B. Donald “Bud” Grant:
(7 februari 1932 – 1 juli 2011).
Amerikaans televisiemanager. Hij begon zijn carrière bij NBC in 1956 en bleef daar tot 1972, toen hij bij CBS ging werken. Hij stond bekend om de wederopstanding van spelshows op het programma voor overdag na een afwezigheid van vier jaar sinds 1968, zoals The Price is Right. Hij was President van CBS Entertainment van 1980 tot 1987 en was de speerpunt van de jaren 80 CBS shows zoals Newhart en Murder, She Wrote.
Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that’s hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You’ve got to be careful if you’re a hunter, that it doesn’t become an obsession.
Bud Grant is describing the seasonal rhythm of an outdoorsman in the northern United States:
– By mid-September, the first frost signals the transition from fishing to autumn hunting.
– Fishing equipment is put away and attention turns to hunting.
– His final sentence is a warning: enthusiasm for hunting can become excessive and begin to dominate one’s time, responsibilities, relationships, or judgment.
The first frost is more a traditional marker of autumn than a literal start date; legal hunting seasons vary by location and species.
Author and origin:
The quotation is ‘widely attributed to Bud Grant’—Harry Peter “Bud” Grant Jr. (1927–2023), the Hall of Fame Minnesota Vikings coach and lifelong hunter, fisherman, and conservation-minded outdoorsman.
It appears to be a ‘personal observation by Grant’, not an older proverb. However, most online quotation collections reproduce it without a reliable date, interview, page number, or original publication. It is sometimes associated generally with Grant’s autobiographical writings and outdoor interviews, including the period surrounding his memoir:
> “I Did It My Way: A Remarkable Journey to the Hall of Fame”
> Bud Grant with Jim Bruton, 2013.
Unless a page or original interview can be located, the safest attribution is:
> ‘Attributed to Bud Grant; original source uncertain.’
A commonly reproduced version begins:
> “Come the middle of September, when the first frost comes, that’s hunting season…”
