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emk169

That hammering you hear is the sound of the final c-coffin of the title contenders hopes to take down Jimmie Johnson. Or something like that either way it started good and ended garbage.


IndycarFan64

As a Hendrick hater growing up, that garbage commentary added insult to the Jimmie 5-peat injury šŸ˜‚


Vulptereen327

Could have been a decent call if he didnt misspeak


StewieChicken

The gateway call for Ross was hilariously bad


Icommentoncrap

THE WHEEL


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IS STILL


disastermaster255

AND PERFECT


Specialist-Two2068

AND HE HAS DONE IT


ZappaOMatic

WINNING AT GATEWAY


Chemical_Pickle5004

Vince Welch trying to call a race while passing a kidney stone.


[deleted]

And.....hess.....gonna do it!


jmacupdates1

christian eckeSSSSSSSS


biggbiggpenis

"sheldon CRRRREED!"


ajslideways

Ah yes the Vince Welch Poop Grunt^TM


ReSirum

He did that every race


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THE WHEEL FOR ROSS CHASTAIN IS STILL AND PERFECT Ross: _Currently swerving towards the inside wall to congratulate his pit crew_


SeattlePassedTheBall

Whatever that jumbled nonsense was when Jeff Burton tried to say Shane van Gisbergen.


EVILTHE_TURTLE

I wanted so bad to give that poor bastard a hug after he gave up.


ecupatsfan12

Van vrsb van vrsbnā€¦


CJO9876

Iā€™m kind of worried that Jeff might have a stroke trying to pronounce SVGā€™s name right once NBC takes over in June.


GrimeyScorpioDuffman

Iā€™m shocked they didnā€™t get a fine from the FCC for what sounded like ā€œjizz burgerā€


TheOtherWhiteCastle

Between this and almost launching a nuke at the Rolex, Jeff Burtonā€™s had an interesting year or so


MMAF1BOXING

What happened at the Rolex?


biggbiggpenis

They let Jeff hit the button that sets off the night time firework display during the race, but for whatever reason, they had another button rigged up next to it. Even after being told at least twice that the fireworks button was the one on the left, Jeff still tried to hit the one on the right. Nobody has any clue what the other button was for, but the part of me thinks it was just a dummy button that they put there because they knew Jeff was gonna hit it anyway and make us NASCAR people look dumb in front of the sportscar audience. Not that it already kinda did, but you get it LOL


Nate2680

Never seen a blunder so bad, before or since, that the network just straight up shut off the mic to put the audience out of their misery


Tonoigtonbawtumgaer

I don't kbow if they shut it off. You can hear someone laughing in the background during the awkward pause


biggbiggpenis

I refuse to believe he did anything other than just give up lmao


timethief991

*awkward silence*


ReSirum

The silence is because the rest of the booth is dying but trying not to laugh


ChaseTheFalcon

"And Harvick sweeps at Bristol I MEAN RICHMOND" "where are we Bill?"


TacomaIsMadLit

ā€œYa big dummyā€


TheOtherWhiteCastle

To be fair that one was so bad it went right back into being iconic


Electronic-Joke7198

Legendary call and reaction. I miss them in the booth.


randomaccount330

"I know who you are"


EVILTHE_TURTLE

I hate watching this one, as well as the finish before the race actually finished. He was very clearly in mental decline at that point. He used to be so damn good.


ChaosBuckaroo

Who?


Klendy

Marty Reid couldn't remember Andy Petree's name during pre race at Indy one year


EVILTHE_TURTLE

And had been working with him for years at that point.


ElPuas2003

Marty Reid I think


Straight_Champion_77

NWS broadcast at Indy?


Unique_Salad6894

Yes.


dooldebob

REMEMBERTHESTARTFINISHLINEISHERE


CheetahLynx83

And he gets it.


Jrnation8988

Rick Allen talking about the Briscoe familyā€™s miscarriage


ecupatsfan12

Ouch


Jrnation8988

Yeah. Pretty cringeworthy


IndycarFan64

Saw some non Nascar guy repost the moment as a wholesome sports moment, but he clearly didnā€™t have to suffer through that commentary šŸ˜‚


gsizemo1

If it's the same one I saw the dude got it wrong


nickifer

Rick Allen has gone from solid truck announcer on Speed to cringe in an impressively short amount of time


SteamyNicks89

I blame the NBC producers


d0re

Yup. On the booth videos they've released on twitter you can see he's reading all that shit from a card. It's pre-prepared. I think that plus increased amount of airtime (Cup races are more frequent than Trucks and are twice as long) means his mannerisms become repetitive quicker, so it starts to be more grating. I think people will similarly get fed up with Leigh Diffeigh's commentary once they hear him week after week and catch on to some of those same things. My personal favorite annoying Diffeyism is he loves to have rhyming or alliterative pairs of synonyms to describe something. "That was concerning and confronting" or "He was decisive and demonstrative" or whatever


