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Neither Greco-Roman, nor WWF, alligator wrestlers are actually trying to do something more akin to calf-roping: Catch an alligator from a pool or pit and bind its jaws shut with rope.
Boing Boing 2009
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The NFL has banned Jared Allen's post-sack calf-roping routine because his knee touches the ...
Scott Swanay: 10 Things We Learned From NFL Week 4 Scott Swanay 2010
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The NFL has banned Jared Allen's post-sack calf-roping routine because his knee touches the ground while he performs it.
Scott Swanay: 10 Things We Learned From NFL Week 4 Scott Swanay 2010
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The NFL has banned Jared Allen's post-sack calf-roping routine because his knee touches the ground while he performs it.
Scott Swanay: 10 Things We Learned From NFL Week 4 Scott Swanay 2010
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Finally, we moved on to the stables, where farmhands were showing off their calf-roping and branding skills and giving riding lessons.
Thai Noon 2008
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Finally, we moved on to the stables, where farmhands were showing off their calf-roping and branding skills and giving riding lessons.
Thai Noon 2008
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She was a butch old dyke who had grown up on a ranch in Montana but wasn't allowed to compete in rodeos because they were only for guys, with the exception of one event, calf-roping I believe.
Archive 2008-01-01 sfmike 2008
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She was a butch old dyke who had grown up on a ranch in Montana but wasn't allowed to compete in rodeos because they were only for guys, with the exception of one event, calf-roping I believe.
Butch Women and Open Space at City Hall sfmike 2008
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And children now learn to ride at summer pony camp while their parents attend calf-roping clinics.
July 2005 2005
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In the work-a-day world of the cowboy, calf-roping did not entail the rump-sliding stops of the horse or the calf being jerked to the ground when it hit the end of the rope, as the rodeos depicted.
This Calder Sky Janet Dailey 1981
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