Watched about 30 seconds of some rodeo on the Versus Channel.

The bull riders have more protective devices then our troops in Fallujha.

Buncha ****.

If you ride a cow with a football helmet on...

you might be a ****.

Yep

well, you get on a bull then without protective gear and then you can whine

Me, I am watching from the safety of my living room

OP, never tried to deal with a Bovine up close, have ya??

Same here. I think it is cool. Wish I could get my family to go with me once as it has been a good 20 years since I have gone.

Funny dkeage, I actually have ridden steers and the ocassional bull. And without any of the **** equipment.

Is that a nice way to refer to your boyfriends?

Ty Murray probably could have used the gear. Might not have helped him anyway.

del

Did some high profile cowboy get killed?

When did all this protective gear get introduced to the sport?

When I lived in Oklahoma I worked with a guy from Texas that was 1st runner up to rookie of the year in the pro bull riding. Oddly enough his name was Clem...go figure.

Anyhow, he was in a competition down there and the bull threw him off and proceeded to gore the hell out of him. The horn caught him right below the knee on the inside of the leg and ripped him a new one all the way up to around his nad sack. I didn't ask to see the scar and he didn't offer so I took him at his word.

He said he got back on another bull a few weeks later and ripped out almost all of those stitches. Pretty shallow gene pool he was swimming in.

del

Ouch.

And the body armor and short-bus helmet wouldn't have helped him either.

Sounds like another Dallas Cowgirl thread.

To be completely truthful, I only rode them when they were 6-9 months old. Once they hit 750 pounds, I stayed away from them.

^Point taken

There is a bar in Phoenix you can ride a bull at. Mr luckeys

Gilley's in Houston as well.

Charlie

It's not the riders, it's the rules. No gear, no ride... no ride, no money. I had a friend get his skull cracked, he was in rehab for years. Call em' **** if you want, but try doing what they do for a living.

Hell snowboarders wear helmets, and they're on snow!?! These guys are getting stepped on by a 1200lb animal.

i ride a 900 lb iron bull, and i don wear no stinkin helmet.....................

The Saddle Ranch Chop House in Scottsdale, the Cadillac Ranch in Tempe, The Hammerhead Jacks in Carefree and Graham Central Station in Tempe also have them.

We've sorta become the mecca of mechanical bulls in the Valley of the Sun, lately...Don't ask me why 'cuz I just don't know....