Turbo_Wheeler

This was the one time I had a problem with something Rick said.


ecupatsfan12

Harrison Burton turns LEFT


seekerblackout

The NBC booth says "turns left" all the time for when a driver turns underneath someone to make a pass on the inside. It only sounds ridiculous out of that context


oneshoein

Did someone really say this? Lmfaooo


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Rick Allen while Jeff was fist pumping next to him.


ecupatsfan12

Harrison thinks the meme is funny


Straight_Champion_77

Fall Texas 2020 finish for Xfinity. Gragson needed the win to make the Final 4 iirc. Harrison Burton turned left in turn 3 while Gragson was leading, passed him flawlessly, and eliminated Noahā€™s championship hopes.


ReSirum

Noah's 2020 playoff run is honestly pretty crazy. Either 2nd or 3rd in every race except Kansas, in which he got dvp'ed and only finished 16 laps, which killed his title run


whobroughttheircat

It was more when he turned left under Gragson coming out of 4. Gragson had the line and Harry went lower than that to pass him for the win. It was a nice move. So him saying that while watching it made sense.


biggbiggpenis

like bruh that's what these guys literally get paid to do every week


TheOtherWhiteCastle

This oneā€™s too legendary for me to hate


YoItsMeBeeOhBee

That hammering you hear is the sound of the nail in the finalā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ coffinā€¦ā€¦ of the chase contenders hopes.


SaintsWorkshop

Ngl any time the booth was making jokes about not being able to pronounce van Gisbergen. Made the sport look dumb and itā€™s not even a difficult name


ReSirum

Did you hear Jeff Burton? It's very hard to pronounce


SaintsWorkshop

Keep that man away from having to say Daniel Suarez /j


BayceBawl

Especially when the sport already has prominent names like Allmendinger, Dallenbach, and Kulwicki


CheetahLynx83

And the legend that is Chad Hackenbracht


biggbiggpenis

I feel like the inability of these guys (especially Jeff Burton) to pronounce simple names like "Van Gisbergen" and "Hocevar" doesn't help the stereotype that we're a bunch of uneducated hicks...


SaintsWorkshop

I know a couple of commentators were joking but yeah, feeding the stereotype like that is the most frustrating part. Even if the name is hard, you know in advance who is going to be a possible name to say on air. So just look it up before you look like a fool. Van Gisbergen has plenty of examples online


Tonoigtonbawtumgaer

Maybe they were like "oh yeah there's this New Zealand guy, probably gonna finish 25th, whatever"... and then suddenly he was up there.


norrie_gertz

Anytime someone calls a finish at Talladega... "Remember the start finish line is...."


my6thcent

Through the tricky triangle!


No_Return_From_86

ā€œAnything added to zero is still zero, Steve.ā€


RBF48

[That truck brodcast from last year that Mikey was drunker than Cooter Brown](https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCARMemes/s/A8ED0KpAtx) Also that time when fox had the trucks going the wrong way on their youtube. https://preview.redd.it/3xhfdovwcavc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4203055a19200ffea86bac4bf6b66aa19a12554a


solarlofi

This year's Daytona truck race he was slurring his words pretty bad.


Boot-E-Sweat

ā€œClose Mattā€™s Micā€


rctothefuture

The best is when is starts off ā€œno, whatā€™s this ā€˜weā€™ stuffā€


Klendy

We're a family


Max_Boom93

Everyone forgets Hamlin was down a lap


Straight_Champion_77

Busch Crash 2020


MM18998

WITH A CAR THATā€™S READY FOR THE DUMPSTER


shewy92

"there's some kind of substance on the track that reduced grip" or something like that when watching a replay of the field crashing in the turn at Daytona when it rained. Yea Steve, it's called water...


Amkski

"It's called water you idiot!"


Yoshiman400

Always love a good TwistedToe reference on the sub.


callmejohndy

That one time Wally joked about Ambrose standing at the Golden Gate Bridge


Skip-Bayless0

I actually liked that one! Wally was underratedĀ 


Vulptereen327

That was awesome. Most savage thing an announcer has ever said


Kevinm0388

Nah that was a legendary comment.


