Garth Brooks At COTA Formula 1 Race Sucks Balls

Apparently Garth Brooks is going to be headlining the entertainment card Formula One US Grand Prix at COTA. What a freaking mistake this is. Obviously, I am not a fan of the overly hyped and seriously strange personality known as Garth Brooks, Chris Gaines, or whatever personality he goes by today. Look, I am not hating on the guy personally, but this whole thing is a freaking joke. I get it that the promoters want to be cool and they want something that connects the larger F1 world to the local community and culture. Garth Brooks is not it. Whoever made this call should be fired and banned from ever working in promotions and marketing again. It proves that the decisions about this stuff are made by out of touch college educated folks without any common sense.

The Disconnect

Garth Brooks has NOTHING remotely close to do with Texas. He is from nearby Oklahoma, but that is about where it stops. For God’s sake, this is the same guy who popularized plastic looking cowboy hats, brush popper shirts, and poppy seed country. The promoters could have gone a hundred different routes, but a fake personality who is equally as likely to drive into the venue in a Ferrari with pyro and Picasso’s is equally as likely to swing on on a rope swing wearing a banana holder thong. There is nothing more disconnecting that they could have done. But I get where their thought process came from.

Asses In The Seats

They’ve got to get asses in the seats. Racing and race fans come secondary anymore and that is a fact. This is how it works in this modern Americanized world. The sport is an afterthought and the actual fans are too. Sure, he will bring a few fake asses to the grandstands, but that is where it will stop. These are the same people who will not know Max Verstappen from Roger Penske. These are the same people who just bounce around from festival to festival trying to act-not-their-age and ruin the experience for everyone else. Trust me, Garth Brooks and the asses in the seats that he will drag along with him are sure to not have one interest at all about anything more than trying to disconnect themselves from their mid-life identity. Like him, his fans cannot handle the fact that they are not 25 anymore.

Who Else Then?

For F***’s sake, almost anyone. I said in the podcast that this is like inviting Elton John to Sturgis. I meant it. You could have had tried to land George Strait, Gary Clark, Jr., Willie Nelson, or Lil Flip. Hell, I don’t care. Garth Brooks is not it. This was the lazy and uneducated choice that belongs back in Vegas headlining shows at cheap casinos for cheap thrill seeking holiday ramblers and gamblers. The possibilities are endless and disgust for whoever did this is crap is even more shi**y. It is time that someone reels these Liberty Media folks back to reality.

My Final Word On It

Stupidity. Nobody gives a crap about Garth Brooks and these “I’m-not-45” fans are not the audience that we want. Middle-aged redneck bros and hoes on their third marriage trying to act 25 again. It is what it is. This is just all the more reason for me to watch the race and leave. What sucks is that my ticket price will go towards paying the bill for the mid-life crisis thrill seekers. That part I am not ok with. This sounds too NASCAR-ish to me and I don’t like it one bit. Give me something real.