Seattlest: Monday Night Football 2Night

Michael van Baker

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:02:59 -0800

Whereas Charlie Royer, Norm Rice have the touch of natural-born fishmongers. You can't fake familiarity with gill slit placement. I still hear people talking about Royer's over the shoulder, no-look catch during his welcome speech, when he became director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's JFK School of Government. The bigshot Easterners were left with their jaws hanging.

Seth

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:44 -0800

I've always thought that Mark Sidran lost his respect with voters when he bobbled a haddock in the traditional pre-mayoral-debate fish throw-off.

Michael van Baker

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:18:00 -0800

If there's one thing that stands out about Seattle, it's how much we like to throw fish. Kids play catch with 'em on the sidewalk. Many times bicycling home I've had an errant fish end up in my bike's basket, which goes directly into the flour and into my frying pan. Thank god, I say, that TV continually celebrates this homegrown custom of ours.