Maurice Jones-Drew
Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew was introduced to NASCAR on Thursday at the preliminaries leading up to Sunday’s Daytona 500 race and quickly fell in love with sport.
Jones-Drew served as the grand marshal for the second race of Thursday’s Gatorade Duels and was so enamored by the site that he is considering getting into the sport.
“I want to be an owner,” he said, per Don Coble of the Florida Times-Union. “I think that would be exciting.”
He wouldn’t be the first man with NFL ties to get into auto racing.
Former NFL lineman are common place on a racing team’s pit crew, while New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss is a team owner in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Most famously, former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs is a very successful team owner at the highest level of the sport… the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series.