"Hi, I'm Bud Grant, retired coach
of the Minnesota Vikings.
"Throughout my playing and coaching career, stretching
back a lot of years, I've always hunted. Ducks are my favorite.
But I love all gamebirds, from geese to grouse and woodcock to
quail. And I've always hunted over a Labrador retriever.
"I've had some great dogs in my time. In fact, many times
I've applied some of the same principles I used as a coach to
evaluate professional athletes to evaluating my dogs. Athleticism.
Intelligence. Temperament. Willingness to learn. All of these
are important in any retriever that accompanies me into the field."
"Joining me in my keen interest in retrievers is
Dennis Anderson. I've known Dennis for more than 20
years, first in his role as an award-winning outdoor writer
and conservationist. Then, over time, as an innovator. Dennis,
for example, was the primary founder of Pheasants Forever,
a group he first organized in 1982 through his newspaper column.
Then in 1988, he wrote a year-long series of stories about
our disappearing ducks, and organized—again through his
column—a $650,000 fund drive to purchase a helicopter
for federal waterfowl enforcement officers in the Southern
Mississippi Flyway.
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