Mitchell Report?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by GarthB

I loved his defense that it was a "cultural thing." I'm still trying to figure out to which culture he was referring.

Dog fighting is largely a southern and rural activity. Just like hunting deer is a rural Midwestern cultural activity. I live in the Chicago area now, but I do not know many people in this metropolitan area that openly talk about going hunting. It is not in the culture of this area. Just like cock fighting is something you see in rural areas in the south you would not likely see this activity in California for example.

I have an officiating friend that goes hunting all the time and he talks all the time about when they went out hunting. I worked a game with him recently and we took a detour to a relative's house so he could get a gift for his hunting. While I was sitting there all the hunting talk was Greek to me, but it was something he grew up doing and many folks in that part (where I grew up) do often. This not something widely talked about in the area I currently live.

Peace