Cycling’s hundred years of history is piffle compared to the antiquity of bull-riding and unarmed bullfighting.
Yeah? Don’t see many Minoans around. Do you?
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Pussies.
In cycling, the athlete use the drugs to enhance performace. 
Have you checked out the price of an elite level race bike? Bet you it’s more expensive per pound. 
Sit on bull. Hang of for dear life for 8 seconds. Get off without having your arm ripped off, be gorred or trampled in the process. Run away.
How much more do I need to know before I can comment?
Better than bowling? You don’t say? There’s an endorsement to be proud of.
That’s all I’m saying. Not athletes. Entertainers, sure. But not athletes.
A natural desire to stay alive and the ability to run away is a sport now?
Wait, wait, wait – You’re denigrating the “sporti” of bull-riding and the sport you’re measuring it against is cycling???
Where TF is the skill in cycling? I mean, once you’ve figured out how the whole “riding a bicycle” thing, it’s basically a race, right?
Not that I’m invested in defending bullriders. As a group, bullriders are crazy as a bunch of shit-house rats. You ride a bull for fun or money, there’s pretty much nothing you’re not willing to do, especially after a few beers. Rodeo cowboys, but especially bull riders, make shitty boyfriends and shittier husbands, because they are hard-headed adrenaline junkies who think manliness is measured by the ability to risk your life and disregard serious pain, preferably in a different town every night. But if you think there’s no skill in bull-riding, let’s see you do it. Heck, even I can ride a bike.
The average bullrider could kick the shit out the average cyclist before the cyclist had time to adjust his padded spandex shorts.
Chicks dig bull riders. 
I was about to ask if anyone knew the history of bull riding as opposed to general rodeo. I see I’ve already got psychics working on that. Rodeo skills related to real life in many ways in the past. Anyone with even a tiny brain can see that. Skill competitions among ranch hands evolved in modern (ish) times to become what we now know as Professional Rodeo.
But bull riding never seemed to relate to any farm/ranch need that I could see. Yeah, I could always see the skill and athleticism involved, I just didn’t see any purpose. Other than crowd pleasing and proof of machismo. Some further enlightenment, please.
As for rodeo clowns, I respect them, but I’ve never known any. So, I can’t even extrapolate from the bull rider firemen I mentioned earlier to form any opinion of basic demeanor.
And I must ask these in the know women, does my perception of those two ass holes hold true to the general population of pro bull riders? Or are they really no more arrogant than virtually any other pro athelete?
BTW, just throwing this out for no good reason, I like riding my bike. It’s fun and it’s good exercise. I like riding horses, too. But, I wouldn’t even ride a bucking bronc by choice, much less an elitist bull.
Funny you should mention that.
Yes, it’s become painfully obvious that cyclists have to dope themselves to the eyeballs to be competitive.
For those interested in actually learning about bull-leaping, rather than sneering at it, here’s an in-depth article.
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Incidentally, if anyone is wondering what truly is the dumbest few seconds in, well, not exactly sports, but some type of competition, I bring you db drag racing. If you have 15 minutes to spare (begins about 6 minutes in) give this a listen for a good laugh. In summary: cars that you can’t drive, with stereos too loud to hear music on, compete to see which stereo is the loudest.
Hey, I heard more about Curling in the last Olympics than any other event.
How wrong is the world that a man sweeping is an Olympic event?
Kudo’s to the clowns. They are some gutsy folks. I have to say, comparing bull riding to bicycling just cracks me up. I’ll hop on a bike any day. Get on a bull? Not on your life.
Take a gander at show chickens. Look at some of the prices they bring. We rednecks may do crazier things sober than most can do drunk. But we do a damn fine job of amusing ourselves.
Let’s talk about how much money folks driving around in a circle brings in a year. I believe I heard that NASCAR is more popular than pro football.
We are fun to watch at weddings too. For many reasons. 
At least a working knowledge of what is involved in the “sport”.
I’m not calling bowling a sport. I don’t even consider bull riding a traditional “sport”, but the men who do it certainly must be athletic to compete at the PBR level. We are talking about years of practice and probably thousands of dollars just to even consider being in the “big league” of rodeo.
Say whatever you like. Doesn’t make it not true.
Would have helped a whole bunch of Young Virgins TM in the Friday the 13th movies, wouldn’t it?
Oh no, they are jackholes, to be sure. Bull-riders do tend to have enormous egos.
Truer words may never have been spoken on this board.
I’m not trying to defend what bull-riders do, either. For the record, I do know several bull-riders. I do know what kind of personality it takes to get on the back of a bull and I know what the dangers of the sport are. I’ve even “worked the chutes” at a rodeo and helped pen the bulls. I’m not claiming that bull-riders are Harvard material but they do have a skill, as ridiculous as the skill may seem to some.
I’m studying to be a race car passenger. I’ll learn to say things like,
“Say man, can I turn on the radio?”
“You should slow down.”
“We ever gonna turn right?”
