42 Replies to “Zeb Lanham VS Wranglers Rock Star”

  3. The good news is that Zeb didn’t get fined by Transport Canada for violating Calgary Airport airspace!

  9. They interviewed him in the Calgary Sun and asked him about his ride. He said Ponoka is very pretty from Calgary. (It’s about 200 miles north of here). Now that is a tough bullrider.

  11. Always impressed by these athletes, The only sport where you pay to enter and get a pay cheque only if you win. No injured reserve here. Bulls have a pretty good job, work for eight seconds, maybe take a potshot at a cowboy or two and then go back for dinner. Mind you, if you can’t get motivated for eight seconds of work you will be dining at Mcdonald’s and it won’t be a Happy Meal.

  12. Looks like about 13ft or so of air between his body and the ground looking at the one camera view. That would win a high school pole vault competition.

  13. Reminded me of a steer wrestler I saw who bent over to reclaim his hat after wrestling the steer to the ground. The steer sought his revenge and applied his head to the coyboys butt at very high speed. The only lasting imprint was in the cowboy’s pride and the dirt where the cowboy’s face made what looked like a plough furrow.

  14. So why is it that in order to be accepted as a conservative one has to like this sort of stuff?
    If I say such a sport is barbaric, which it is, I will immediately be labelled as a left-wing nut, which I am certainly not.
    Why do people presume that if you care about the well-being of animals you simply cannot be conservative?
    Do all conservatives reading this blog view all animals as a much lower species of creature that we can do with as we please?

  15. TJ: the bulls are one h**l of a lot tougher than any human. The rest of the events in the rodeo are exactly what the working cowboy had to do to open up this country so people such as yourself have a place to live. I think I hear PETA calling your name.

  16. “So why is it that in order to be accepted as a conservative one has to like this sort of stuff?”
    Interesting conclusion TJ. how did you come up with that idea? Conservatives come in all shapes, sizes and colours. They also don’t have to like all the same stuff all the time. My daughter worked in The Canadian Alliance National HQ during an election campaign a while back and she is a twenty-something vegetarian! You would also be surprised to know that not everyone in Calgary goes to the Stampede or wears cowboy attire all year round.

  17. “If I say such a sport is barbaric, which it is, I will immediately be labelled as a left-wing nut, which I am certainly not.”
    Well, as a conservative and a former bull and bronc rider, may I politely say you know not what you speak of. Do you have any idea how tough bulls and horses are. Do you feel the same way when they flop a horse on the ground when making a movie? These livestock are pampered like trophy wives and they rarely, I mean very rarely get so much as a scratch over there careers.
    On another note, you will never find a tougher and friendlier breed of man than a bull/bronc rider. No matter how badly they are hurt they will walk out of the ring before collapsing. I once saw a rider go over a 5′ fence on a running bronc and the horse landed right on him. He hopped back over the fence and walked the whole length of the ring. It was only after he arrive that we found out he had 4 broken ribs, tibia and wrist.
    That’s tough. The animals are much tougher. His ride was unharmed.

  18. Jim said “I think I hear PETA calling your name.”
    I knew it wouldn’t take long for someone to prove my point, and Jim you just did!

  20. TJ: Conservatives eat animals and make hats out of their hides.
    The left wing nuts worry about the animal’s feelings. That’s the difference.

  21. The alternative job for these bulls is at McDonalds or Burger King.
    would you like frys with me,sir?

  23. “Do all conservatives reading this blog view all animals as a much lower species of creature that we can do with as we please? ”
    We are the top of the food chain TJ, learn to live with it!

  24. “Do all conservatives reading this blog view all animals as a much lower species of creature that we can do with as we please? ”
    Well Kate the bait worked perfectly…I knew there was a reason you placed this video there….we waited all day for a big fat sucker to bite on it and now all’s left is to reel in the snot spewing moral exhibitionist on the other end. 😉

  25. “Do all conservatives reading this blog view all animals as a much lower species of creature that we can do with as we please? ”
    Well, I’d much sooner be viewing said creature down my rifle sight’s or thru my scope than from a vantage point on his back.
    Is THAT ok with ya TJ?

  28. I have an order of species
    humans.
    primates
    liberals.
    carnivores.
    ungulates .
    dippers.
    sea slugs.

  29. I’d say that bull looked pretty happy about that. If I were a bull I’d live every day just to butt some guy in the rear like that.

  32. Ok….I’m not a PETA lover,nor am I a vegan but this is NOT sport. Whenever I see this?? I root for the bull.

  34. How do we know the bull doesn’t love what he’s doing?
    Same way some dogs like doing tricks, hunting etc. Some horses seem to me to love being ridden.
    Those bulls are well taken care of, believe me.

  36. sea slug? I meant sea cucumber , a brainless creature whose defence mechanism is to spill its on guts to escape.

  38. The cowboy looks like he’s wearing a bullet proof vest. Is that in case the bull accidentally swallows a rifle and starts shooting bullets from his horns?

  39. TJ:
    The cruelest thing you can do to animals is being alive. Instead of banning sports because *you* don’t like them, under the guise of “animal rights”, I suggest maybe suicide?
    To the Conservatives that equate eating meat with conservatism, you’re all idiots… maybe even more so than TJ.
    //CPC member
    //Vegetarian
    //In Calgary

  40. I live in Calgary, this was quite refreshing. Most of the bull and clowns we are exposed to are in the Legislature in Edmonton.

  41. I too root for the bulls/broncos. Wrenching that leather pouch around their nuts just before they go out of the shoot really pisses them off. Wanting a little payback in those moments is totally understandable.
    Its a contact sport and fair is fair. The riders more than know the risks.

  42. Sign up this horse-riding, gun-owning, retired combat vet conservative as aligning with those who always root for the critter.
    Especially in bull-fighting (which this is not, ya, I know).
    My horse Willy was a barrel-racer and roper, and a darn good one, and he enjoyed doing it.
    But yeah, I’m always for the critter. I don’t want to see riders killed or crippled, mind you, but it doesn’t cause me an instant’s angst if they hobble out of the arena in pain.
    I’m just mean.

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