On Friday, while discussing the most dominant athletes in sports, Donovan McNabb said NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson wasnt an athlete. ‘He sits in a car and he drives’ McNabb told Fox Sports. ‘Thats not athletic. What athletically is he doing?” McNabb went on to rank Johnson third on his all-time list, behind Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant. On Sunday night – after winning his sixth NASCAR championship in 8 years – Johnson addressed the situation in a Fox Sports interview. ‘Yes, I am an athlete, and so is every other driver in one of these race cars’ said Johnson. ‘Even Tony Stewart.” The Stewart reference was, of course, a joke. But Johnson found nothing funny about McNabbs comments. ‘I think it came from an uneducated frame of mind because he hasnt been to a race’ Johnson said. ‘I did find it interesting that if Im not athletic Im still third on his list. So evidently I fall into athleticism somewhere.”( Philadelphia Daily News )
