Here's a big idea that could put the IRL back on the map like it was in the 90s.

NBA is probably the most popular sport in America, but there probably won't be any NBA this year possibly. The solution to this is easy: IRL needs to run a special winter racing series.

Hear me out.

You run indoor 3/4-midget races inside all the basketball rinks that NBA teams play at with all the current stars of the IRL. Each race you get the home team's best player to drive a 3/4-midget and start last and if he can win the race, he and everyone in attendance will split a $10,000,000 prize. Wouldn't that be something.

Now, it gets better. We'll show these races on the television on the channels and timeslots the NBA had! We're cooking with gas now.

You can have a half-time show where the fans get to meet the drivers and after the half you send them back out to run the track the other way so it's right turns only. Now that's a challenge and will shake it up.

You then say "you thought that was cool, well these same drivers will be racing even faster cars even closer all across the country and the world this spring/summer/fall. You better watch for it." And then you show them like a video clip you know those TV screens in the middle well you show them a clip of like Sam Hornish, Jr. winning Chicago, wow, what a race.

People will be hooked. They say we shouldn't race in NFL season, well, we should race in NBA season, when the NBA doesn't have one!

As a way of saying thanks we could send Justin Wilson to the NBA when it happens again. It's the least we can do because I think this might save the IRL.

That's what I think.