Comments on: ARGABRIGHT: Trying To Digest Some Heartbreaking News

By: Gil Fidler

Gil Fidler — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:35:51 +0000

I been getting NSSN since 1965 it is a hard to believe it won’t in my mail box any more.

By: WilliamC Shunk

WilliamC Shunk — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:43:25 +0000

Dave, It is truly heartbreaking news. It is change and the unknown future. As with my favorite race in May, I listened on radio, then I watched on closed circuit TV in the Sports Arena, I attended in person and watched, then I watched and listened on the radio station, followed by a headset to hear multiple play by play feeds, a headset listening to my favorites teams in real time, and soon I am sure I will blog to 300,000 of my closest friends during the race over WiFi through my I Phone. We will all have an empty feeling each week at the mailbox. I wish the Economaki family and employees of NSSN all the best. Your knowledge and passion for motorsports will surely carry you to new and rewarding opportunities. Hold your head up high for all of the good you have provided to the sport we love so much.
Will Shunk, Sylvania, OH

By: Andrew Sturgess

Andrew Sturgess — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:55:49 +0000

In difficult times like these the bible is the best place to turn for solace. I’m reminded of the words of Abraham when told to sacrifice his son and he responded “WTF!?”
This was subsequently cleaned up for publication but it expresses how I feel now on hearing this devastating news. I feel like more than one family member has died. The loss of the grumpy old grandpa’s that got their letters to the editor published is bad enough, but there were some talented reporters that I will truly miss.
Good luck to all the staff and thanks for all the memories. I never failed to learn something reading your paper from cover to cover each week.

By: Roxy Dancy

Roxy Dancy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:41 +0000

My dad was an IMCA stock car driver in the ’50s so I grew up with NSSN. Really! My handwriting was so bad ins school, my dad would make me copy, by hand, Chris’ column every week. Racing stayed in my blood and I have very legible handwriting still today. I have subscribed for over 30 years (I am 60) and I will feel the loss.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:17:06 +0000

I consider this a black day in auto racing. I bought my first issue in the summer of 1961 at a race track at age 12. I then took a subscription in 1963 which I still have to this day ( 48 consecutive years) . I did kind of see this coming, as more and more race tracks have stopped advertising in the print media, which is a big mistake considering only about 49 to 51 % of the U.S. population own computers. And, the younger generation of race fans want all their info right now ( again- the computer age ). I still like hard copy of news, and I’m really going to miss NSSN. My sincere thanks to the Economaki family for bringing me countless hours of enjoyment for the 50 years since I bought my first issue. Joseph Darmofal, Sylvania, Ohio.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:19:02 +0000

Dave Argabright was one of the reasons I used to subscribe. Chris’s weekly column was a must read. The bulk of the writers seemd to understand what Chris wanted. No fluff, ask real questions, dig for what others miss. Dont play the same game the mainstream plays. Somehow, I noticed that in recent years that I was reading the same thing in NSSN that was published or posted everywhere. Seems all the writer got lazy, and not lazy in terms of getting out there, but moving away from what I believe Chris did all the time. Get a real story, not the PR persons printed responses. Get emotion and alternative lines from drivers. I was a subscriber for the 90′s and into Y2K. I later re-upped and started getting the paper again, being bored with reading the same tripe in every other rag out there, and what did I find, the same story, nothing different. NSSN became what it never was. …the same as the rest. I emailed the paper, I was answered by someone other than Corrine or Chris…his name now escapes my memory, but his message didnt.
The message was pretty much…you have your opinion, were doing our job. Well, the boat is sunk. I am sorry to see the paper go, but if it was carried on as Chris built it to be, this wouldnt have happened. I’ll stop here, No need to say I told you so.
I wish those who are losing their place luck, if everyone is staying to privide online news, you had better figure out a way to get different in depth stories that other fail to achieve or the webites days are numbered as well.
Good Luck

By: Sandeep Banerjee

Sandeep Banerjee — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:25:50 +0000

I really wish it was possible for NSSN to continue on as a digital publication only. After all, doesn’t printing and distribution make up the major costs? Anyway, it’s really sad that such a legendary run has to end. Hope it revives somehow sometime. Good luck to all who contributed to it and made it what it is.

By: Larry Janicsek

Larry Janicsek — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:43:30 +0000

Dave, As usual great thoughts and comments from you concerning a very sad, tough subject. I was always disappointed ( fortunately only a few weeks a year) when my NSSN arrived a day later than normal. Now it’s hard to believe I’ll only receive one more issue. We’re not only losing the greatest ever Newspaper covering Motorsports, but we’re also going to probably lose some wonderful relationships with many of the great writers and “shooters” that contributed to NSSN. Sure we’ll see some of them at tracks but it just won’t seem the same not seeing their carefully chosen words or photos in print. Thanks to you for the great columns you’ve crafted for NSSN. I’m sure glad your book with and about Chris E. was released in his lifetime and before the closing of NSSN. Larry Janicsek

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:11:15 +0000

They say change is inevitable…..but it seems it is rarely good. It is a sad day and the absence of NSSN will leave us all greatly diminished.