Bernard Herbert "Red Fisher" Goldstein (February 18, 1914 – May 5, 2006)[1] was an American sporting goods retailer, U.S. naval and United States Coast Guard officer, newspaper columnist, and poet.
Such guests included ice hockey stars Gordie Howe, Eddie Shack, and Johnny Bower, and baseball players Ted Williams, Roger Maris and Ferguson Jenkins.
[2] In 2000, he released a collection of stories and anecdotes from his life called Tight Lines and Tall Tales (ISBN 9780968976104).
[3] The Red Green Show, created by Canadian comedian Steve Smith, was a spoof of Fisher's several TV titles, some incarnations of which were Tall Tale Adventures and Our Great Outdoors.
In the sketch, the archangel Gabriel tells a Catholic trying to get into Heaven that following the tenets of his religion was useless and that he "may as well have stayed home and watched Red Fisher."