Just CPT trying to recoup Rusty's appearance fee. Its just the way it works.

However, there's no way I'm paying 100 dollars to meet a celebrity of any stripe. Not unless I'm paying them to teach me something.

(For those wondering what we're talking about, there's an option to be a part of a special private VIP meet and greet with Rusty Wallace that goes for about an hour before his public appearance at the show. The cost for that honor is 100 dollars even.)

I'l pay $200 not to meet him...... 😉

Understand that its nothing against Rusty. I just have an issue with the whole idea of it. The reason these guys are famous because they were marketable to regular shmoes like us. We made them.

Now we have to pay to be in their presence? Not for me thanks. I'd rather sit and have a beer with Kirk Hooker. Im sure it would be much more entertaining.

One year at Michigan my cousin, who is a HUGE Rusty fan, waited in line at a souvenir booth for 2.5 hours to get Rusty's autograph. By the time he got to the front of the line Rusty was sooo drunk from Miller Lites that his signature looked like a Dr's prescription scrawl. Needless to say he was a bit disappointed. The next year he couldn't get to Michigan so I told him if I saw Rusty I'd try to get a better autograph for him. Well I'm on 3-wide's side of the Rusty fence so there was no way I was going to stand in line so I picked up one of his 8.5 x 11 promo cards and signed it myself  ;D It wasn't too bad either. Everytime I saw my cousin I'd look at the "Rusty" autograph and snicker. After a couple years of this I started to feel a little guilty so I fessed up. Little rough there for a while but we laugh about it now.