There’s an old saying – Mess with the bull, you get the horns

Yes, fans, drivers, crew chiefs and owners – that has been one of the oldest saying’s among drivers since we began.  And Brad Keselowski is finding it out this season that when you mess with Carl Edwards you do get the big horns.  Saturday night’s race in Gateway provided a prime example that some drivers just don’t take anything off of these young drivers that like to rub fenders with them.

Earlier this season, Edwards showed that he would not be taking anything off of young Brad Keselowski anymore.  People forgot that it was last April when the young driver sent Edwards airborne at Talladega and into the fence.  Wow.  It’s amazing how people can forget that a driver can do it to someone else but it can’t happen to them and them take it?  Yeah it sounds like this situation altogether, seriously.  It just seems as if the driver from Michigan can wreck people, yet it can’t happen to him?

There are just some drivers that don’t take being pushed.  Carl Edwards – is one of them.

“The way it went, he bumped me and he finished wherever he finished and I still won the race,” Edwards said. “That’s the only way I could see the race turning out fair.”

“That’s my job, to win the race, and to make sure I don’t get walked on or get something taken away from me that’s mine,” he said. “I’m sure tempers are up right now, but hopefully after looking at it we can each step in the other’s shoes and see it from the other perspective.”

Fact is Keselowski did mess with the wrong bull.  And those that don’t like what the result was, well it happened and it has happened before.  Dale Earnhardt took out Terry Labonte at Bristol in both the 1995 and 1998 races at Bristol, he took out Rusty Wallace and Darrell Waltrip numerous times.  But yes, how does time make people forget how one of the sports most legendary drivers raced.   Also are we forgetting that NASCAR wanted more rivalries at the beginning of the season?  And told the boys “have at it!”

This is a very dangerous sport that we watch and our drivers are in.  When you step into the car, you have to remember there are risks, and I think that the entire Keselowski family is forgetting that.   This is hardcore racing, and its bringing a fiery rivalry back into the sport that it needed to bring back ratings.  While a lot think it was wrong, I don’t.  And I have to tell those that argue it, I won’t back off on my opinion because I think what happened was right.  The young driver has been asking for it, and needs learn to take things like a man and not have his father take up for him.  NASCAR already has told one driver’s father to back out and let his boy stand up for himself. Tom Logano had the same problem and now maybe the elder Keselowski will get it as well.

It’s just time for Brad to remember – Mess with the Bull, Get the Horns.