It featured patriarch Phil Robertson, his wife Miss Kay, and their children and extended family members as they ran the outfit; it was so popular that during its heyday, the family was raking in the moolah not just in sales, but also in merchandise from clothing to video games.
Phil, in particular, regularly butted heads with network brass, and was even banned from the show indefinitely in after an infamous interview with GQ , during which he compared homosexuality to bestiality and suggested that black people were exaggerating what their ancestors suffered during the Jim Crow era. The network issued a statement following Phil's interview, and it wasn't exactly one that expressed support for the duck hunting patriarch.
Phil was even briefly suspended from his own show — and while the brouhaha wasn't entirely to blame for the show's cancellation, there can be no doubt that it certainly contributed to the network eventually opting to pull the duck hunters from the air.
At the time of the cancellation announcement, issued shortly after the season 11 premiere, the network and family issued a joint statement to say that it had been a mutual decision. There is one thing, however that cannot be ignored: the fact that the show's ratings dropped drastically in , after Phil publicly aired his views on homosexuality and his perception of the pre-Civil Rights era.
The tour includes a brochure and mobile website see link at the bottom of this page that features 26 locations filmed during the first three seasons of the show. Phil Robertson was a star quarterback at Louisiana Tech in Ruston during the late s. We watched him play for the Tech Bulldogs when we were also attending Tech.
Shown below are excerpts from the Louisiana Tech yearbook, the "Lagniappe", showing Phil in his football days. Together, the family members run a booming business that employs half their neighborhood, but at the end of the day, you can find the whole family around Miss Kay's dinner table.
The family motto has always been "God, Family and Ducks". And Phil leads the family as they say grace and give thanks at the table, a tradition we like and respect! Every Duck Dynasty episode ends with a prayer. You've seen those trucks on Duck Dynasty that say "McKaig" on the side, and wonder what the story is.
Louisiana is the most important wintering area for waterfowl in the United States. Hordes of ducks and geese have utilized the coastal bays and marshes, flooded swamps, agricultural fields, inland lakes, river backwaters and oxbows for hundreds of years. Those habitats provide for the needs of a large proportion of Mississippi Flyway waterfowl during migration and winter, and for those of breeding wood ducks, mottled ducks, and a growing number of whistling ducks.
The wetlands of Louisiana and their associated waterfowl attract hunters, birdwatchers, and scientists alike. Waterfowl hunting is incredibly popular in Louisiana, and the harvest ranks at or near the top in the entire nation.
That duck-hunting activity brings a lot of economic activity to the State. Hunters spend money on guns, ammunition, gasoline, clothing, duck blinds, lodging, transportation, and yes, duck calls and duck decoys! The state has become an exciting location featuring a diversity of towns and subjects for reality television for three main reasons:.
According to a report prepared by the Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development, Louisiana has had five consecutive years of economic growth in the film and music industry.
The report also recognizes Louisiana as ranked third in film and television production nationwide behind only California and New York. Popular Destinations Today in Louisiana. Phil Robertson in the Louisiana Tech yearbook. Louisiana ducks and waterfowl Louisiana Tech Lagniappe Yearbook, Standing in the back row, at left Terry Bradshaw Back row, third from left Phil Robertson.
We're looking at them like 'man, I tell you what' and they are looking at us like, whoa I tell you what, somewhere in there is a television show.
It's America, let it rip. The show mostly follows Willie and his beautiful wife Korie -- who claims Willie was "preppy" when she married him but she hasn't seen his face without its long beard in 30 years -- as the couple tries to keep up the business his father built from scratch.
And this actually isn't the Robertson family's first soiree into television. Back in the '80s, Phil Robertson produce Duck Commander videos that featured his best duck hunts. His brother Jep still edits them. Those videos and especially their long breads made the family minor celebrities in the hunting world. This way it's just more hospitable.
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