Drivers tee off on the boring Talladega parade rules

There was a time when Talladega was the marquee event on the autumn NASCAR schedule, the race where anything could happen and carnage almost always ensued. Remember those times ... way back in, when was it, April? Yeah, those were great days.Backstage secret: the comments where people rant about how NASCAR used to be better in "the good ol' days" (mostly, it wasn't) and how they're "done with NASCAR" (they aren't) usually drive me up the wall. It's usually one notch above kids stomping their feet and asking why they can't have another dessert.This time, though ... this time, the whiners have a point.Just hours before the flag dropped on Sunday's Amp Energy 500, NASCAR drivers were told -- in no uncertain terms -- that there would be no bump-drafting permitted in the corners, that there needed to be "daylight" between the bumpers of cars going into turns. The drivers, livid about the changes, staged their own little protest --...