Dale Earnhardt bigger than Christ

[Doylerulez]

http://www.speedwaymedia.com/Articles/04/030204Northey.asp

Sorry, I'm not a NASCAR fan, but this is a bit much. Someone as popular as Dale was sure to have enough know about him to do a tasteful and fairly accurate movie. I don't think people were offended by who played Christ but how he was portrayed. I haven't seen the Passion, so I can't comment on that yet. I thought the Andy Kaufmann and Ali movies were well done, and not offensive. The movie is meant more to be a tribute than to offend his fans. I respect other peoples opinions, but this seems a bit overboard.

Credit goes to http://www.poesports.com/ a great place for stupid sports news for finding this.

[CaseyRyback]

Can we please give little E some peace and not to make him relive his fathers death every waking moment of his life

[Methane]

Can we please give little E some peace and not to make him relive his fathers death every waking moment of his life

He could always not watch it.

[Mr Unoriginal]

Can we please give little E some peace and not to make him relive his fathers death every waking moment of his life

He could always not watch it.

Damn you and your infernal logic!

[SteveMcQ]

Is this Barry Pepper the guy that played the bad-ass sniper in Saving Private Ryan?

[bmulligan]

What a stupid idea for a movie. hopefully, there will be a good letter writing campain to get espn to chuck this movie like CBS trashcanned the Ronald Reagan movie. This man doesn't need a movie to be a testiment of his life, his 7 winston cup championships are his legacy. Hundreds of races and interviews can show us all he was about, or at least all we really need to know. I could care less about anything else. I personally loved to hate this man, but I respected him greatly. I respected him enough to NOT watch this piece of garbage that ESPN wants to sell a lot of advertisements for.

ESPN sucks dog doo-doo for producing this. Thank you Disney for continuing the tactless tradition of television and bastardizing a legendary story for a quick buck. Now Dale earnhardt can be among the other twisted views of history produced by the fantasy freaks at Disney like pocohontis, hercules, pinoccio, alice in wonderland, king arthur, Hunchback of notre dame, tarzan, and all other retellings of classic stories and real people they have disgraced.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr]

Is this Barry Pepper the guy that played the bad-ass sniper in Saving Private Ryan? Also played Roger Maris in the HBO movie 61

[GameDude]

What's wrong with ESPN making money? It's not like Dale Earnheart did many things not for money. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it's silly for people to worship someone who drives a car or swings a bat.

[bmulligan]

hw also played the lead opposite travolta in Battlefield Earth.

[CaseyRyback]

if anyone here watched the Daytona 500. He got told that Dale Earnhardt won it 6 years to the day he did probably 300 times.

give the kid a break. If any of your family died would you want to see it every time you turn on TV or have it mentioned every time you won a race?

And yes he could not watch, but he will get asked about it a hundred times.

[bfg9k]

Is this Barry Pepper the guy that played the bad-ass sniper in Saving Private Ryan? Also played Roger Maris in the HBO movie 61

He also played "Jonnie Goodboy Tyler" in the horrible movie "Battlefield Earth" :twisted:

[bmulligan]

What's wrong with ESPN making money? It's not like Dale Earnheart did many things not for money. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it's silly for people to worship someone who drives a car or swings a bat.

nothing's wrong with them trying to make money. Everyone's entitled to make money. Just like everyone's entitled to form an opinion on whether it's a good idea to make such a movie. What's wrong, IMO, is that they're trying to squeeze him like a sponge for a show that's totally unnecessary to purport his "story".

Dale Earnhardt was many things to many people. Like I said before, I don't worship him, nor did I ever like him as a driver. But I respect his accomplishments and historical record which was broadcast 30 sundays a year for 30 years.

[Theenternal]

On a sidenote, here in florida we got a bunch of Mcfarlane Race Action figures in walmart. And I remember seeing Dale on the shelves when they first came out thinking.. ."i wonder how long that will stay here" They've been sold out for months.

[LV-426RS]

I've got one of those figures. Not the mass market walmart ones but a collectible. McFarlane Toys makes the best figures I have ever seen.

On the movie, Dale was my favorite driver. I admired his accomplishments on the track as well as off the track. He worked his ass off building his empire and it payed off. I would hate to see a movie made about his life. Documentaries are O.K., but a movie just doesn't seem right to me.

[Spiritseed]

When you say "bigger than christ" do you mean taller or wider? And do you have any proof of this?

[bmulligan]

Yeah, last I checked, Mel Gibson made a 'real' move about the christ. Earnhardt only gets the cheapass ESPN made-for-TV movie of the week.

Frankly, I don't think Jesus could have driven a Chevy at 180 mph making left turns for 3 hours on Sunday, regardless of whether god was his co-pilot or not.