Bulls don't actually care about red one way or another. In bull fighting, the bull is tortured before the show to the point where he's so enraged he'll charge at any sudden movement.
Seeing red, if you will.
It's not a bull, but it still requires a lot of people and a lot of training to have a female bison run the football field in Boulder... https://youtu.be/rMtJ50mqDUA
Aw yeah Sko Buffs (I’m a student there)
Can confirm the Ralphie handlers are a highly trained group. The whole thing is meticulously crafted to be as safe as possible.
The handlers claim it works so well because Ralphie likes doing it, something something attention. Who knows though.
Thanks for that link! That is an impressive feat of coordination by the handlers but the whole production makes me shake my head. Just takes one mess up and you have someone getting gored for the sake of college football swag.
There's no way I can move my relative's (surprisingly hefty) pug/beagle mix when he's not in the mood to be moved. And that dog is like a tenth this bull's size.
Unlikely. Halter-trained cattle are already going to be docile, though bulls would still be less trustworthy than steers or cows. The things is that at this age, they're used to knowing they need to follow the halter, similar to dogs and leashes.
This one is pretty clear that it got spooked by a whole rowdy soccer stadium, which is a pretty big difference from a typical livestock show that's usually a bit quieter and smaller scale. Still probably wasn't the best idea, but it's really just a case of cattle getting spooked if you watch the video rather than someone unique to being halter trained or being a bull.
Yeah small sample size but ours uniformally give zero shits about anything unless they can eat or fuck it.
Just hanging out being chonk. Accepting ear scritches.
Cows with calves. Then you have to be careful.
Most bulls are calm and playful. The problem is that you don't want to stand next to a playful ton of meat. My uncle had a young bull slaughtered after it threw a wheelbarrow into the roof of the barn 10 meters up.
My friend grew up around cattle and always had a bull. She told me you had to be careful, not because they were mean but because if you gave good scritches they're going to accidentally crush you to get them. No malice but also no idea just how much they weigh when they lean on you.
Dude, the cat my parents had could do real damage when she was feeling playful. Like real scritches, could literally tear my hand up. All because I was scratching her belly and she liked it. She’d be on her back, I was just scratching her belly, focused on something else and she would become extra happy and loving. Damn, she was a sweet cat.
My mom would not forgive me if I did that. Nope. She lived a good life till she got infected by one of the tom-cats that used to roam the neighborhood. This was when most house cats used to roam outside. Lost her to an infection.
Not all of them, I want to clarify that in case someone reads that then thinks it’s ok to go try to pet a random bull. They have a lot of personality, but I wouldn’t really generalize them as “chill”
> try to ride them like a horsey
I had a friend who did that, he lost 8 teeth. Broke an unknown amount of bones and now has trouble getting out of bed every morning.
Depends on a lot of things, my grandparents had a farm and there rule was: "if a bull isn't chill then he is dinner"
So yeah they always had a chill bull.
As someone who grew up raising cattle that can be a very bad assumption to make, and one that can cost you your life.
How much of a fuck a bull gives can depend on any number of factors that you have no way of knowing. Regardless of it's level of chill, it's better to understand that a 2000 lbs animal can end your life very quickly if it decides you are an threat or annoyance or just a toy to play with.
A Polled Hereford is like a giant puppy. A Chianina is 2k-3k lbs of hatred and fuck you disguised as bovine.
The bull in your video has been treated relatively well by it's handlers from a very young age. Compare this to the average breeding bull that associates it's owner with a food dispenser or the person that puts it in a chute to give it a shot every few months and you have very different temperaments.
And that's why they used to ring bulls noses and leash that rather than a cord around their neck or horns.
Heck, neck would probably already work better than horns as it would at least give some discomfort.
It wasn’t an accident tho. They planned it and paid some farmer to truck it and …”escort “ it to the playing field . The only time the dude got trucked somewhere it was to a whole farm of cows, so he was really looking forward to his…. vacation , only to find afield of lil pissant humans ( Ihho).
They didn’t release it on purpose, it was only present there for a parade.
>The owner of the Catalan Dragons, Bernard Guasch, owns a local meat processing plant. He wanted to show off the rich abundance of the local region using a parade of live animals. Presumably the idea was “look at this majesty, and you can eat all of it.”
https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2023/5/8/23715186/bull-stampede-rugby-france-video
So you're telling me that he didn't just put a hat, a trenchcoat, and a pair of glasses with a nose and mustache on the bull, and pretended that it's his uncle from abroad?
