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.

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

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.

I was hooked. It was something I loved.

We are at a low. But I wouldn't say it's a low where we are tossing in the towel and giving up and saying there's nothing else we can do. It's not like that. It's a low like where the next day can't come quick enough.

Tossing away a piece of paper is clearly taboo.