“Man, you really like Tide…”
NoClueBoy –
AFAIK, having grown up around rodeo (but not from a rodeo family), bullriding doesn’t have a utilitarian history. It was invented by cowboys wanting to show each other how tough they could be.
Bullriders (heck, most rodeo cowboys) can be real jerks, but not IME in the sense of being arrogant “I’m a pro athelete” kind of jerks. Rodeo began (and largely remains) a rural sport, and most rodeo riders I’ve met cultivate that sort of down-home, modest, “I’m just like all y’all” demeanor. Rodeo fans would not appreciate riders who were pretentious or “uppity.” While some of this folksiness is artificial, a lot of it is genuine – good riders tend to have been up on horses since the age of 3 or 4 and to come from small western towns. Look at the current PRCA bull-riding standings and you’ll see the leaders are from places like Wills Point, TX, Payson, UT, and Sweet, ID. The jerkiness, IM years ago E, is in personal relationships. They tend to be stubborn, hard-headed, insenstive, and are notoriously unfaithful.
BUT, if there’s any more fun than being in Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo, I don’t know what it is.
Damn! I’m still chuckling 5 minutes after reading this. I salute you, sir! 
So to win the Tour de France you A) climb on a bike. B) ride for 6 hours or so, and C) finish in front of about 200 other guys. Lather rinse repeat for the next 28 days.
Easy right? :rolleyes:
You know it’s not that easy, I know it’s not that easy.
Bull riding ain’t that easy either I’ll bet.
-Rick
Who doesn’t have a bull in this race.
A large group of people riding horses down a very steep hill.
A large group of people riding a large log down a steep hill.
Absolutely.
That’s part of the fun. People hold up signs for the bulls. Some of those bulls have buck-off percentages of like 98%. If you like a bull, you don’t want to see him ridden.
If the roots of this sport AREN’T two guys leaning on a fence and one of them saying, “I bet you can’t stay on that sonofabitch for 8 seconds” then I don’t want to know about it.
It’s hilarious to watch. By the time you get to November, pretty much 100% of the riders have been injured. This guy has a broken hand. This one tore his knee up. Broken cheek bone. Dislocated shoulders and elbows.
There was a guy at the championships in Vegas last year, that IIRC, was riding with a broken fuckin’ leg. Talk about a tough guy.
(I don’t have OLN anymore. I’m mainly upset about missing the cycling season, but I miss the PBR too).
You know, I am born and raised in the city, a yankee at that. Never been to a Rodeo, have little interest in them, and never watch them on TV. And, I don’t know anything about how they work including scoring etc.
But for some strange reason I have this burning desire to to see one of these cowboys smack you in the mouth. Maybe it’s the utter lack of knowledge in your posts. (after all, you seem to have no more grasp on the sport than I do)
I’m not sure I’d pay good money to see a Rodeo, but I sure would to see you call one of these guys “pussy”.
Let’s not omit the dumbest 30 second event- the string grab.
Now, not all rodeos do this, but a LOT of them do it, or something similar. You pay $10 for a chance. The rodeo managers tie a string around the bull’s neck, then turn him loose at one end of the arena and turn all the entrants loose at the other end. If someone manages to yank the string off the bull’s neck, he wins the entries for that evening.
Back in the days when I was an EMT, the ambulance company that I worked for provided contract coverage for a small weekend rodeo outside of Houston. One night, they let a guy that was so drunk he could barely stand pay his $10 and get in the ring. And the bull got him. Fortunately, he didn’t get him with a horn - it was a straight head shot, folded him right over the skull between the horns, then threw him about 20 feet into the wall. I just knew that stupid asshole was gonna be dead. But he got up, shook himself off, puked, then went back out after the bull again.
We used to have to patch the clowns up on a regular basis. Cuts, contusions and bruises were SOP, but every once in a while, we’d get a dislocation or a broken rib to work on. And gawds, were those guys scarred up!
The only good thing about working those events, other than the extra pay, was ogling the hotties in their tight jeans. And they thought it was soooo funny to come up to us and tell us that they had a boo-boo and could we fix it, because they knew we would promptly tell them to step into the ambulance and undress so we could conduct an examination.
First, look up satire in the dictionary.
Second, lighten up Francis.
Third, this is the pit, not GD. This is where unsupported rants based on pet peeves go.
Finally, WTF would me taking a shot in the mouth prove? Would the fact that I can take one (and return one in kind) improve my standing in your eyes? Would it make my argument stronger? Would my broken jaw suddenly elevate PBR in status as a more gentlemanly pursuit? And what sort of idiot stand there and takes a shot in the face without protecting himself? (The sort that gets on a bull, I suppose.)
Or would it simply satisfy your morbid desire for violent response when somebody challenges your delicately balanced point of view?
Bull riders, bah. What a bunch of pussies. Let me see them ride a bucking rhino, then we’ll talk.
Just a quick q re: bullriding: Is using only 1 hand to hold onto the rope a rule, or is it more beneficial to have free arm for balance transfer?
Also, I used to be a huge fan of bicycle racing until I found out that it’s really just a competition on who can best hide drugs in their body. So, now I respect bull riding more.