内容摘要：“Make Sure You Die Screaming” is exceptionally well timed for the increasingly strange world we find ourselves in.

“Make Sure You Die Screaming” is exceptionally well timed for the increasingly strange world we find ourselves in.

so many others in the colorful, estimated crowd of 350,000 for the largest single-day sporting event in the world.With more than a dozen planes carrying advertising banners above Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Goodyear blimp also there, the sounds and smells of the track wafted through an infield full of

that seemed every bit as popular as the driver T-shirts that typically dot Pagoda Plaza.And why not? This is May and this is Indiana where auto racing and basketball aren’t just popular. They’re a way of life.“It’s so ingrained in this town, this state since 1909, 1911,” Pettijohn said rattling off the dates of the 2.5-mile oval Brickyard completion and the first IndyCar race was held there.

and it holds a very near and dear place in my heart with me and my family. Basketball, too. It’s just an emotional, special time.”Sports fans in Indiana understand because race day is a kind of pilgrimage that binds the generations together. Many families spend dozens of years sitting or standing in the same location and dress for the occasion in racing garb, a vastly scaled down version of the colorful hats and fancy dresses and suits found at the Kentucky Derby each May.

Those who can’t attend usually listen to the radio broadcast because the network telecast normally blacked out and re-aired in full race night allowing those who went in person to get back home and watch it all over again.

It’s a tradition so revered that when fans weren’t allowed to attend in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, speedway president Doug Boles offered a special dispensation to keep their streaks of consecutive races intact — if they watched or listened to the race.“It’s a cruel irony that the Bears’ Ironman succumbed to this dreaded disease,”

. “Yet Steve showed us throughout his struggle that his real strength was internal, and he demonstrated on a daily basis his class, his dignity and his humanity. He is at peace now. We offer our condolences to Misty, (daughter) Macy, the rest of Steve’s family, his teammates, and countless friends and fans of a great Bear.”Pro Football Hall of Fame president and CEO Jim Porter said in a statement: “Steve McMichael told everyone he would fight ALS with the same tenacity he showed for 15 seasons in the National Football League. And he did just that. Everyone who played with or against Steve shares the same opinion: No one battled longer or harder from the snap until the whistle than Steve the player.”

Soon after his career ended, McMichael got involved with wrestling.In April 1995, he was in Lawrence Taylor’s corner at the WWF’s WrestleMania when the New York Giants great met Bam Bam Bigelow. Later that year, he started with WCW as a commentator.