Podcast Episode 3: Guest Ryan Decker
The Behind the Destruction podcast is sponsored by Heavy Metal Performance of Rockdale, Illinois. PODCAST NOTES: I always find it interesting when sportswriters and columnists discuss why they voted for a player or driver as the MVP/D of a given league. Steve Gursky Jr. and I take this opportunity to get into our picks for Most Valuable...
The Good Luck Award
The Good Luck Award: MEAN GREEN MACHINE Call it the luck of the Green. For the second year in a row, Mean Green Machine figure out a way to lose… and still move on to race again. Fourth Night of the season, Mean Green Machine took on Full Throttle in the first round in one...
The Bookend Award
The Bookend Award: RECKONING and FULL THROTTLE First Night of the 2011 season kicked off with Reckoning and Full Throttle facing one another in the finals, one of the teams having upset the pre-season favorites, Orange Crush, in the first round. After a tough battle against Full Throttle third round, Reckoning went on to win...
The Strangest Season Split
The Strangest Season Split: DAMAGE, INC.’s MATT WILSON While pondering the Rookie-of-the-Year award, someone mentioned the name of Damage, Inc’s Matt Wilson. I was considering awarding it to him for a while until I looked at Wilson’s season splits. It was then that I realized that Wilson had completed one of the most unusual seasons...
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award: MATT “OPIE” PIERCE Matt “Opie” Pierce started out the season on Seek-N-Destroy. After one night with them, he went to Bad Company. After two nights with Bad Company, he left the team. By Fifth Night, Pierce was in Mean Green Machines’ pits, sporting a Mean Green Machines T-shirt and...
The Upset of the Year
The Upset of the Year: STRANGLEHOLD defeats ORANGE CRUSH (Third Night) This is purely a numbers award. Stranglehold was in last place the night they faced Orange Crush and Orange Crush was in second place at the time. The two teams met, Stranglehold won and it was the upset of the year.
Podcast Episode 2: Guests Michael Noble and Mel Noble Jr.
The Behind the Destruction podcast is sponsored by Heavy Metal Performance of Rockdale, Illinois. PODCAST NOTES: One of my favorite topics of conversation that Steve Gursky Jr. and I have had is in this podcast. It’s hard to summarize succinctly, but it gets into the psychology of accusing someone of cheating and why it’s easier...
The Best Help Wanted Ad
The Best Help Wanted Ad: JASON TWITE In looking to help bolster his camera crew that shoots the demos, Jason Twite placed a help wanted ad with the following wording: “Looking for the best of the best! Amateur cameramen need for a night of thrills with other men and cars. No breaks allowed.” Now that...
The Mel Noble Jr. Award
The Mel Noble Jr. Award: STRANGLEHOLD’S MEL NOBLE JR. Most people wait a year or two before changing the name of an award—in this case The Crazy of the Year—to something honoring an athlete’s contributions to said award. In this case, I’m not waiting a second to officially change The Crazy of the Year Award...
The Best Race of the Year
The Best Race of the Season: FULL THROTTLE vs. ORANGE CRUSH (First Night) There were a handful of races I could have chosen for my Race of the Season. I enjoyed Full Throttle’s race against Mean Green Machine Fourth Night that both sides could lay claim to winning and I think Bad Company’s race against...
Best Race of the Year, Runner Up
Best Race of the Season, Runner Up: BAD COMPANY vs. RECKONING Fans of the demolition derby, and particularly the team demolition derby, like action. They like fast cars, hard hits and fire. And beer. But mostly they like fast cars and hard hits. First Night’s race between Bad Company and Reckoning delivered this in spades....
The Worst Race of the Year
The Worst Race of the Year: STRANGLEHOLD vs. DAMAGE, INC (Fifth Night) While I could have gone in several different directions with the Best Race of the Season award, there is only one true contender for the Worst Race of the Season; Stranglehold vs. Damage, Inc Fifth Night. It was a race that was so...