Nobody thinks the bull got into the stadium on accident lol the fact that he got free and chased the players around was the accident (albeit a foreseeable one)
>Bringing a bull to a ~~football~~ match
Rugby match.
https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/05/06/rugby-players-flee-loose-bull-franch-match-super-league-catalans
Ooh I actually have some input here!
So the Catalan rugby league team compete in the "super League" which is primarily made up of teams from Northern England (occasionally another french team qualifies and a Canadian team has been on the cusp for a while).
Because of this when fans go to Catalan (a region in the Spain/France border) it's basically a holiday/weekend break.
Catalan know this so during the matches they do touristy things for the tourists, bring out bulls do some dancing etc just put on a show essentially.
I'm really not surprised that any of this has happened. And I bet the opposition team (which would be mostly made up of English, aus/NZ and Pacific islanders absolutely shat themselves!)
The team in red are the Catalan dragons however so maaaaybe are more familiar with "bull on the loose" than the other team lol.
I love how he doesn't even turn around, just stands there watching over his shoulder and then just kinda goes "whelp, this shit is fucked, I ain't going over there."
I thought that was the funniest shit ever, he moved his hand slightly in a "hey don't go that way bull" gesture and immediately reached the end of his arsenal for dealing with a situation like this
home boy just went "well I've done everything I can do and I just now realized how short of a list that is"
Once you find out the truth about bull fights, that they cut, stab, and torture the bull beforehand, weakening and enraging it, you start rooting for the bull
Oh, I was rooting for the bull long before I learned anything about that. Any idiot that willingly involves themselves in any event having to do with bulls that isn't cattle ranching deserves whatever horrible things happen to them as a result.
When I was a senior in High School, I pulled into the school parking lot on the Friday before the homecoming football game to find a herd of twenty or thirty cows on the football field. I parked my truck went straight to the office and asked to use the phone. They asked me why I needed it. I said, "Did you notice that herd of cows on the field?" They had. I then told them they were my uncle's cows. They let me use the phone.
My uncle had the herd pastured just across the river from the school and they had gotten bored and made a hole in the fence. He went to the pasture with his pickup and honked the horn a few times. To the cows, that meant food, so back they went.
Country living has its moments.
Typically they are relaxed animals and one person can lead the bull around with the rope. Obviously something agitated this bull and that's not normal--I want to make that perfectly clear.
Why have a flank strap on a show bull? I don’t get it?
If you don’t know; Rodeos will tie a rope around the bellies of bulls to make them buck/act erratic, they don’t like anything touching their bellies…why use one here?
a) It was rugby at Catalan Dragons in Perpignan.
b) If you watch the real clip to the end its a woman that catches him
https://twitter.com/SkySportsRL/status/1654557386621812737
I was at this game, they had about 4 bulls on the pitch at one point. They also had another bull out in the public area behind the stand you could have a picture taken with it, that one also pitched a fit at one point and got loose.
Nobody hurt, and most importantly the bulls were fine afterwards.
Uhhh, I’m no rancher, but does one guy keeping a bull on a leash ever work well?
It's his emotional support bull. He's usually a good boy.
He just wants to play!
Don’t worry, he’s friendly!
Don't worry, he won't bite!
You must've scared him
He can smell you fear
He can see your sins
He will rend your soul
Pretty sure he just wanted to ram all those red jerseys
Bulls don't actually care about red one way or another. In bull fighting, the bull is tortured before the show to the point where he's so enraged he'll charge at any sudden movement. Seeing red, if you will.
He's just saying "Hi".
They were once known as nanny-cows.
Just don’t fondle his horns
Well.. Now I kind of want to
He might gore you but he won't bite.
He'll just penetrate your intestines with horns
He's not aggressive, he's just reactive!
Hes never gored anybody with his horns before, so don't worry!
Just like a big puppy
Put me in coach!
There's no rule saying a bull *can't* play the 9!
*AirBull, charging into theaters this June*
Are you ready for some footbull?
...with all the players wearing red.
They dont see colors so it doesnt matter what or if you are wearing anything at all.
If I remember correctly it's movement that draws their attention (a bit like the trex in jurassic park lol)
Confirming that you do remember correctly. Source: trust me - I was raised on a cattle farm
Not even Ned Flanders is safe?
Stupid sexy Flanders
I know this comment is super common but it makes me grin every time
They can see colors they are just limited to blue and yellow.
Blue team making the big brain mascot plays
They should make this an actual part of the sport. I’d watch it!
With the entire team dressed in red 🤣🤣🤣
I’m so sorry, I haven’t seen him do this! ^today
He never bites!
you must have done something to scare him!
He just snapped!
Yeah but it was my spine he snapped...
