Is seems as though blue-eyesight is having trouble focusing on life in the middle east. I promise that the next blog will be about something interesting and exotic and foreign, like the Arab's obsession with Kleenex. However, some of you will find this blog topic interesting and exciting and very foreign as well.
In honor of a certain birthday, I am going to report on the phenomenon know as Professional Bull Riding. You may have been to a rodeo so you know that the most exciting part has always been the bull riding http://www.pbrnow.com/. The rules are simple. "Place a wiry 150-pound cowboy on the back of a hulking, snorting temperamental 2,000 pound bull and see if he can ride the beast for an eternal eight seconds...with one hand strapped to the bull's massive backside."
In honor of a certain birthday, I am going to report on the phenomenon know as Professional Bull Riding. You may have been to a rodeo so you know that the most exciting part has always been the bull riding http://www.pbrnow.com/. The rules are simple. "Place a wiry 150-pound cowboy on the back of a hulking, snorting temperamental 2,000 pound bull and see if he can ride the beast for an eternal eight seconds...with one hand strapped to the bull's massive backside."
Lashing yourself to a giant bucking bull makes for some good fun. The boys have taken this to a new level and now the show is just about the bulls. No barrel racing, calf roping, or steer wrestling to get in the way. Of course there are the Jack Daniel's girls and the Copenhagen smokeless tobacco girls as sort of cheerleaders with chaps. However, my personal favorite is the Flint the rodeo clown or "The Lord of the Clowns" as he likes to be known. http://www.flintrasmussen.com/about_flint.html. Reported to make over a million dollars for entertaining the crowd between rides, it wouldn't be the same without him. 
In this sport, the bulls are just as popular as the cowboys. The cowboys are all named Cody while the bulls have great names, my personal favorite being "Cheeseburger with an Attitude."
Now the bulls are bred just like the thoroughbred race horses only instead of fast, they want mean and ornery. They say the "mean gene" comes from the mother's side....hmmm.
Now the bulls are bred just like the thoroughbred race horses only instead of fast, they want mean and ornery. They say the "mean gene" comes from the mother's side....hmmm.
Our tickets have already been purchased for next year's finals in Vegas and my money is on Cody to win.
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