The Catch Can
By Rick Eckart

TOP 10 THINGS FUN FACTS ABOUT THE CHASE
Tuesday September 18, 2007

10. If you finish in twelfth place, you win a date with reality-TV star Flavor Flav, who is mentally twelve.

9. Five points are awarded to the first team that gets New Hampshire International Speedway owner Bob Bahre to deny he is selling the track. Five additional points area awarded to the team that gets him to deny it the most times.

8. Red Bull driver Brian Vickers thought they'd get in because Red Bull has a lot of experience as a "chaser".

7. Most fans want to keep calling Joe Nemechek "Front Row Joe", because even though he's not on the front row of the race, he's on the front row of the courtroom.

6. Jeff Gordon will get his 500th start, and fans will celebrate by throwing 500 beer cans at his car.

5. If Robert Yates announces he's going into a partnership with your organization, that's pretty much the "kiss-of-death" for that project.

4. Are you serious? People are trying to figure out where David Reutimann is going?

3. New England Patriots were fined for excessive use of a video camera in the NFL; when are they gonna get Michael Waltrip for that in NASCAR?

2. Since Rick Hendrick's, Joe Gibbs' and Richard Childress' Chevy's are expected to dominate the Chase, they were considering renaming it the "Chevy Chase", if the name's not already taken.

…and the #1 fun fact about the Chase…

1. It offers a nice distraction from the most important thing in NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt Jr's new sponsor and number.