# Bubble ball bull games **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954 "2022-07-14T15:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/1 "2022-07-14T15:45:30Z")
This rodeo event has been around for some years and the fools keep coming forward for their chance to win a few hundred bucks if they outrun a BULL while wearing a bubble ball. Are they fucking nuts, and the crowd is laughing? > **[Bull gores and stamps on woman during a bubble ball bull race rodeo](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11012981/Horrifying-moment-bull-gores-stamps-helpless-woman-bubble-ball-bull-race-rodeo.html)** > > This is the moment a bull gores and stamps on a woman trying out a 'bubble ball bull racing' competition at a Utah rodeo. Contestants have to race around the arena back to the start to win $500. > **[Wild West Events – Vernal's Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo](http://vernalrodeo.com/wildwestevents/)** > **[Crash of the Week: Bull Sends Guy in Bubble Suit Flying... - SnowBrains](https://snowbrains.com/crash-of-the-week-bull-sends-guy-in-bubble-suit-flying/)** > > We’ve only got one word to sum up this video:  ‘Murica! We saw this and couldn’t believe that people would do this… Whoa. No.  It doesn’t look like he was ok…  Looked like he got knocked out or at least shook up something fierce. “A US... ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/2 "2022-07-14T15:49:29Z")
Yeah, they forsure nuts. I’d laugh at it tho’ right up to the time someone is gored and bleeding out. Crikey! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/3 "2022-07-14T15:54:37Z")
From your last cite: > [@](#): > > Encased in half-size Zorb balls – a giant inflatable plastic ball – the competitors chase after the oversized football. > But then the gates open and the game really spices up as one angry, hard-running bull is introduced to the play. > From there it’s anyone’s guess what the rules are or even if anyone is keeping score!” Sounds like real-life Death Calvinball ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/4 "2022-07-14T16:06:03Z")
One of the first things I was ever taught is, “Don’t play with your food!” We exploit these animals for our sustenance; exploiting them for our amusement is offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/5 "2022-07-14T22:59:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > these animals I presume you’re referring to the bulls there. Looks to me like it’s the ~~morons~~ humans in the bubble that are being exploited. Also, we don’t usually eat bulls 🙂 ETA: I have never seen this ‘event’ at any rodeo before, but I would definitely laugh unless someone was hurt. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/6 "2022-07-14T23:08:44Z")
It’s okay for the rodeo clowns I guess to distract and tease the bulls but to allow spectators in the ring is absolutely irresponsible. Wearing bubble balls as protection it’s ludicrous! That lady got gored in her stomach but hey the Roman’s got a good show hee haw. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubble-ball-bull-games/967954/7 "2022-07-14T23:31:33Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Also, we don’t usually eat bulls 🙂 Your parents should have taught you how cows are made, so it’s not my responsibility to explain it to you.