If Jeff Gordon is going to be a successful broadcaster in NASCAR, he must grow thick skin.
And fast.
Because there are going to be attacks and criticism and charges of playing favorites. And of a conflict of interest.
Why?
Because, in one sense, what Jeff Gordon is doing in the Fox broadcast booth is exactly that — a huge conflict of interest.
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Gordon encountered his first attack Sunday at Pocono when Brad Keselowski accused him of being biased in his analysis of Keselowski's penalty for unapproved body modifications.