{"id":12388,"date":"2014-03-23T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2014-03-23T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:11:03","slug":"donovan-mcnabb-attends-race-sits-with-jimmie-johnsons-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/23\/donovan-mcnabb-attends-race-sits-with-jimmie-johnsons-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan McNabb attends race, sits with Jimmie Johnson’s team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb questioned whether or not NASCAR drivers are athletes.<\/p>\n

Speaking about Jimmie Johnson, McNabb questioned the atheism in NASCAR. ”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sits in a car and he drives,\u201d McNabb told Fox Sports. \u201cThat\u2019s not athletic. What athletically is he doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

To which Johnson replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I am an athlete, and so is every other driver in one of these race cars,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cEven Tony Stewart.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, it was McNabb who was at Auto Club Speedway in the pitbox of Johnson’s team.<\/p>\n

Have McNabb and Johnson buried the hatchet? … or is this simply FOX soothing over the comments of one of its anchors with a sport which has yielded it high weekend ratings for the past decade?<\/p>\n

Here is one fans photo of Johnson and McNabb chatting prior to Sunday’s running of the Auto Club 400.<\/p>\n

Before #AutoClub400<\/a> driver intros, @JimmieJohnson<\/a> chats with @FOXSports1<\/a> Donovan McNabb. pic.twitter.com\/8ibB920oC4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lucas Revert (@Lucas_Revert) March 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb questioned whether or not NASCAR drivers are athletes. Speaking about Jimmie Johnson, McNabb questioned the atheism in NASCAR. ” \u201cHe sits in a car and he drives,\u201d McNabb told Fox Sports. \u201cThat\u2019s not athletic. What athletically is he doing?\u201d To which Johnson replied: \u201cYes, I am an athlete, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}