughly 135,000 gallons of fuel per year while the U.S. Energy Information Administration says Americans burn 362 million gallons of fuel per day.

What’s next? Will Chad criticize hockey for wasting precious water by filling up ice rinks all over the country? Or will he rip baseball for using chemical fertilizers to make the fields greener?

As if the mass amounts of power used by casinos for the poker tournaments at which Chad commentates is somehow more environmentally friendly.

Chad has a tongue-in-cheek style, but if he’s trying to be funny here, he failed. He concludes by saying of auto racing, “It’s time to put it in park.”

The same could probably be said for his column.