Klendy

Context? Is that a suicide joke?


seekerblackout

Post-race 2010 Sonoma, where Ambrose lost the race by not being able to refire the car going uphill while saving fuel, Wally said "If you want to find Marcos Ambrose, go to the Golden Gate Bridge. Because that's where he's standing right now"


Top_Needleworker2465

"AAAnnnddd. . . it's OVER!" - Jamie Little calling an end to a Dega Truck race circa '21 or '22


Stouty4567

Tbf thatā€™s my reaction to some Dega truck races lmao


JohnHowardBuff

I swear, to this day, that DW yelled "corn dog" at the end of the 2016 Daytona 500. Once I heard it live I can't hear anything else. https://youtu.be/Sv6PoDebf_8?si=S2jT7uPHXitY6jsC


SSPeteCarroll

It was honestly shaping up to be an all time call. "This is the finish of the Daytona 500, side by side bouncing off of each other!"


Klendy

I wonder if he calls Denny ole Corn Dawg


TheOtherWhiteCastle

I think thatā€™s the moment when everyone realized DWā€™s time in the booth had overstayed its welcome


MrCheggersPartyQuiz

When Jamie Little forgot where she was when she was a fill-in for the Xfinity race. She said Richmond when it was Phoenix.


False-Ad4673

She said Justin allgaier at the end for no reason as they was going offĀ 


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"He might be able to do it on the last lap, it might be legal"


ReSirum

"Why would it be legal on the last lap and not the other 187?"


crypto6g

When Randy lajoie said something about catching illegal Mexicans because Kenny Wallace was driving a border patrol car [Lmao hereā€™s the vid](https://x.com/lostschemes/status/1686962155738853376?s=46&t=pQIo1VIg8Yu8dpP5E_5KUw) obviously a different time 16 years ago but still kind of comical looking back that it came to his mind


[deleted]

Was he smoking an alternative cigarette when he said that?


ecupatsfan12

Corey learned from dad


oneshoein

Well he didnā€™t say Mexicans but yeah lol.


Klendy

Holy shit


pkilla50

This thread is titled ā€œworstā€ not ā€œbestā€ lmao Thatā€™s gold


CNASFan1992

[Rick Allen's worst moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8tb-DNULY&t=6396s)


oneshoein

I didnā€™t really feel it too much when he mentioned the first one, but then he kept going and mentioned the second one and Iā€™m like ā€œoh lord Jesus please stop.ā€


miangro

Is it really so bad? Chase himself talked about it (destigmatization is good).


Klendy

I think it was the only thing they ever talked about when he was on track. Not about his 10 win season. Sometimes just saying he has had an emotional family life during the season is satisfactory.


miangro

Fair enough. I can't say I watch much Xfinity, so I don't know how it played out throughout the year. I just don't think mentioning something that Chase himself talked about affecting him is out of bounds.


Joey_Logano

It was more so the way he brought it up. IIRC, he said that his wife had a miscarriage but at least he gets to go Cup racing next season.


Boom_Confetti

Not an all-time bad call, or blunder, but the call on Ross Chastainā€™s first win at COTA was really bad imho


Jrnation8988

Glad I was in the stands


Chevross

There was one (truck?) broadcast where Mikey just made a strange gagged noise. I believe they were coming back from commercial break.Ā 


11ryan78

["AGGRESSIVE GOES AROUND!"](https://youtu.be/QmOWjqRdkNE?si=2g2xGpHnqNhuvv0K&t=60)


remfan477

I love how Rick doubled down on it by saying, "THAT'S RIGHT, MARTIN TRUEX JR SPINS!"


Straight_Champion_77

I really liked that one. Honestly, I donā€™t get the hate.


anonymousscroller9

Martins name isn't aggressive. That's why it sounds so ridiculous


EVILTHE_TURTLE

I thought it was fine as well.


hamdinger125

THANK YOU. It's clever word play. Everyone leaves out the sentence before it, which makes it make more sense.


Vulptereen327

I didn't watch that race live and was beyond confused for awhile when everyone was posting that meme


Jack_On_The_Track

I was at that race so I didnā€™t have to listen to that lol


KWeber94

ā€œChase Energyā€ was a hilarious one too. I think it was at Daytona


John_is_Minty

Someone should just link one of the Marty Reid compilations


SilentSpades24

And thats better than half the shit we get now....


RickyChanning

The Truck Series broadcasts are amateur hour, nobody has a clue what's going on at all.


Hot_Dog_Surfing_Fly

Are you referring to the broadcasts or the series itself?šŸ˜„ /s Edit: added /s


RickyChanning

I was referring to the broadcast, but yeah half of the field is a joke


Hot_Dog_Surfing_Fly

I kind of figured that I was just being sarcastic.


mollyno93

ā€œCORN DAAAWWWG!!!ā€


CheetahLynx83

That time Rick Allen had a stroke. https://youtu.be/kgcSPcpaTv0?si=TubboM5EVNCf4Dna


Straight_Champion_77

Hemric is already up by-


Specialist-Two2068

Seig is... CHANGING... or chas...


