The most dangerous part of rodeo...your greatest chance of being hurt or killed..is driving to and from the event. I have seen a tennis player slip and fall, and ended up paralized from the neck down. It has happened to bowlers, bicyclist, jogger's, and golfers. I was watching a PBR event on TV once, and the commentator was saying that this is the world's most dangerous sport, and that bull riders were the toughest athletes in the world...they feel no pain. And thy are the bravest in the world, they have no fear". He was wrong. They are the toughest in the word because they DOO feel pain, but ignore it and push through despite pain and injury. And they ARE the bravest, because they DO feel fear. There can be no courage where there is no fear. Nothing brave about doing something you aren't afraid of.I am not saying they aren't tough... they are... they have more balls than 95% of the population... but they are also just a bit crazy.... gotta be... and the rodeo bull fighters/clowns are even tougher... because like the one in that video that was able to jump up and hang on enough to get that cowboy's hand out of the rigging after he got knocked out had more cojones than most.....
I'm with @Quachita all the way with going to watch them... but I too think about when someone needs to care for someone after the fact...
God Bless everyone of the participants and the ones that pull their bacon out of the fire.
Last year I saw a rider get knocked out by the horns when the bull was slinging his head. He was unconscious when he hit the ground. This was a bad bull he had drawn, Came after the rider soon as he hit the ground. Paid no attention to the bull fighters trying to distract him...just focused on finishing off this rider, One of the fighters threw himself on the rider's body to shield him from the attack. Took a horn to the side of his gut, and had several ribs broken when the bull kept grinding his head into the man's back, but never got off the man til the stock contractor got a rope on the bull and drug him off.
Bull fighters are NOT clowns, and take offense at being called that. Now, there will be a clown at a rodeo, doing tricks between events and bantering with the announcer. But if he is the arena during the bull riding, he is the man in the barrel.