I will start this post by saying I am not a fan of Kyle Busch.  I do respect the hell out of his talent and his desire to win every race he enters.  There have been many things throughout his career that have rubbed me the wrong way, but his celebration in Nashville this past weekend was not one of them.  In the pre race show from Pocono on TNT, Busch was asked about the controversy surrounding his actions in victory lane.  He replied there was no controversy, and for once I agree with Busch.  For those of you who did not watch the Nationwide race from Nashville, Busch won the race and received the cool Gibson guitar trophy in victory lane.  Busch then smashed the guitar rock’n'roll style.  His reasoning for his actions were that he had made a deal with this team members he would share the trophy with them.  So he smashed it, then said  they boys would cut it up at the shop and each crew member would receive a piece of the guitar.  Cool if you ask me.

What has surprised me more than Busch’s actions, are the members of the media who made a big deal out of this.  I just read an article written by Bruce Martin of Sports Illustrated slamming Busch for his antics.  In the article Martin called him a punk.  Really?  Smashing a guitar to share it with the “guys at the shop” makes someone a punk?  Busch has acted like a punk at times, but this was not one of them.  I actually think it made victory lane a little interesting.  Normally you hear the same words every week from the winner.  At least this was different.