{"id":7378,"date":"2011-04-12T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T00:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/04\/12\/theres-a-good-reason-were-the-last-of-a-dying-breed\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T01:18:13","slug":"theres-a-good-reason-were-the-last-of-a-dying-breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2011\/04\/12\/theres-a-good-reason-were-the-last-of-a-dying-breed\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a good reason we’re the last of a dying breed"},"content":{"rendered":"

With reality TV<\/strong> performing\u00a0introductions of the couch-bound\u00a0to the great outdoors via cracked crab and icy trawlers, or featuring some suicidal dimwit paragliding into inhospitable terrain and doing without Twinkies for a week, I think we\u2019re all a bit tired of network TV\u2019s insistence that the out-of-doors is only for crazed adrenalin junkies and the idle nitwit that gets lost and runs out of gas.<\/p>\n

\"Outdoorsmen\"<\/p>\n

\u2026 and when the magazines wade in with the \u201cwho\u2019s the bestest\u201d competition<\/a>, they\u2019ll opt for making it family-fare, suitable for prime time \u2013 and in so doing eliminate all the real outdoorsmen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called the \u201cTotal Outdoorsman\u201d Challenge for a reason. We\u2019re not interested in finding the hunter who can shoot the tightest groups, or the angler who can catch the biggest bass in the lake. We want the outdoorsman who can do both. And then some. Like cast a fly rod into a stiff wind. Or thread an arrow into a tight spot. Or bust clays with a side-by-side. Or maneuver an ATV in the mud. Can you do all of this\u2026under pressure? If you can, then we\u2019ve got a $25,000 check with your name on it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All you\u2019re going to get watching some fat-arse roar through a forest floor on an ATV, is some fellow that isn\u2019t capable of humping his dinner up the canyon, can\u2019t cook the sumbitch once he gets there, and likely couldn\u2019t get a fire lit if he was issued a couple of waterproof matches.<\/p>\n

Them guys use drive-thru, mostly scratching their head and pointing at the pretty pictures \u2026<\/p>\n

Real outdoors contests should include; how many days can you wear the same tee shirt without bathing, how many beers can you drink yet still cross a creek on a log, how many times can you blow daylight through a fleeing forest animal as it dashes through the parking lot, can you double the size of your fish with a straight face, do you carry single malt or blended, and which kind of leaves should be avoided when wiping your arse below the high water mark \u2026<\/p>\n

Those SOB\u2019s are outdoorsmen.<\/p>\n

The last thing I need is a gaggle of fly fishermen \u2013 or some equally effete rich SOB that breaks clay with a couple thousand worth of finely engraved over and under, or some dandy that insists on getting bow tags -when steel belted radials work all year \u2026<\/p>\n

If I\u2019m going up to the piney woods, I\u2019m going with the crowd that appreciates it. I’m tired of telling the ATV guy that he has to pack his bottles and cans out …<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Field and stream<\/a>, outdoorsman contest<\/a>, reality TV<\/a>, outdoors myth<\/a>, fly fishing humor<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With reality TV performing\u00a0introductions of the couch-bound\u00a0to the great outdoors via cracked crab and icy trawlers, or featuring some suicidal dimwit paragliding into inhospitable terrain and doing without Twinkies for a week, I think we\u2019re all a bit tired of network TV\u2019s insistence that the out-of-doors is only for crazed adrenalin junkies and the idle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-fishing-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}