Oh, how winning can do so many things to a man. Why must you conflict us, Mr. Victory? With your great feeling and wonderful accomplishment.
You can make you feel things we've never felt before. You can make us believe things that we probably wouldn’t believe. And of course, you make us say things that we may or may not say otherwise.
You see, when things are going well, one is on top of the world, dancing on cloud nine, laughing, smiling and enjoying their success.
However, when things are going bad then a whole new side emerges. The one that gets nasty, ugly, frustrated, and insulting. The one that not only makes the headlines, but makes every journalist's job for a couple days as they all try to be the one to break and complete the story.
Yes, Mr. Victory, you can certainly do many things to a man.
NASCAR’s Kyle Busch and the NFL’s Terrell Owens have been the headline makers for their respective teams in 2008.
Kyle Busch found boat loads of success in 2008 when he joined Joe Gibbs Racing. It took four races, at Atlanta in March, to find victory lane. After that he kept winning and winning and winning. By season's end in November, he had 21 wins between all three of NASCAR’s top Series.
But it wasn’t the winning that Kyle encountered problems with. It was when he started to take on the fans that things went downhill. He was viewed as having a cocky and arrogant attitude, and every time he won, he loved to egg on the fans with the celebrations he thought of.
He would bow; put his hand to his ear encouraging them to make noise and many more. During the pre-race introductions, he was always booed (his mother was even booed at Darlington) and he smiled about it and even stuck his tongue out at fans.
You never knew what he might say when giving interviews, but you almost always knew how we would react and what he was going to say if and when he lost.
He lashed out at everyone and everything around him and never took blame for a mistake or problem that might have occurred.
When involved in a wreck with a teammate during a Nationwide Series race, Busch told the TV viewers that “I just have a teammate who can’t stand to be No. 2,” almost insinuating that he is the No. 1 driver and everyone else should follow him.
When later asked if he thought his teammate had been racing him too hard, Busch replied, “Duh.”
Although it’s fair to say that by the end of the season, it appeared that Busch had matured and clammed down just a little bit. Maybe it was because he was no longer contending for a championship, his ego was batted down.
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