Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
I have actually wondered from time to time, why our most highly praised sporting writers tend to be stumbling drunks

It is a hallowed American tradition, since yore.

I have no idea whether British field&stream&shooting writers were not also alcoholics, barely functional ones maybe, but they did not create a self-inflated blustering cult around it.
It probably started with Hemingway.

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