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With Hanna headed for Richmond, there is a very good chance that race will be shown on ESPN2 on Sunday while the IRL is on ABC.
Seeing as how this is the last "official" season ending race that ESPN/ABC will air for awhile I kinda like the idea of IndyCars going out over the big dogs.
IRL to be on ABC while Cup is on ESPN2?
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That's good, i'm not gonna be watching either though since my favorite NFL team will be on national tv at 4:00 i'm going to be flipping between the Browns game and the Indycar race.
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Beat up on those Cowboys, will ya?
I'll be DVRing the IndyCar race to watch from the end of the 4 p.m. games to the 8:15 game when the Indianapolis Colts begin their march to their second super bowl championship in three years!
I'll be DVRing the IndyCar race to watch from the end of the 4 p.m. games to the 8:15 game when the Indianapolis Colts begin their march to their second super bowl championship in three years!
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I'm just amazed people can still figure out when messages are new on here since this post is 16 hours old?
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Beat up on those Cowboys, will ya?
I'll be DVRing the IndyCar race to watch from the end of the 4 p.m. games to the 8:15 game when the Indianapolis Colts begin their march to their second super bowl championship in three years!
Which of course will be after their loss to my Bears this sunday. Last year I had to flip between the finale between two drivers at the very exciting Chicagoland Speedway and the Bears opener. This year, I get to watch all of both!
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Do the Bears or Colts even play in the NFL? The only team that matters is the Patriots.
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Actually, the Bear and Colts play Sunday nite. That should help alot and next years race is before the NFL season and is a nite race. It looks like Austrailia might be a spring race. They could go from Long Beach to Surfers and then come back right too Indy. If Kansas gets that 2nd cup date I could see the ICS getting shuffled back on their priority list and then you could just drop Kansas altogether after 09.
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Do the Bears or Colts even play in the NFL? The only team that matters is the Patriots.
You know, it's quite obvious that many of us die-hard AOWR fans are going to watch our favorite NFL teams open the season. You'd think the IRL would be trying to schedule the finale AWAY from most of the games (at least next year it should be a night race in Miami)
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Do the Bears or Colts even play in the NFL? The only team that matters is the Patriots.
You know, it's quite obvious that many of us die-hard AOWR fans are going to watch our favorite NFL teams open the season. You'd think the IRL would be trying to schedule the finale AWAY from most of the games (at least next year it should be a night race in Miami)
That's funny Dude. Are you implying rational thought goes into making up the IndyCar schedule???? I'm sure the powers that be feel that OW fans will drop everything, and search out the Chicago race, while ignoring the season opener for their fav NFL teams.
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so what time is the race. I am on DISH network and cannot find it anywhere? PS I am on the west coast.
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Saturday night won't help since there is college f-ball to go against, but at least Versus could do a live race as ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 are in full college mode by then. Can't worry about what the competition is doing because even senior bowling puts a dent in AOW ratings these days. Now on one hand ABC trying to encourage the IRL to end the season before the NFL made sense only IF the IRL would have started the season right after football ends so that fans didn't have a half year gap, and teams didn't have to regularly layoff staff because of the really long offseason. But again, it really matters little if they go against the NFL or not, the IRL just needs to make their product a lot more interesting and a heck of a lot more respectable.
Then there is how Belle Isle's 0.9 TV rating confirms my suspicions that the IRL is back to where they were before the split as CC fans like myself just can't into this product, even though I keep trying. I even stayed for the IRL race at Detroit this year. Last year I did the ALMS race and that was it, couldn't stomach the IRL cars, and frankly I am just getting my appetite back from the Sunday race. I'll become hardcore once again if the IRL's new car not only goes turbo, but is a car that deserves the respect of being a top flight series by making the car far more challenging to drivers' talent than being one that comes down to how deep teams' pockets are. Waiting to 2011 is idiotic though as the split should have taught TG that once you lose fans, it's really hard to get them back, and waiting 3 years maybe far too long to get CC fans like myself back to putting AOW at the top of their sporting interests.
Then there is how Belle Isle's 0.9 TV rating confirms my suspicions that the IRL is back to where they were before the split as CC fans like myself just can't into this product, even though I keep trying. I even stayed for the IRL race at Detroit this year. Last year I did the ALMS race and that was it, couldn't stomach the IRL cars, and frankly I am just getting my appetite back from the Sunday race. I'll become hardcore once again if the IRL's new car not only goes turbo, but is a car that deserves the respect of being a top flight series by making the car far more challenging to drivers' talent than being one that comes down to how deep teams' pockets are. Waiting to 2011 is idiotic though as the split should have taught TG that once you lose fans, it's really hard to get them back, and waiting 3 years maybe far too long to get CC fans like myself back to putting AOW at the top of their sporting interests.
