This is my only caveat with anything you said. It isn't that you can drink beer while watching it that makes me discredit stock car racing as being on the same level as other pro sports. It is that you HAVE to drink beer to watch it or 6 hours of guys driving around a circle will make you kill something. NASCAR is mindnumbingly boring without alcohol. I don't feel that way about any other "sport" and I include tennis, golf, etc. in that.