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Think what JJ and the No. 48 are doing is nothing special? Think again

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Saturday, November 15, 2008

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Lombardi's Packers. Maybe that's the closest analogy in other sports to Jimmie Johnson's imminent Sprint Cup three-peat. Yes, Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers, 1965-67. That will seem like apples-to-kumquats at best, sacrilege at worst, to the stick-and-ball crowd that despises NASCAR so. But this is not about the specific type of sport -- endeavor, then, if you refuse to call NASCAR a sport. This is about relentless human spirit, sheer talent at anything, and the di ...

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