Pro Rodeo...Bullriding

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I sat down for the first time in weeks and watched the boob tube. I was in a stationary position because my wife was cutting my hair. I was surfing the channels and on ESPN was ProRodeo's Extreme Bullriding. I was curious how many of you enjoy watching this sport. I love it and even went to see it live when the PBR was in Baltimore. So who likes it or do you think these guys are nuts?
Scott
 
Robert Earl Keen related that he'd had a 15-second bull-riding career. That was five bulls at three seconds each...

He said riding a bull was like going down the freeway in your car, and tossing the steering wheel out the window.

Personally, I'm afraid of any living thing larger than I am.
 
I don't watch it on TV because I don't get espn, but I'm always at the rodeo when the National Rodeo Circuit comes to town yearly. I'm determined to try the bullriding comp by next year if I'm not hurting too badly.(old muay thai injuries)

The rodeo is one of the few things I really enjoy.
Great people, great fun.

BTW, talking about rodeos, here's something interesting from Australia:
Raging bulls and racial equality

By Phil Mercer
BBC News, Darwin

Hundreds of rodeo fans in Australia's tropical north have been enjoying the delights of bucking horses and rampaging bulls this week at an event near Darwin. Aboriginal cowboys were among the riders, and as Phil Mercer learnt, the rodeo is helping to unite Australians.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4385168.stm
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Bull riding is one of the original extreme sports. I see that lots of riders wear (sometimes) mandatory "flak" vests now. That still leaves way too many body parts available to get stomped-on IMO.

Nevertheless, I enjoy watching it. Those guys are some tough hombres.
 
I like it. I like it alot. I like it very much. Who ever thought of "Hey I'll ride that Bull" had to be genious. Big, macho, sport. ahhhhhhh.
 
I don't watch it, although I enjoy Rodeo. To me, it has nothing to do with cowboying; it serves no purpose on a ranch. That said, better them than me. :eek: I am not that ballsy.
 
panella said:
Bull riding is one of the original extreme sports.
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Cindy Denning said:
Who ever thought of "Hey I'll ride that Bull" had to be genious.
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Studies of Neandertal skeletal damage indicates these men lived a life similar in its effects to rodeo riders. One theory for the injuries they suffered is that they hunted animals by jumping on them and wrestling or tiring them out, in addition to stabbing and bleeding them.

Riding bulls may not be much use on a working ranch but it's an interesting way to get a steak dinner. :)
 
A few years back I rode a hotel-to-airport shuttle bus with a group of bull riders wearing Profesional Bull Riders Association jackets. I was struck by how lean and fit they were. I mean these guys were made out of rawhide and beef jerky. I was also struck by how young and how polite they all were too - jumping to their feet to offer a hand (and their seats) to my wife and I as we boarded with our then toddler daughter.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Studies of Neandertal skeletal damage indicates these men lived a life similar in its effects to rodeo riders. One theory for the injuries they suffered is that they hunted animals by jumping on them and wrestling or tiring them out, in addition to stabbing and bleeding them.
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Yes, that has happened on some dog drives with white tail deer and the deer always won. But it sure is fine to see a manly man ride that bull. I like the rodeo riders.:D :)
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Cool pic Cindy.:D I like bullriding but my favorite in all the rodeo events is the bareback riding. Those horses are certainly powerful and fast.:eek: I think ESPN will be having the Wrangler Rodeo Finals on in December. I'd love to go to LasVegas and watch it. Now that would be :cool:
Scott
 
One of the finest bulls, Little Yellowjacket, will be retiring at the end of the season. Think it was either J.Hart or Shivers who mentioned L.YJ is as good now as he was when he first appeared on the scene."Any bull that can still launch a rider after a 2.4 second ride is not ready to retire." He will be missed! Just not as much by the pile of cowboys that he ejected on a fairly regular basis.:thumbup: :eek: :cool:
 
leatherbird said:
One of the finest bulls, Little Yellowjacket, will be retiring at the end of the season. Think it was either J.Hart or Shivers who mentioned L.YJ is as good now as he was when he first appeared on the scene."Any bull that can still launch a rider after a 2.4 second ride is not ready to retire." He will be missed! Just not as much by the pile of cowboys that he ejected on a fairly regular basis.:thumbup: :eek: :cool:
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I remember seeing LYJ at the Baltimore event. Now that is one badass bull for sure.:eek:
Scott
 
The last real mans sport. Get thrown off, just pick up your hat and walk off with your head down in shame.

No whining, or complaining about the ref's, or no blocking or any of the excussess we here from the millionair whiners of all the "ball" sports.
 
Um, I rode a cow once. Well, I was like six years old and the cow was friendly and my dad put me up on it...

I do like rodeos, to a point. I used to compete in barrel racing. I like watching bull riding and bronc riding and I like it when the bulls and the horses get revenge on the dumbf***s prodding them in the pen and cutting off the circulation to their balls with the buck strap. And I like the rodeo clowns if they are good. And I like the "rescue" riders, whatever you call them, who help the guys off after they've finished, and the horses that they ride, which are usually awesome. And I like cutting and appreciate watching cutting horses, even though I've only ever done it as a kid with the heifers on our farm, just for fun, back when I had my pony, Houdini, who used to buck me off and run me under tree branches.

I hate calf roping and steer "wrasslin'" and I think those people should have to feel what it is like to get strangled themselves before they attempt it.

~ashes
 
yep, i see it when i can get to a tv. they are retiring Little Yellow Jacket. that was a crazy monster.

S/F<
CEYA!
 
I don't know what I'd do with a real bull rider in my home. We don't ride bulls in the south, we do Nascar. A Westerner, what are they like and how do they talk? They probably wouldn't say no to the food, that's for sure. How they be?
 
One of my dreams is to ride a bull one day.

My goals are to get on, and then get off with my life so that I can run around the ring burning off the adrenaline. :D
 
Terry Newton said:
One of my dreams is to ride a bull one day.

My goals are to get on, and then get off with my life so that I can run around the ring burning off the adrenaline. :D
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Couldn't help but notice you're from S. Tennessee. Ya'll couldn't beat a "rooster" the last time you were here 2 weeks ago and you keep dreaming about that bull, sugar.:D
 
Cindy, I had such a high respect for you before now. That was an extremely low blow.

Can we bring back the chiclets now? :D

Believe me, everyone here is wondering what is going on as well. :confused: :o :D
 
Terry Newton said:
Cindy, I had such a high respect for you before now. That was an extremely low blow.

Can we bring back the chiclets now? :D

Believe me, everyone here is wondering what is going on as well. :confused: :o :D
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WTF was this about? :confused: So she tells things like they are. Cindy has never been mean to anyone. If you want to bitch at someone, bitch at me. :mad: Dumbass.

~ashes
 
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