An earlier posted question wanted to know if fly fishing was a sport. I want to know if bull fighting in Spain, Mexico or Portugal is a sport or an art. Is “The Running of the Bulls” a game, a tradition or is it a sport? Is the Canadian Calgary Stampede Rodeo a sport or is it games? The animal rights groups say all three are animal cruelty. What’s your comment on all three animal events?
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An earlier posted question wanted to know if fly fishing was a sport. I want to know if bull fighting in Spain, Mexico or Portug
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I think that bullfighting is a sport with a low level of sportsmanship, given that the bull is almost all bled out by the time the matador steps in to finish him off.
The Calgary rodeo is also a sport, but the running of the bulls in Pamplona is a moronic spectacle with great entertainment value where some drunk gets himself trampled or gored to death almost every year.
All are traditions, as Carl noted, but none of them are games.
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Carl, I only asked about three animal events.
1. Bull Fighting
2. The Running of the Bulls
3. Calgary Stampede Rodeo
Guys, check out these photos of bull fighting matadors in Spain that were gored by a bulls. One bull's horn went in under the matador's neck and came through his mouth. These guys are brave or insane.
www.google.com/search?q=spanish+matador+gored+by+bull&rls=com.mic rosoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7ADRA_en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=uni v&sa=X&ei=e3d4UaSRC6yP0QHooYCQBg&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw= 1365&bih=723
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Gary - Thanks for the pictorial. Great photos but a lot of repetition.
The matador's biggest risk is getting his foot stepped on by the bull, and being unable to move away from the sweep of those sharp horns.
I wince at the sight of those body parts being impaled on the horns. Ugh! I feel their pain!
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If curling is a sport, then so are rodeos. It will take a little more convincing for me that bullfighting and the running of the bulls is a sport. Just because someone does something dangerous, crazy, or stupid, doesn't make it a sport.
I have to say, in regards to bullfighting, I have a moral objection to it because the animal's death is not quick. The bull fighter's thrusts are almost never made in an attempt to kill the animal quickly and humanely. As that is not why the crowd is watching.
I do not judge their heritage/traditions. My objection simply prevents me from entering a ring with an angry bull. That and common sense.
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All three are sports, they are spectator sports with huge followings. They all (with the exception of the running of the bulls) require an athelete that knows what they are doing in order to be competative, otherwise they just die. The running of the bulls is a sport that they let anyone partake in, and people that are foolish a lot of the time perish during the event. All by choice.
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Thanks, Pray. I had planned to hunt turkeys with Redfish in Mississippi around now but my daughter is expecting to drop her first calf in early June and she is nervous. I'm all she has left for family, either immediate or extended, so I better stay put and give her a hand. If I went hunting and left her alone, my wife would kick my butt when/if I get to heaven. Wouldn't want to spoil that reunion. Well, not any more than I already have.
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