I'm a real Mountaineer, Montani semper liberi!
I've got a great Dale Sr story. I live about 3 miles from DEI(Dale Earnhardt Incorporated) and my wife's grandfather's shop is here. He owned a utility company and had several track hoes and knew Dales uncle but was a huge Dale fan. Well Dale put his rubber tire backhoe into a ravine on his property and couldn't get it out. So his uncle Called papa and he had his 600 ton track hoe already loaded so he excitedly agreed to go over 3 Miles right. Well he goes over unloads everything and crawls down the hill and Chains up dales backhoe and gets it out. Now Dale was talking on the phone while he did all that. Once everything was unhooked Dale walked over got on his backhoe and rode off without as much as a thank you. Papa went home and threw away everything he had with Earnhardts name on it and never cheered for him again. He hated all the Earnhardts from that moment till he died. Always makes me laugh to see people talk about how nice he was.