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a little sidelight from football...............
DOVER, Del. - Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach may have five Super Bowl titles between them, but on the high banks for NASCAR's superspeedways, their current competitive arena, they define success as finishing in the middle of the pack.
That's hardly a comment on any loss of competitive fire; rather, it's a comment on the fierce competition in stock-car racing's elite ranks, which the former Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks entered this season as co-owners of Hall of Fame Racing, a Charlotte-based NASCAR team. With 12 of 36 races complete, their No. 96 Chevrolet ranks 31st -- a far cry from the title-contending cars of Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon but ahead of those driven by such notables as Sterling Marlin and Jeremy Mayfield.
They're not shocked by the middling results so far; they were warned by none other than Washington Commanders Coach Joe Gibbs
In an alliance that may strike Commanders fans as bordering on unholy, Joe Gibbs Racing is supplying the engines, racecars and a certain amount of stock-car racing expertise to the Aikman-Staubach enterprise, which is bankrolled by DLP-HDTV, a division of Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc.
The goal, Aikman said, is for Hall of Fame Racing to be self-sufficient in three years, able to race with NASCAR's front-runners under its own power and in its own racecars. Meantime, they're performing respectably, although not as well as they would like, as a "sister team" to the operation founded by their former NFC East arch rival.
a little sidelight from football...............
DOVER, Del. - Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach may have five Super Bowl titles between them, but on the high banks for NASCAR's superspeedways, their current competitive arena, they define success as finishing in the middle of the pack.
That's hardly a comment on any loss of competitive fire; rather, it's a comment on the fierce competition in stock-car racing's elite ranks, which the former Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks entered this season as co-owners of Hall of Fame Racing, a Charlotte-based NASCAR team. With 12 of 36 races complete, their No. 96 Chevrolet ranks 31st -- a far cry from the title-contending cars of Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon but ahead of those driven by such notables as Sterling Marlin and Jeremy Mayfield.
They're not shocked by the middling results so far; they were warned by none other than Washington Commanders Coach Joe Gibbs
In an alliance that may strike Commanders fans as bordering on unholy, Joe Gibbs Racing is supplying the engines, racecars and a certain amount of stock-car racing expertise to the Aikman-Staubach enterprise, which is bankrolled by DLP-HDTV, a division of Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc.
The goal, Aikman said, is for Hall of Fame Racing to be self-sufficient in three years, able to race with NASCAR's front-runners under its own power and in its own racecars. Meantime, they're performing respectably, although not as well as they would like, as a "sister team" to the operation founded by their former NFC East arch rival.