Road Swing Quotes

“Dad looked me in the eye before embarking on any business trip and said, man-to-man, “I’m counting on you to hold down the fort.” Though I may have only been eight years old, I would take the charge seriously and was proud that not once - in all the years my father traveled - did Apaches overrun our two-and-a-half-bath Colonial on 96th Street and shoot my mom full of arrows.”
― Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into The Soul Of America's Sports

“Monster trucking - big trucks driving over small cars - reproduce on a grand scale the sound a beer can makes when collapsing against one’s forehead. And is there any sound in life more satisfying than that?”
― Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into The Soul Of America's Sports

“Elvis and the Babe died on the same day - August 16 - twenty-nine years apart, prompting the minor-league St. Paul Saints to honor both men with a promotion called “Two Dead Fat Guys Night.”
― Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into The Soul Of America's Sports

“At its creation in 1956, the federal interstate highway system was pitched as a speedy way to flee urban centers in the event of an atomic attack. Bostonians still drive as if they are doing just that.”
― Steve Rushin, Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into The Soul Of America's Sports