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Some people complain that they put up with a lot of "bull" at work, but Al Bryan says the bull he puts up with at his job might get him "run over, stepped on or hooked" on a bad day.
Bryan, a 28 year-old from Winnsboro, has been working as a professional bull fighter — also know as a rodeo clown — for more than 10 years. It's an occupation that's caused him broken bones and, once, half of an ear was torn as he was distracting a raging animal who had bucked a cowboy.
"Every situation is different. Sometimes you can run over to a bull and holler at it to keep the bull rider from getting run over and sometimes you just have to get run over you yourself," Bryan said.
Bryan, who spends 11 months out of the year traveling around the country working at his unique vocation, recently returned from Nevada where he placed in the top five in a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's bull fighters contest at the National Finals Rodeo Bucking Stock Sale.
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