1978 Atlanta 500

[@TheNASCARJeff]

I remember the days we had to suffer thru golf, cliff diving, bowling, billiards and weight lifting with NASCAR speckled thru just to see the last five laps of a race. Why ABC thought having Jackie Stewart and later Bobby Unser as "experts" for NASCAR races I will never know.

[@julian23631]

TheNASCARJeff You forgot to mention Lumberjack log rolling and tree trunk chopping.

[@noezrider6361]

So true, and I painfully waited for it to come back on with a update. I was around 10 years old and couldn't get enough that Purolator Mercury. I became a Pearson fan because everyone I knew pulled for Petty, and my name was David. I watch these ol' races and hang on to every word, unlike today's NASCAR that I finally quit paying too much attention to.

[@gary24fan]

Hey now, I'm offended you didn't mention the National Cow Chip Tossing Championships. :-)

[@MrChristopherHaas]

It got worse commentator wise. SamPosey?

[@pinedelgado4743]

I actually thought that Sir Jackie added a nice touch to the proceedings. It kinda gave ABC's coverage of NASCAR events an international sparkle even if he had no NASCAR experience. I also think Bobby had raced in a number of NASCAR races, as well.

[@gary24fan]

Al Michaels getting Ronnie Thomas' name wrong, right off the bat. He was still two years away from his famous hockey call.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

All these ABC announcers on WWOS were thrown into all kinds of different “sports” that they were expected to sound like experts on. I don’t fault them for making errors. They were all a bunch or workhorses.

[@gary24fan]

@@Mark-sj3xb Totally agree, but it seems they put more effort into the traditional "stick and ball" sports than they did racing.

[@nascage]

Reminds me of Pocono, minus the triangular configuration.

[@DanArnets1492]

POINTS STANDINGS BEFORE the 1978 ATLANTA 500: · Benny Parsons (695 with 1 win, Chevrolet) · Cale Yarborough (-51, Oldsmobile) · Dave Marcis (-109) · Bobby Allison (-117 with 1 win, Ford) · Neil Bonnett (-160, Dodge) · Richard Childress (-179, Chevrolet) · Dick Brooks (-183, Ford) · Buddy Arrington (-194, Dodge) · Darrell Waltrip 12th (Chevrolet), Richard Petty 13th (Dodge), David Pearson 16th (1 win and skipped 1 race, Mercury) and Cecil Gordon 17th (Chevrolet)

[@thewarwagon5649]

Don't MESS with the man in a Gran Torino! ;-)

[@thewarwagon5649]

Bless his heart, that Dodge Magnum was a DOG Magnum; Petty had to switch to a Chebby, to finish the season. :-(

[@Slinger43]

Right! What a hunk of junk that damn MagNUMB was 👎🤮 Chrysler ( some 45yrs later ) should still be ashamed for handing Petty such a POS car, especially since King Richard was personally responsible for selling thousands of car's for them 😒

[@Slinger43]

If you bleed Petty Blue like me, let me tell ya that 78 season was ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL to suffer through 🤢 To go from so many year's of watching Ol' King Richard win so many race's in a car that even old DW admitted was the coolest looking race car ever, only to have Chrysler hand RP the ugliest car EVER was, well BRUTAL! 😭 With that said, if Richard didn't run 2nd, it was alway's great to see Bobby & Bud standing in Victory Lane 😎👍

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Yet another ABC nascar race that starts filming once everything had developed race wise and the entire field had been lapped. Happened way too many times at Atlanta.

[@thomashallman5436]

when nascar meant somethin now it does not mean a damn thing since the death of earnhardt this brain dead sport has been dead ever since thanks nascar