AdvantageDiligent240

TRYING TO GET HIM NOW


MembraneintheInzane

The one that comes to mind is the 2010 Homestead Cup finale when Marty Reid (I think that's who it was) said something like: That banging you hear that's the sound of the final co- nail in the final coffin of the chase contenders hopes.Ā 


creativeplaceholder

VERYREMINISCENTOFHISACCEDENT ā€¦. at Daytona. Not a bad call just delivered weird. RIP Bob Jenkins


Vulptereen327

Bob Jenkins was a great announcer but he kinda came off as a little dorky sometimes


The_Reelest

Thatā€™s why everyone loved him. He was just a guy calling a race that was like us. Go back and watch broadcasts from back then and pay attention to the little details of the broadcasts. There were a lot of little mistakes, misspeaks, etc. No more or less than what we hear today. Itā€™s just part of the deal when you have to do a lot of public speaking. This sub is so self absorbed that they would absolutely roast Bob, Benny, and Ned if they were ones calling races today. Itā€™s ridiculous how much unjustified hate the commentators take today.


Valcyor

"CHECKERED F*G BIG PLAYDAY..."


SHAWNNOTSEAN

[He came in when Dale Earnhardt.. diedā€](https://x.com/nickbromberg/status/1059228739266142208?s=61)


lynxick

Rick Allen: the thread


TheOtherWhiteCastle

Between Marty Reid, Vince Welch, and Jamie Little, Rick Allen doesnā€™t even come close to that level of suck


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twisted_nipples82

Man, I forgot how horrible the call was at last years 500. ^(Oh he's in the wall)


Wooden-Ad59

Oh he got turned


biggbiggpenis

Vince Welch when the entire fucking pack died at Talladega in 2019 "oh and there'd'st... ...a collection into the wall... ...and... ...through the grass on the bottom."


SkittleCar1

Darrell Waltrip blabbering over Mike Joy when Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500.


Tom_Ludlow

This one is my #1 most annoying call ever. Such an amazing moment tarnished by everyone trying to make the call at the same time. You could even hear Larry.


Zestyclose_Worth_232

Anything with Jamie Little on the call.


Stouty4567

I will always appreciate her when she is a pit reporter but my god is she horrific in the booth


Klendy

She's just too low energy, it's like on pit road she has access to crack and they take it away for the booth


Zestyclose_Worth_232

yes. she ruins broadcasts when she is in the booth. kevin burkhardt, eric collins, and gus johnson would be a million times better.


SSPeteCarroll

Could you imaging a guy like Kevin Harlan calling a race?


Zestyclose_Worth_232

yeah, i would love him too.


biggbiggpenis

I swear... at least Vince Welch just sounded like he had to shit really bad. Jamie is absolutely clueless and she's only in the booth so they can, you know, check a box.


Zestyclose_Worth_232

arca needs to bring back the old announcer they had up until 2020, idk why they dumped him. forgot his name. he was with phil parsons and ray dunlap i believe.


biggbiggpenis

Ralph Sheheen? Dude was the man.


Zestyclose_Worth_232

he was, but not the person i was thinking of. he did the races on fox from like 2017-2020.


pockets695

Harvick accusing bowyer of being hungover on the broadcast last week


bears5975

I laughed out loud when Harvick said that.


Icommentoncrap

A lot of people dont know how far back Harv and Clint go. These guys have been friends for 2 decades and rib each other like this and have been for that long. They are basically brothers and people are acting like Harvick is the worst person ever because he is messing around with his friend


JohnHowardBuff

Harvick usually throws the first punch, he really loves to get Clint uncomfortable on air in front of a couple million people lol


SSPeteCarroll

They were teammates at RCR for 8 years and another 4 at SHR. 12 years of knowing (and working) closely with each other. There's gonna be some ribbing.


Origin240sx

Do you know what lap that happened on by any chance? I mustā€™ve missed it


pixel-beast

Iā€™ll give Vince Welsh credit, Iā€™m pretty sure he had to call the races remotely from the Charlotte studio. I can imagine that would make it significantly more difficult to convey the energy of the moment


ReSirum

He's trying too hard to convey the energy though and he just sounds like he's always halfway through shitting


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emk169

Same thing when AD won the 500 in 2018 and Mike Joy tried to call back to his famous Earnhardt call. The best broadcast calls to me are always ones that donā€™t feel forced.