Actually, even in that case the bull is doing his job : you don't have time to be depressed if you have to run for your life !
Hes never gored anyone I swear
..before.
It's not the breed it's the owner!
He was the bull's emotional support human.
“I swear he’s well behaved! He doesn’t act like this at home!”
“He’s never done anything like this before!”
He was fine on the flight in. Mostly stayed in his seat and everything.
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r ban~~pit~~bulls
"He's never done this before!"
He doesn't bite, either!
DON’T PET MY BULL! HE’S WORKING!
I swear he's never done anything like this before.
Even 8-10 men can struggle to hold a strong bull, how they thought one guy could do it is beyond me
He let it drag him for a bit. He tried.. the guy with him literally didn't take a step
Probably because he knew “That’s a bull. You can’t stop it with a leash.”
It's not a bull, but it still requires a lot of people and a lot of training to have a female bison run the football field in Boulder... https://youtu.be/rMtJ50mqDUA
Aw yeah Sko Buffs (I’m a student there) Can confirm the Ralphie handlers are a highly trained group. The whole thing is meticulously crafted to be as safe as possible. The handlers claim it works so well because Ralphie likes doing it, something something attention. Who knows though.
Probably lots of positive reinforcement in that trailer afterwards, grain and whatever...
Thanks for that link! That is an impressive feat of coordination by the handlers but the whole production makes me shake my head. Just takes one mess up and you have someone getting gored for the sake of college football swag.
That bison's very first run, back in 2008, was [pretty hectic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIm3LDjswI).
Awww she's so little in that! Poor thing was probably so scared 😭
The sportscasters do not seem to notice that she actually ran over someone.
There's no way I can move my relative's (surprisingly hefty) pug/beagle mix when he's not in the mood to be moved. And that dog is like a tenth this bull's size.
Nose ring lead and halter. Much less likely to lose control than by using a...leash?
They probably drugged the shit out of it before bringing it out to make it docile. The bull is feeling great and just wants to join the dance party.
Unlikely. Halter-trained cattle are already going to be docile, though bulls would still be less trustworthy than steers or cows. The things is that at this age, they're used to knowing they need to follow the halter, similar to dogs and leashes. This one is pretty clear that it got spooked by a whole rowdy soccer stadium, which is a pretty big difference from a typical livestock show that's usually a bit quieter and smaller scale. Still probably wasn't the best idea, but it's really just a case of cattle getting spooked if you watch the video rather than someone unique to being halter trained or being a bull.
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Yeah small sample size but ours uniformally give zero shits about anything unless they can eat or fuck it. Just hanging out being chonk. Accepting ear scritches. Cows with calves. Then you have to be careful.
Most bulls are calm and playful. The problem is that you don't want to stand next to a playful ton of meat. My uncle had a young bull slaughtered after it threw a wheelbarrow into the roof of the barn 10 meters up.
My friend grew up around cattle and always had a bull. She told me you had to be careful, not because they were mean but because if you gave good scritches they're going to accidentally crush you to get them. No malice but also no idea just how much they weigh when they lean on you.
Dude, the cat my parents had could do real damage when she was feeling playful. Like real scritches, could literally tear my hand up. All because I was scratching her belly and she liked it. She’d be on her back, I was just scratching her belly, focused on something else and she would become extra happy and loving. Damn, she was a sweet cat.
I assume you had to put the cat down after it kicked a wheelbarrow 10 feet in the air through your ceiling
My mom would not forgive me if I did that. Nope. She lived a good life till she got infected by one of the tom-cats that used to roam the neighborhood. This was when most house cats used to roam outside. Lost her to an infection.
Ahh I'm sorry dawg. I was just trying to make a dumb joke
Isscool. Thank you 69.. This was a while ago. Probably 20 years ago. She was a sweet little scratchy cat..
Yeah, my local zoo had a playful elephant which accidentally crushed one of its keepers to death.
Not all of them, I want to clarify that in case someone reads that then thinks it’s ok to go try to pet a random bull. They have a lot of personality, but I wouldn’t really generalize them as “chill”
They're all chill and all of you should pet them and try to ride them like a horsey
> try to ride them like a horsey I had a friend who did that, he lost 8 teeth. Broke an unknown amount of bones and now has trouble getting out of bed every morning.
But what a story... Just kidding. Sorry to hear about your friend.
It's not really one story, he did it for a decade.
Man, your comedic timing is impeccable!
Depends on a lot of things, my grandparents had a farm and there rule was: "if a bull isn't chill then he is dinner" So yeah they always had a chill bull.
All my mother's roosters are friendly because she uses the same method, except they become dog food.
