There used to be a time when NASCAR was fun. It was down and dirty good ol’ boys out racing cars just for the fun of it. Before Fox and ESPN came along and made it all about the money, most races were not televised. In the 1970s, one of the big three networks would occasionally show a race - usually one of the big ones like Daytona - but only select coverage condensed down in time.
On February 18, 1979, everything changed. CBS presented the first flag-to-flag coverage of a race in the Daytona 500.