Thread: Cowboy Up - A thing called Rodeo

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Dang right, Big event in locals across the country. They usually coincide with county fairs and are lots of fun. I even got enamored with bull-riding a while as-young.
Got tossed off about half the time. Figured after a bit it was not for me! I just finally learned that about motocross!
Always a good show at a local rodeo!

Now that explains a lot,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Now that explains a lot,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Yep. Sharptonn. "Brain-damaged since 1959!"

I have to say the clowns have a tough job and I'm not sure how they do it. I'm usually watching the clowns. Who with a shred of sanity taunts the angry bulls.

"Boys, ain't but two things will get on a bull. Them's flies and fools and neither one of you little Sh%T HEADS got wings!" ~Fuzz Griffith R.I.P.

Fuzzy said that to his son Jimmy Dale aka "Nig" and me one morning after we'd been to the buck outs at the old Kowbell Rodeo in Mansfield, TX back in 68 or 69. Both of us
had gotten mudholes stomped in our young rear ends and then walked dry by the green bulls we tried to ride. Green bulls have never been bucked and they either explode or dink out.

Ours exploded.

Tried saddle bronc and bareback too.

Made a bit of money here and there, but never enough to get a RCA card. Rode open shows and jackpots until a pretty little brahma named "STANLEY" of all things, finished my career at
open show in Douglas, GA in '73. Two broken wrists, broken nose, hole cut all the way through my lower lip and some other bumps, cuts and bruises. That SOB did a J-O-B on my young rear end.

Been on plenty of rank horses since then but never got on another bull.

Too old for that kind of fun now. Takes too long to heal up. I'll still saddle up and ride the pastures at my sister's place, but they don't have any rank mutts. We're all too old for those games anymore.

'Tis why I quit. Started back into cars,trucks, boats, motorcycles, and Girls.....Not necessarily in that order!

I saw it happen to a few guys. Guess I was bad enough at it to lean the other way. Not for me!

My Misses likes the Rodeo somewhat, as she grew up with them and loves the smell of horses & cow crap and what have you,
where as I am a City Lad & don't really like country or western
and some off our friends are horse People with the kids riding comps etc

so we go to an anual Rodoe near here but I barack for the bulls,
some of the yokals don't seem to like it for some reason, but hey someones gotta do it

Originally Posted by Substance

My Misses likes the Rodeo somewhat, as she grew up with them and loves the smell of horses & cow crap and what have you,
where as I am a City Lad & don't really like country or western
and some off our friends are horse People with the kids riding comps etc

so we go to an anual Rodoe near here but I barack for the bulls,
some of the yokals don't seem to like it for some reason, but hey someones gotta do it

Well. If you knew some of those jokers on the bulls personally, the bull gets rooted-for quite often!