“Of course, you have to love any sport in which your very survival depends on clowns.”
— The always wonderful Dan Neil in Cowboy Down, 800 words about professional bull riding, the next NASCAR.
Another line: “It’s the most red-state, culturally conservative, sponsor-friendly milieu in pro athletics—few are the riders who don’t take a knee in a moment of showy post-ride, thank-you-Jesus piety. That is, if they still have a knee.”