Maybe I was smoking crack, but does anyone else recall (I believe it was) Larry Csonka doing an episode up in Alaska, hunting buffalo (American Bison) on a buffalo ranch? I thought that set a new low in outdoor shows. They had this buffalo all but staked and tethered. They set up this ridiculous "stalk" (they knew exactly where the animal was and I think I remember they drove their ATVs to a place just short of it, but then went through the meaningless exercise of huffing and puffing their way on foot over some terrain)and shot the thing with a lot of touchy, feely drivel about shooting it. That was the sorryest excuse for a hunting show I've ever seen. As far as I can tell, there was no sport to it. It was nothing more than target practice using a live animal. I guess that's what they raise the things for, but there was nothing edifying in the whole show.

Funny you brought up the Eddy Shack thing. I just saw him in an episonde on Friday night on OLN. They were fishing Walleye and Lake Trout and that was pathetic. After reading that article on the host poaching, it's even more pathetic because I can just imagine how that whole deal was a faked. I'm sorry, but Mr. Shack's laugh is unbearable and he was laughing at everything. My buddy and I watched only out of amazement that anything that annoying made it on the air.