Nowadays there is a lot of talk about football, hockey and boxing being dangerous sports. The sport of bull and bronco riding has to be a dangerous sport compared to football, hockey and boxing. Why is rodeo bull riding so dangerous?
These bull riders may only be on the bull for only a couple of seconds, but a couple of seconds is all it takes for the bull’s head to smash your face. Other bull riders have been dragged, trampled and landed by bulls. Keep in mind that these bulls weigh anywhere from 1,000 to nearly 2,000 pounds of solid, angry muscle.
Bull riding is a dangerous sport, because a 1,000-pound bull could launch a cowboy fifteen to twenty feet into the air with nothing but solid ground to fall on. Not only that, after you fall off, you have an angry bull chasing you at full speed, and if he catches you, it’s game over most of the time.
There has been talk that after some cowboys get injured, they still want to get back on a bull and ride again. However, after breaking heads with a 1,000-pound animal, many riders never want to see another bull again. On the other hand, some bull riders live for the adrenaline rush that comes from riding bulls, and many times they get cured, then you see that you are back riding bulls again.
Bull riding is a dangerous sport, because you see that there is a rope, that is, tied under the bull and your hand is wrapped in this rope. So therefore if you are thrown from the bull and your hand is caught in the rope. You could be dragged under the bull and trampled severely, before you can let go of your hand.
However, you are not the only one in the arena when this happens; there are rodeo clowns who have been trained to taunt the bull and make it stop. On the other hand, rodeo clowns will keep the bull away from you, after it has knocked you to the ground.
These people risk their lives on a daily basis and are at much greater risk than the cowboy bull rider; however, they are not the ones getting on a 1,000-pound bull. Now that you’ve figured out why bull riding is so dangerous. You see why there are a select few, who will actually get on the bull and hold on for the full 8 seconds.