BOSTON -- With the next presidential election months away and the candidates all but locked in, it may be too late for Carl Edwards to throw his hat in the ring for this year, but there's still hope for 2020.
After all, it does run in the family.
Edwards revealed Tuesday during a historic visit to the Massachusetts capital that he's related to our nation's 19th president.
"Rutherford B. Hayes is somehow my great, great, great grandfather," Edwards said Tuesday at the USS Constitution Museum. "It's funny, my first tour of the White House, we were walking in … they have that room where they have things displayed from all of the different presidents and I walked by it and somebody pointed out (his photo) and said, 'Hey, look, he's ugly, too.' … So yeah, that's that."
We'll admit ol' Rutherford wasn't much of a looker, but did have a pretty gnarly beard.
Either way, it's a pretty neat piece of history that the Joe Gibbs Racing driver could someday share with the next president after he or she is elected in November -- assuming he's able to lock up his first career Sprint Cup Series championship a few weeks later atHomestead-Miami Speedway and gets the presidential invite.
