I got a nice surprise a few weeks ago. An email from my editor at Georgia Outdoor News said “ You’re famous – you were quoted in Sports Illustrated.”

I was sure it was a joke but when I searched on my name and the magazine title the following was in the issue that contained information about the Bassmasters Classic:

“Behind Bryant are 220,000 square feet of exhibition space filled to the gills with Ugly Stiks and Mr. Crappies, and an 18,000-seat arena that will host the nightly weigh-in for the 44th annual Bassmaster Classic, the self-described Super Bowl of Fishing—though to the 200,000 angling enthusiasts passing through here in cardboard hats in the shape of bass and weapons of bass destruction T‑shirts, the Classic is a vast improvement on the Super Bowl. Says Ronnie Garrison, veteran correspondent from Fishing-About.com, “They really should call the Super Bowl the Bassmaster Classic of Football.”

I called my editor since I assumed it was only in the on-line version but he said it was in the March 17, 2014 printed magazine. That was where he saw it.

I am not sure if the writer heard me say that while I was at the Classic as a media observer, or if he found it here. No matter, being quoted in that magazine is a once-in-a-lifetime thrill. Or maybe in many lifetimes. I never expected it. And he even got my website right!

Now,if I can just find a printed version or ten to buy.