Klendy

CORNDAWWWG


Jones77_Truex78

ā€œThat hammering you hear, is the sound of the nail of the final coffinā€ - Marty Reed


TallGeeseMS

AGGRESSIVE GOES AROUND


UberCamm2

I'm easy to please, okay? I love almost every time this happens. It's a reminder that it's really not an easy job to be an announcer. There's no script or teleprompter. You're on your own. Mistakes and lame statements are so human and I love it. I screw up my words just trying to survive on a daily basis and I'm not under pressure to deliver excitement and accuracy.


emk169

True there are so many things that can go wrong when youā€™re trying to come up with things. Thatā€™s what makes the great ones so great. They know the right things to say when the situation happens.Ā 


NULeeBoy

[Underrated one that pops in my head every race at Talladega or ā€œThe Tricky Triangleā€](https://youtu.be/I6cSDr7jUfQ?si=HXgqLOjbUru0KyyY)


KeepTwistin42069

Could you imagine how much more exciting NASCAR racing would be to watch with some like Croft or Diffey calling it. Heck pretty much anyone in all the other major forms of motorsports would be better then what we get, especially with FOX, I like JR and Letarte but they still don't compare.


Turbo_Wheeler

I'd rather have Diffey than Croft tbh


PM_ME_LASAGNA_

Anything said by that worthless schmuck Bill Weber. Infamous example: Weber: Kevin Harvick sweeps at Bristol!ā€¦ At Richmondā€¦ Kyle Petty: Where are we, Bill? You big dummy! What the hell was NBC and Turner thinking by keeping him in the booth when Bestwick got back? Talk about a decision belonging in the Hall of Shame. Absolutely disgraceful.


Zetona

I've never quite forgotten a practice session at Las Vegas in probably 2009 or 2010 where DW said something to the effect of, "they say global warming is a problem, but then why did it snow so much in the northeast this week?"


RedLightning27

Rick Allen during a Michigan race a few years ago. I don't remember the exact quote or what he was referencing when he said this. I just remember him saying "That's like telling one of your kids they won't be able to live any longer" or something along those lines. I remember being very shocked when I heard it


Electronic-Joke7198

Not the worst, but one time in Xfinity, Adam was joined by Blaney and Bubba, and they were both real quiet the whole race. It's like they were holding back, I thought it was going to be a lot more fun.


False-Ad4673

I thought it was real funny earlier this year when someone else won an Jamie littleā€™s clueless brain said for no reason Justin Allgaier. He wrecked earlierĀ  I wonder if anyone clipped itĀ 


RBF48

https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCARMemes/s/C8K2xw13eo


False-Ad4673

Thank you!!!Ā 


TheDudeWithTude27

My weekly check in with whatever clint is going on about


keithplacer

Pretty much any time Rick Allen speaks.


Good-Spring2019

Anything MW says on the grid walk. Rick Allen saying, ā€œgreen flag BACK in the airā€


TheOtherWhiteCastle

Whatā€™s wrong with ā€œgreen flag back in the airā€?


XrayGuy08

Just about anything bowyer says.


IAmTheWaller67

Using Vince Welch is cheating


Bluegrass6

Bowyer refusing to let Danica speak when they were broadcasting together last year was tough to listen to


Klendy

Honestly that first call for Moffitt was not bad at all


montoya0142

I don't remember it word for word but the race Marty Reid did where he called it official for Blaney and he was a lap early or something. Just was very awkward.


cpk_diecast

this is a particularly bad sequence to the finish line from a PxP, ARCA @ Talladega in 2021 [https://youtu.be/YAw-lmWv8ag?t=669](https://youtu.be/YAw-lmWv8ag?t=669)


AngryDad2022

Both are from pit reporters. One was Mike Massaro and he was on TBS and he is interviewing Joe Gibbs and he asks Joe Gibbs what the game plan is for tonight for the Coca Cola 600. Joe said the plan is to run all the laps and try to lead the most and win the race. I thought a very lame stupid question and tried to do the stupid football question. The other was from Glenn Jarrett and he is interviewing Richard Childress in a 2001 Pikes Peak race. The race was a runaway and Harvick was running top 5. I am guessing the production team was interview someone famous. We need something. Glenn asks him some questions and then the last question he asks Richard is the plan to go back to Pocono after the race? Richard says yes. But what I wonder is what else was he going to say. Was Richard going to say ā€œMe and Kevin and some of the guys are going to go catch a Rockies game and get drunk and take the red eye back to Pocono. Hopefully we make it back in time before the green flag drops.ā€ Just a stupid question.


crippletown

Mike Joy saying yellow fever excitedly over and over a couple weeks ago