Once out of the Marine Corps, I continued to ride bulls and joined the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association and kept riding professionally until my wife, Angela, and I had our son Tanner.

That bull was out to get you. After tossing you off, he would do whatever he could to get at you, stomping you if he could.

Their ultimate aim is to reach the national finals in Las Vegas where they can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Ironically, it was back at the Prince William County Fair a couple of years after my first entry that I got hurt the worst.

We were young and had no fear.