PHOENIX, AZ — November 6, 1999: Although he finished second to Jeff Gordon in the Outback Steakhouse 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (L) and his dad Dale Earnhardt (R) had plenty of reason to celebrate, as the younger Earnhardt clinched the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series championship even though there was still one race to run the following week at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
PHOENIX, AZ — November 6, 1999: Although he finished second to Jeff Gordon in the Outback Steakhouse 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (L) and his dad Dale Earnhardt (R) had plenty of reason to celebrate, as the younger Earnhardt clinched the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series championship even though there was still one race to run the following week at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
PHOENIX, AZ — November 6, 1999: Although he finished second to Jeff Gordon in the Outback Steakhouse 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (L) and his dad Dale Earnhardt (R) had plenty of reason to celebrate, as the younger Earnhardt clinched the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series championship even though there was still one race to run the following week at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
PHOENIX, AZ — November 6, 1999: Although he finished second to Jeff Gordon in the Outback Steakhouse 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (L) and his dad Dale Earnhardt (R) had plenty of reason to celebrate, as the younger Earnhardt clinched the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series championship even though there was still one race to run the following week at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)
NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr recently revealed one of the “Craziest” things he did during his childhood days. Further mentioning how he never let his father know about what he did.
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Earnhardt Jr mentioned, “The craziest thing I got away with was probably mailbox baseball.”
“That’s bad and he would have destroyed me, if he knew!”
He added, “The one thing that turned me away from doing that was I had this S-10 with a sliding glass backdoor, and we hit this plastic barn-looking mailbox. And part of it came and gave me a welt on the neck.”
“We also missed the box one time and knocked a big dent into the truck, so I was like ‘alright enough of that.'”
As admitted by Earnhardt Jr himself, he and his dad “didn’t do a lot of hanging out” since the senior Earnhardt would always be busy with races. The two only started to bond better with each other after Earnhardt Jr. started racing himself.
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During the same podcast, Earnhardt Jr reveals an interesting story of how his father, the legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Sr, once tackled a guy and broke his forearm from trespassing onto his property and killing an animal that he liked.
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Earnhardt Jr said, “A guy was working on the tractor, during the day on dad’s property, fixing a big tractor and he saw some deer, went to the bar later that afternoon happy hour drinking with a buddy of his, telling his buddy about the deer.”
“The more they drank the braver they got. They decided they were going to come back to dad’s property at dark, around dark jump the fence, and shoot one of the deer right?”
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He then adds, “Dad and his farm manager guy are walking the powerline and they’re in the tree line. Just happened to be there on that day and they heard a gunshot and they saw the deer run down the powerline and fall down.”
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“So they hid in the tree line and waited for those guys to come up to the deer. When they got to the deer, dad just ran after the won with the gun. He tackled the guy and broke his hand on his face.”
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He went on to say that the only reason why the senior Earnhardt stopped punching the guy was that he recognized the guy’s voice. After that, Earnhardt Sr. held the man until the cops arrived at the scene.
Apparently, Earnhardt Sr liked to watch deer and bucks roam free on his property, and that incident made him quite angry.
