http://www.metafilter.com/tags/seafair Posts tagged with 'seafair' at MetaFilter. Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:00:12 -0800 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:00:12 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/53604/We%2Dwere%2Dthe%2Dgladiators%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dsport%2Dand%2Dwe%2Dlost%2Da%2Dlot%2Dof%2Dguys%2Dalong%2Dthe%2Dway <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/motorsports/280191_hydros05.html">"It is doubtful that the popular sport in Seattle can survive,"</a> wrote a Seattle sportswriter in 1966, after three of unlimited hydroplane racing's most popular drivers were killed in one horrific day in Washington, D.C. Forty years later, what was <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2001/0722/cover.html">once the most popular sport in Seattle</a> survives, if not thrives, and <a href="http://www.seafair.com/hydroplane.asp">this weekend's Chevrolet Cup</a> will feature boats with safety improvements that trace directly back to the events of "<a href="http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0225.html">Black Sunday</a>". But it's nothing like it used to be in the 60s and 70s, when <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2003171468_hydros03.html">"winning a hydro race was about the biggest thing a Seattle kid could do," </a> and everyone in town, knew names like the boats <a href="http://www.missbardahl.com/">Miss</a> <a href="http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0169.html">Bardahl</a>, <a href="http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0246.html">Miss Budweiser</a>, and the drivers <a href="http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0040.html">Bill Muncey</a>, <a href="http://www.mshf.com/index.htm?/hof/hanauer_chip.htm">Chip Hanauer</a>, and <a href="http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0289.html">Dean Chenoweth</a> -- and no one, but no one would miss the <a href="http://www.progcovers.com/hydro/seattle.html">Seafair hydro races</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53604 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:00:12 -0800 hydroplanes hydroracing motorsports pacificnorthwest seafair seattle sports litlnemo