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Professional Bull Riding : The South's next major sports bubble

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jul 18, 2019.

  1. Professional Bull Riding.
    You can count the days until NASCAR and Football fans start tuning in ...


    The southern Bubbas who root for 'Bama - Roll Tide - on Saturday and were part of Jr. Nation on Sunday, will no doubt start getting into PBR.
    Book it.

    Meet The Most Politically Incorrect Sports League in America

    Personally, I prefer Mutton-Busting.
     
  2. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    Ryan Dirteater, a Cherokee from Hulbert, OK, is ninth on the PBR money list.
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    That's funny, because many of the top PBR guys are foreigners. And the PBR base doesn't care for it one bit.
     
  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Would be fun to be in Vegas one time for the PBR finals, not just for the event but to see that crowd at the casinos. They're legendary for tossing around tons of money.
     
  5. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    One of the rarely-discussed areas of overlap in the Venn diagram between bull riding and sumo wrestling.
     
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  6. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Here's the most disturbing fact in that story: 1 of every 15 rides results in injury. There is no definition of "injury" regarding severity in the piece, but this story says bull riding is 10 times more dangerous than football.
     
  7. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    A 2,000-pound bull is much more dangerous than a 300-pound defensive lineman. Simple matter of physics.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Bullriders are constantly injured. They use two full rolls of athletic tape on the arm they use to hold onto the rope just to keep their fingers, wrist and elbows from pulled loose. Shoulder injuries are so common nobody talks about them. And that's just the stuff you have to deal with after a successful ride.

    Get thrown and it can get much, much worse.
     
  9. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    They brought that circuit to Richmond years ago - and the event was a Memorial so I decided to do a story on the person who was being memorialized. Died young, while riding a bull. Crazy dangerous. Hell, you ride for eight seconds if you are lucky but the bull doesn't react to the horn and just stop trying to toss your ass. YOU STILL HAVE TO GET OFF.

    One guy gets thrown forward and his vest gets caught on the horns and he hangs over the bull's face. Now the bull is scared and can't see. He starts slamming the guy repeatedly into the boards and it took a long time to get him freed as several of the "clowns" and others came in to help.

    Not sure why anybody does that shit.
     
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  10. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Almost all of the top riders are small guys, which is why my uncle went no further than county fairs and such back in the ‘70s. He said a small bull was harder to ride than a big one because a small bull was much quicker. I saw him get hurt riding a small spotted bull, and that pretty much cured me of wanting to try it.
     
  11. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Growing up around rodeo, I tried it a couple times. At 6-3, I was told by a former NFR world champion to switch to steer wrestling or roping if I wanted to rodeo. Obviously, I did not.
     
  12. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Made me think of this great sport:

     
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