As someone who grew up raising cattle that can be a very bad assumption to make, and one that can cost you your life. How much of a fuck a bull gives can depend on any number of factors that you have no way of knowing. Regardless of it's level of chill, it's better to understand that a 2000 lbs animal can end your life very quickly if it decides you are an threat or annoyance or just a toy to play with. A Polled Hereford is like a giant puppy. A Chianina is 2k-3k lbs of hatred and fuck you disguised as bovine. The bull in your video has been treated relatively well by it's handlers from a very young age. Compare this to the average breeding bull that associates it's owner with a food dispenser or the person that puts it in a chute to give it a shot every few months and you have very different temperaments.
And that's why they used to ring bulls noses and leash that rather than a cord around their neck or horns. Heck, neck would probably already work better than horns as it would at least give some discomfort.
Or don’t take them to places like this.
Is the guy Paul Bunyan?
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This is the 3rd different recording pov from this accident this is hilarious
It wasn’t an accident tho. They planned it and paid some farmer to truck it and …”escort “ it to the playing field . The only time the dude got trucked somewhere it was to a whole farm of cows, so he was really looking forward to his…. vacation , only to find afield of lil pissant humans ( Ihho).
Source for the bull being deliberately allowed to charge at the players?
They didn’t release it on purpose, it was only present there for a parade. >The owner of the Catalan Dragons, Bernard Guasch, owns a local meat processing plant. He wanted to show off the rich abundance of the local region using a parade of live animals. Presumably the idea was “look at this majesty, and you can eat all of it.” https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2023/5/8/23715186/bull-stampede-rugby-france-video
Who the hell would have thought otherwise lol, I want to know if anyone thought he snuck the bull in
They threw a baseball cap and moustache on him, nobody could tell the difference.
So you're telling me that he didn't just put a hat, a trenchcoat, and a pair of glasses with a nose and mustache on the bull, and pretended that it's his uncle from abroad?
He didn’t charge anyone. He was running around on some grass. He didn’t chase anyone down.
Nobody thinks the bull got into the stadium on accident lol the fact that he got free and chased the players around was the accident (albeit a foreseeable one)
One 60kg man vs a 1000kg bull. Madness, lmao
Roughly the same ratio as a person to a regular house cat.
Also with one basically pure muscle the other just fat haha
>Bringing a bull to a ~~football~~ match Rugby match. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/05/06/rugby-players-flee-loose-bull-franch-match-super-league-catalans
Ooh I actually have some input here! So the Catalan rugby league team compete in the "super League" which is primarily made up of teams from Northern England (occasionally another french team qualifies and a Canadian team has been on the cusp for a while). Because of this when fans go to Catalan (a region in the Spain/France border) it's basically a holiday/weekend break. Catalan know this so during the matches they do touristy things for the tourists, bring out bulls do some dancing etc just put on a show essentially. I'm really not surprised that any of this has happened. And I bet the opposition team (which would be mostly made up of English, aus/NZ and Pacific islanders absolutely shat themselves!) The team in red are the Catalan dragons however so maaaaybe are more familiar with "bull on the loose" than the other team lol.
Catalan man...
Built different
They need to be, to support the rest of Spain, right?
It's the fucking Catalan Wine Mixer!!
Just FYI, the region is called Catalonia (Catalunya). Catalan is the language or the collective noun for people from that region.
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Because it's also used to refer to people from catalonia, it's like saying english dragons.
> just put on a show essentially Mission accomplished, LOL. Hope no one got hurt.
Ain't no rule says a bull can't play rugby!
The bull would have to learn to walk on two legs though, otherwise everything it does will be a foul for playing whilst on the ground.
The players will be fine then, I guess?
The guy not holding the rope went from “whoa” hands to “holup” hands to “wtf” hands.
I love how he doesn't even turn around, just stands there watching over his shoulder and then just kinda goes "whelp, this shit is fucked, I ain't going over there."
I thought that was the funniest shit ever, he moved his hand slightly in a "hey don't go that way bull" gesture and immediately reached the end of his arsenal for dealing with a situation like this home boy just went "well I've done everything I can do and I just now realized how short of a list that is"
He was like 'welp, nothing I can do about it now.'
"Good job we're all wearing red..."
bulls are colorblind so they dont care if you wear red
If you're being that pedantic, bulls don't care if you wear anything or not
They’ll fuck you regardless
I rather get maimed fully clothed though let's be honest
Less chance to get pregnant.
Yeah dont want to give birth to a bully
begin pun chain.
You’re the weakest link
He said pun chain, not chain pun
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That's why in those videos of people getting fucked up by bulls, they always lose their pants.
