The Daytona 500 is set for Sunday as the official kick start to the NASCAR season. It is easily the biggest race on the schedule, despite not being worth as many points as the last 10 races of the year known as the Chase.

Still, it has never made sense to me to have you sports’ biggest event, in this case the Daytona 500, held at the beginning of the season. Could you imagine the Super Bowl being played in September or the World Series in April? I’ll tell you what, why not play March Madness in October?

While the Chase for the Cup is likely the best route to go and clearly it’s tough to compare the other sports that have playoff formats, I still think they should move the Daytona 500 to the end of the schedule.

One of the things that football and baseball don't do well is you have that preseason junk. Not many people watch preseason and then you go from preseason into games that count. It's like it's no real big deal. In NASCAR the Daytona 500 is in your face right off the bat. I think that has an appealing factor. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t make sense to me, but I still enjoy it.

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