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Video moment: Bull poker, the next great American sport

Late at night after all the so-called real sports are over, I often find myself channel surfing between two of my favorite late-night diversions -- poker and bull riding.

Now, some sports marketing genius has stumbled upon a way to combine the two. It's called Bull Poker or Sweat Poker (you'll understand when you see it) or simply, Dang! That there bull's horns sure are pointy!

Here are the rules. You got your card table; you got your poker players; you got your rodeo arena, and you got your bull. Everyone sits down at the poker table and waits. You set the bull loose. Last person sitting at the poker table wins.

As the expression goes -- WHAT could possibly go wrong

Thanks to the Wicker Chops website for pointing it out. Catch the lady participant who says: "It never crossed my mind at the time that there would be any danger involved." Also a warning, there's an icky but not fatal injury near the end.

In this next one, keep your eye on the guy with the red hat and back to the camera about a minute into the video -- because he disappears in a hurry.

Comments

I something similiar at a county fair. They put a lasso in a lope on the ground. Two people had to put one leg each into the circle and if one of them left the circle the last one in, got $50. They guy got thrown about 6 foot into the air by the bull, lucky for him, he was just shaken up. I can think of safer ways to make $50!

Note: about bull riding. Seeing it on TV aint nothing like being ringside and seeing it live. Total atmosphere change.
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I love the names of the bulls and hearing about their personal histories.
Yep Shorty, now this bull, ol' Emergency Room right here, ain't been ridden for eight seconds since the first Clinton administration. He specializes in the double-twist, flip and rib poke and just got himself an endorsement deal with Johnson & Johnson. Oww, whoee, and that's a new move for ER, the shouder stomp. That's gonna leave a mark on that cowboy.
-- Bill O.

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Bill Ordine has been a reporter and editor for more than 25 years and during that time has covered Super Bowls, major murder trials, township zoning board meetings and bat mitzvahs. In his time with The Baltimore Sun, he has been an assistant city editor, pro football writer, poker columnist, enterprise sports reporter and now blogger -- which may indicate his editors have yet to find a job he can get right.
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