Strength, speed, endurance, skill, discipline, training, practice, physical fitness...Well, if standing up to pee after drinking a dozen beers counts...Otherwise, none of the guys I fish with would claim to be atheletes.

Red Necks?

Maybe.

LMAO...That's good.  ;D

Strength, speed, endurance, skill, discipline, training, practice, physical fitness...Well, if standing up to pee after drinking a dozen beers counts...Otherwise, none of the guys I fish with would claim to be atheletes.

Red Necks?

Maybe.

What's this MAYBE crap? How about ABSOLUTELY!  ;D I get a little red around the neck area after drinking a 12 pack.

I think fishermen can be classified as athletes if its competetive fisihing. If you can say bowling, golf, nascar, and chess are sports, why not fishing? :-/

Man I am confused, last year was my first year of retirement from racing, first year not getting my Nascar license in about 20 yrs, before that USAC, IMCA, and Allied Auto Racing around the St. Louis area. When I started there wasn't any power steering, car's were set up to handle and turn, not for ease of driving, you had to muscle them around, now power steering, soft springs, lot's of travel in the suspension, seats that fit the driver (not out of a truck), window net's, head & neck restraint's, I wasn't an Athlete, I was a Race Car Driver, I retired after finally realizing that concrete walls were actually harder than my head. I have taken up Bass Fishing, to relax, to enjoy the piece and quiet, no stress, watch all the animals move around the lake when the sun comes up. Now you want to call me a Athlete again, jeeeees, what are you going to call me if I take up  Knitting, never mind I don't really want to know. Move over Rosie.