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Professional bull rider Ty Pozzobon dies at 25

From Saucy's corner of the world.

Pozzobon, who is a native of Merritt, British Columbia, was a professional bull rider for eight years, according to the Professional Bull Riders website.

The bull rider's death is not being considered suspicious, according to the Herald report, and police are turning over the investigation to the the coroner.

Pozzobon was the 2016 Professional Bull Riders Canada champion and four-time PBR world finalist, the Calgary Sun reported. The cause of his death has not been released.

The article doesn't say whether he died in the saddle.

silverscreenselect wrote:The article doesn't say whether he died in the saddle.

You fucking asshole. Here you are posting about the death of your beloved cat, yet you are then so heartless as to joke about the sudden, mysterious death of a strong, young athlete?

RIP, cowboy!

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:The article doesn't say whether he died in the saddle.

You fucking asshole. Here you are posting about the death of your beloved cat, yet you are then so heartless as to joke about the sudden, mysterious death of a strong, young athlete?

RIP, cowboy!

If I thought for one second that your comment was anything other than manufactured outrage against me I'd apologize.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:The article doesn't say whether he died in the saddle.

You fucking asshole. Here you are posting about the death of your beloved cat, yet you are then so heartless as to joke about the sudden, mysterious death of a strong, young athlete?

RIP, cowboy!

If I thought for one second that your comment was anything other than manufactured outrage against me I'd apologize.

So the fact that your post may have been insensitive and offensive to others doesn't matter? It was, and it should.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

Estonut wrote:You fucking asshole. Here you are posting about the death of your beloved cat, yet you are then so heartless as to joke about the sudden, mysterious death of a strong, young athlete?

RIP, cowboy!

If I thought for one second that your comment was anything other than manufactured outrage against me I'd apologize.

So the fact that your post may have been insensitive and offensive to others doesn't matter? It was, and it should.

ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was out of the country earlier this week and I missed the news. So who shot Janet Reno, just to watch her die?

Making jokes about deceased celebrities isn't exactly new on this bored.

Nor is manufactured outrage about other people's comments.

silverscreenselect wrote: ... manufactured outrage ...

Yes, nothing new about that. See most of your's and Bob#'s posts about Trump.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote: ... manufactured outrage ...

Yes, nothing new about that. See most of your's and Bob#'s posts about Trump.

I don't know about S-cubed, but there's nothing manufactured about my outrage. I've taken similar stands in person. Including some, in my younger days, that got me physically threatened.

Sometimes you've just gotta do the right thing.

As for the original topic of this thread, it's (almost) always sad, of course, when someone dies at such a young age, but I don't understand why this particular person was called to our attention. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote: but I don't understand why this particular person was called to our attention. --Bob

Really? vs. say Monty Irvin? or Mary Jane Ferrell?

Only really famous people or people that you personally are interested in? You are that self-important to make that call?

I feel it more newsworthy when a healthy world champion caliber athlete dies than when a 95 year-old card player who probably only you and maybe one other person on the board has heard of dies. Or a 96 year old baseball player who dies and is only notable because of the color of his skin.

However, I think most people who post such RIPs do so because they have a personal interest in something about that person. And most people here understand, accept, and even cherish the diversity of those interests rather than question why post about a particular person.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote: but I don't understand why this particular person was called to our attention. --Bob

Really? vs. say Monty Irvin? or Mary Jane Ferrell?

Only really famous people or people that you personally are interested in? You are that self-important to make that call?

I feel it more newsworthy when a healthy world champion caliber athlete dies than when a 95 year-old card player who probably only you and maybe one other person on the board has heard of dies. Or a 96 year old baseball player who dies and is only notable because of the color of his skin.

However, I think most people who post such RIPs do so because they have a personal interest in something about that person. And most people here understand, accept, and even cherish the diversity of those interests rather than question why post about a particular person.

I don't think what I wrote was critical, but you seem to be reacting defensively. I doubt it's a surprise to anyone who spends significant time here that I have passionate interests in bridge and baseball, so I think it was easy to understand why I'd find those particular deaths of interest. (Leaving aside the fact that like most players at my local club, I was on a first-name basis with Mary Jane.) I don't recall ever seeing you post about rodeo. Hence, I literally don't understand why you chose to call this particular death to our attention.

