FISH TALES

Fans in the Stands

I just can’t get my mind wrapped around the fact that sports are not allowing fans in the stands. I checked out a baseball game when they started up and thought how stupid it was to have cardboard cutouts behind home plate to “look” like fans. It didn’t work.

I saw the other day that a football team was being “booed” by canned booing. Yes, not only is there canned cheering but also booing. That’s stupid. At another football game, they had some 5,000 or so people in the stands, and the players were booed there. It does not make any sense to not allow those that want to be at a sporting event to be there. It hurts the bottom line because there are not enough people there to make a dent in the expenses of a team, yet there they are.

I watched the Tour de France this year, and there were people still lining the roads to watch the riders go by, and some at the end of each stage cheering, but at the finale, in Paris, the normal crowds were not lining the streets, but were in viewing stands. Golf, I don’t watch, so I don’t know if there are fans or not.

The only thing I can say for sure is FISHING requires no fans on the water, and they will show up at the weigh in. The reason: fishermen and women are not concerned about the same things as the millionaire athletes and are not babies. Fishermen fish, whether they are sick, hurt, or not. Hook in the arm, no problem, pop it out. Hurt their back running in 6-foot waves, still fishing.

Fisherman are a tough breed.

Mike Brower

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