INDIANAPOLIS – Most fans associate kissing the bricks with the Indianapolis 500. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThey didn't want to borrow another victory tradition, so Parrott pitched an idea of their own: kissing the Yard of Bricks. The Yard of Bricks is the 36-inch strip of original bricks that marks the start-finish line at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThirty years after Jarrett and Parrott first kissed the Yard of Bricks, their spontaneous celebration has become one of IMS's defining traditions. This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: How NASCAR started kissing the bricks tradition at IMS