Posted on 07/13/2013 4:37:26 PM PDT by BBell
Longhorn-adorned Big Easy Rollergirls wielding plastic bats pursued throngs of racers bedecked in the same white clothing and red sashes traditionally worn by the San Fermín corredors in Pamplona, Spain. The scene, however, was the Warehouse District on Saturday morning.
Rob Morgan, dressed as a matador and waving a red cloth, lured a beautiful rollerskating "bull" past him during El Encierro, aka Running of the Bulls, at the annual festival of San Fermin in Nueva Orleans.
A sea of red and white figures packed Convention Center Boulevard. Some held Spanish flags.
In addition to the local rollergirls, other roller derby leagues from across the country descended on New Orleans for the event – not wanting to miss the opportunity to play the bull.
But the New Orleans event – started in 2007 and mimicking the 8 a.m. start time of the Pamplona one also held on Saturday – was, as you would expect, much safer than the harrowing event across the Atlantic.
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I hear there’s an American kid in Pamplona that is going to have a great story assuming he lives.
Well after a running of these bulls, there wouldn’t be a lot of Obama left on the ground afterwards for somebody to clean up.
Reminds me of Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin as TWO WILD AND CRAZY GUYS.
“No one can run from the tanks like us!”
If you catch one, do you get to keep it?
These are roller derby girls. I don’t know if you would want to keep one.
You've never listened to Jim Croce...
Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evenin'
With a girl I saw on a bar room T.V. screen
Well I was just gettin' ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye and I put it back
And I ordered myself a couple o' more shots and beers
The night that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Round and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman
That anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama
With a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle
And she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Her fans call her "Tuffy"
But all her buddies called her "Spike"
You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Round and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman
That anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
Well I could not help it
But to fall in love
With this heavy-duty woman
I been speakin' of
Things looked kind of bad
Until the day she skated into my life
Well she might be nasty
She might be fat
But I never met a person
Who would tell her that
She's my big blonde bomber
My heavy handed Hackensack mama
You know that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
Round and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o' woman
That anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round, go round and round
Round and round
Decadence.
Catch and release. Don’t bring home to mother.
sounds like a plan
The decadence festival is at the end of August. I’ve never made it to that one either.
I’d hit it. I’d hit it. I’d hit it. I’d hit it. I’d hit it. I’d hit it.
In New Orleans, roller derby girls with bats hit you!
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