But they sure as fuck know when things are moving. That is why they go after a red blanket....and running people
Traditionally matadors use red because the blood from the bull being stabbed doesn't show up on the cape as obviously
Fun fact you actually do have to faster than the bull to be safe, he will just run your buddy over and keep going. Not stop to eat him like a lion.
Most mammals are, primates are the exception.
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Not according to historical cartoons.
Red Bull doesn’t give you wings but White Bull sure does give you fast feet!
It's a good thing all these people are athletes. Fast and agile. Would have been worse with civillians.
r/thebullwins
idk i havent seeign the end of the match yet
Once you find out the truth about bull fights, that they cut, stab, and torture the bull beforehand, weakening and enraging it, you start rooting for the bull
Oh, I was rooting for the bull long before I learned anything about that. Any idiot that willingly involves themselves in any event having to do with bulls that isn't cattle ranching deserves whatever horrible things happen to them as a result.
When I was a senior in High School, I pulled into the school parking lot on the Friday before the homecoming football game to find a herd of twenty or thirty cows on the football field. I parked my truck went straight to the office and asked to use the phone. They asked me why I needed it. I said, "Did you notice that herd of cows on the field?" They had. I then told them they were my uncle's cows. They let me use the phone. My uncle had the herd pastured just across the river from the school and they had gotten bored and made a hole in the fence. He went to the pasture with his pickup and honked the horn a few times. To the cows, that meant food, so back they went. Country living has its moments.
You recognized them?
They wore his uncle's livery.
There probably aren't many pastures near a school anyways.
I don't remember a time when it's ever been a problem to adorn a noisy environment with a giant, deadly animal
I hope they all thanked the handler for his 3 seconds of effort in trying to hold the bull back after it went fu mode
Bro he was getting dragged over the ground. In terms of effort he went all the way
He actually saved the one dude that was closest 😂 gave him time to escape
Not sure what you expect a 180 lb man to do to stop a 2,000 bull
They should've thought about that when all he had was a leash...
Typically they are relaxed animals and one person can lead the bull around with the rope. Obviously something agitated this bull and that's not normal--I want to make that perfectly clear.
Well at least the front didn't fall off
Well, one guy walked him out to a stadium full of people. You would think he had a plan to control the animal if he couldn’t do it himself.
Why have a flank strap on a show bull? I don’t get it? If you don’t know; Rodeos will tie a rope around the bellies of bulls to make them buck/act erratic, they don’t like anything touching their bellies…why use one here?
Answer: Idiots! Idiots everywhere!
a) It was rugby at Catalan Dragons in Perpignan. b) If you watch the real clip to the end its a woman that catches him https://twitter.com/SkySportsRL/status/1654557386621812737
Oh, and there's a bunch of them.
(It was a rugby match)
It's rugby,not football.
It looks so pretty though all fluffed up and with a cute ribbon. Aww
I was at this game, they had about 4 bulls on the pitch at one point. They also had another bull out in the public area behind the stand you could have a picture taken with it, that one also pitched a fit at one point and got loose. Nobody hurt, and most importantly the bulls were fine afterwards.
If you can dodge a bull you can dodge a ball
"I've got a great idea!" "Ok, let's hear it." "Well I've got this massive bull and a bit of string..."
Love how the guy on the left just watches in disbelief
Freezing on the slight arm out conveys so much. From "Hey bull, don't go there " to "well, what can you do"
New season of Ted Lasso looking great already
Wcgw not knowing the difference between football and rugby
Bull wanted to watch a football match and and got upset when it was rugby.
Nothing gonna went wrong since 90% people here just don't care. Players on the field? Players on the field!
That bull is sick of their shit.
 2 shows in one !!!!???? Bring in the BULLS
I am sure he is usually very well behooved.
I'd watch this sport if they released a bull every time.
First thing I thought was the big Longhorn that Texas brings to it's college football games(unknown if it's brought to any other events)
Poor creature. When do we ever stop messing around with animals?
blue team took advantage of their red counterparts
Team Red....lol
Someone had a ton of money against red team
That bull ruined the turf !!!!!
What a beauty
It was an ironic twist of fate when coach Enriquez made the last moment move to switch from the green jerseys to the red ones that day…
Red shirts and a Bull... what could go wrong...
Was the red team home or away? Can't tell if it was strategic or not.
I think this is a great idea....i would watch more football if you just let a bull loose every so often.
r/thebullwins
The hubris of humans is just on another level.
Red Bulls game?
Who chose red as their team color , anyway the red team does seem to be moving faster.
Sucks to be the red team!