Darrell Waltrip's "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity" to continue

Posted by DarthDilbert at 1/16/2008 02:04:00 PM

And so begins another year of muting the first few minutes of the races on Fox. It was fun the first few times he did it, but it grew increasingly tiresome over the last seven years. A recent public sign of frustration I saw was last summer when on Speed's Trackside program as well as the Fox broadcast of the race when he was hawking a dozen different ringtones of him saying it for only $6 per month. Excuse me while I contain my enthusiasm and grab all twelve.

In his column at Fox Sports on Friday he included a poll in which he allowed the public to vote whether or not he was to continue "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity". When I looked at the poll results Friday afternoon, those voting "No" led the vote with 86%. This was before the alleged "dirty tricks" he claims took place. The first comment that the poll wasn't going as DW hoped it would was at 12:28AM EST early Saturday morning.

Previously, Tom Higgins over at That's Racin' wrote about this a few weeks ago on 26 December 2007 when he suggested resolutions for figures involved in NASCAR: "I, Darrell Waltrip, hereby resolve to drop the tired, lame, annoying "Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let's go racin' , boys!" intro at the start of races my network is telecasting in favor of something more professional. (Imagine the classy pro, Jim Nance, opening NFL telecasts with "Bammity, bammity, bammity! Let's go slobber-knockin', boys!" and you get an idea of how silly Waltrip sounds)."

USA Today's Michael Hiestand wrote that "the vote was running overwhelmingly for dropping the catchphrase until Sunday, when the site said it was "experiencing some, ahem, technical difficulties." By phone Sunday, Fox's [Sports Chairman David] Hill said Waltrip won't drop the phrase "because I've got a bigger vote than anybody else." Hiestand wasn't the only person who linked to the poll. There were many others who directed people to head over to FoxSports. Are they all guilty of "dirty tricks"?

The bigger question is why did he bother to allow people to vote if he intended all along to keep it? Wouldn't that be defined as a "dirty trick"?

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