Meet
The Idiot Sportsmen
The
Early Years
The First Fishing Trips
Fish in the Boat--Finally
Chuck Gets a Boat
A Nest of Starlings and the Great Tuna Carnage
Silver Spring, Maryland -- Northwood High School Class of '64. It was an orderly time in America, before Vietnam and drugs and the sexual revolution. The patient cameraman spent three hours getting things the way he wanted them for the class picture ("Sit up straight, hands in your laps...") and everyone was very cooperative. It was an orderly class in an orderly time. "Okay everyone, here we go... hands in your laps... Smile... (click)... (click)... Good!! Thank you all very much. You've been very cooperative."
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High School Class of '64 (detail). Future Idiot Sportsmen Mark Levy, Bart Marshall and Chuck Bunce, not quite gutsy enough to actually give the camera the finger, nevertheless find a way to finish out their high school years the way they spent them--by being disorderly and uncooperative. From the very beginning there was, it seems, attitude. (Truth in Publishing Disclosure: 1964 was Mark's first annual senior class picture. Class pictures from Mark's subsequent senior years not shown.) |
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Tucson, Arizona, 1977. Chuck and Mark travel west for Bart's wedding, at which, still rocky from the previous night's excesses, Bart repeatedly flubs his lines in church. The preacher says "close enough," and declares the ceremony legal anyway. In 1982 Bart moves back east to North Carolina and the three amigos, who have each independently arrived at the conclusion that neither the NBA nor the pro tennis circuit is in their future, take up fishing. |