And it's Monte Irvin and Mary Jane Farell. --Bob

BackInTex wrote: However, I think most people who post such RIPs do so because they have a personal interest in something about that person.

And most people don't burst out into a rage and call someone a f... asshole for making a joke about the death of someone who they almost certainly didn't know very well if at all. I don't recall any such outrage about joking about Janet Reno's death or the others that have provided grist for jokes here.

No, this was someone looking for an excuse to tear into me.

silverscreenselect wrote:

BackInTex wrote: However, I think most people who post such RIPs do so because they have a personal interest in something about that person.

And most people don't burst out into a rage and call someone a f... asshole for making a joke about the death of someone who they almost certainly didn't know very well if at all. I don't recall any such outrage about joking about Janet Reno's death or the others that have provided grist for jokes here.

No, this was someone looking for an excuse to tear into me.

You are a fucking asshole. Now, you think you know who I know and who I don't know?

It so happens that a friend of the family has a son who is disabled and has responded well to Equine Therapy. We take him to PBR at the Honda Center/Arrowhead Pond every year. We've even taken him to PBR in Vegas on 2 occasions.

We met Ty Pozzobon there and found him to be especially nice and engaging with my friend's son. I was genuinely upset that he had died so suddenly.

You choosing to joke about his death while accepting condolences for a cat demonstrates your hypocrisy at its finest. Fuck off!

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

BackInTex wrote: However, I think most people who post such RIPs do so because they have a personal interest in something about that person.

And most people don't burst out into a rage and call someone a f... asshole for making a joke about the death of someone who they almost certainly didn't know very well if at all. I don't recall any such outrage about joking about Janet Reno's death or the others that have provided grist for jokes here.

No, this was someone looking for an excuse to tear into me.

You are a fucking asshole. Now, you think you know who I know and who I don't know?

It so happens that a friend of the family has a son who is disabled and has responded well to Equine Therapy. We take him to PBR at the Honda Center/Arrowhead Pond every year. We've even taken him to PBR in Vegas on 2 occasions.

We met Ty Pozzobon there and found him to be especially nice and engaging with my friend's son. I was genuinely upset that he had died so suddenly.

You choosing to joke about his death while accepting condolences for a cat demonstrates your hypocrisy at its finest. Fuck off!

First, I wouldn't make a joke about someone who died who I knew had a relationship to someone on this Bored, even a horse's rear end like you.

Second, had you talked in a civil manner, I would have apologized. BiT called me out on this, but he at least did so in a civil manner.

Third, for better or worse, making jokes about dead people (celebrities and otherwise) is something that happens on this Bored on a number of occasions and a whole lot of other places as well, as evidenced by the Janet Reno joke (which wasn't mine). It's not meant maliciously, which I'm sure you know. Yet I can't recall any other instance in which someone jumped on the joker's case with such vehemence as you did. People have been making jokes about "dying in the saddle" since the days of Nelson Rockefeller, and probably a lot longer than that.

BiT posted a picture of a guy with a harpoon in his head with the caption "That's Gonna Leave a Mark." I doubt that man's relatives would have found those comments funny, and I'm sure he wouldn't have posted it had he known they were here. It was intended as a joke, like the Janet Reno joke and like mine.

silverscreenselect wrote:First, I wouldn't make a joke about someone who died who I knew had a relationship to someone on this Bored, even a horse's rear end like you.

Since you don't know who knows who or who admires who, perhaps you shouldn't joke about people's deaths, especially when the bodies are still warm.

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:First, I wouldn't make a joke about someone who died who I knew had a relationship to someone on this Bored, even a horse's rear end like you.

Since you don't know who knows who or who admires who, perhaps you shouldn't joke about people's deaths, especially when the bodies are still warm.

A valid point. And one that could have been made without starting your first post out with "you f... asshole."

silverscreenselect wrote:

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:First, I wouldn't make a joke about someone who died who I knew had a relationship to someone on this Bored, even a horse's rear end like you.

Since you don't know who knows who or who admires who, perhaps you shouldn't joke about people's deaths, especially when the bodies are still warm.

A valid point. And one that could have been made without starting your first post out with "you f... asshole."

Sorry. I was pissed off.

Family say Pozzobon was suffering from concussions, depression when he died

Apparently he took his own life after suffering several concussions as a bull-rider.