NEWS: Say Goodbye to Cockfighting

CULTURE: Say Goodbye to Cockfighting

Seriously, say goodbye.

I love boxing. I love MMA. I love fights in film, comic books and TV. I spend far too much time thinking about whether Spider-Man could beat up Batman (Um, he totally could), or whether Mike Tyson in his prime could’ve pummeled a rhino with a flamethrower horn (depends on the weight class.) However, for some reason, I’ve never been interested in cockfighting.

My reasons might seem obvious, it’s cruel, barbaric, wrong… That really isn’t it, it just sounds kind of boring. I gotta be honest, if one of those roosters could throw an uppercut, I’d be in.

Maybe it’s that they don’t have arms? I could see cheering for a rooster who had feather covered, jacked-up arms that he punched stuff with. I’d cheer even louder if he chomped on a lit cigar while doing it.

Damn. I was planning on continuing to bet on these cockfights which will no longer be happening. If the fights are illegal, wouldn’t gambling on them also be illegal? They might wanna look into outlawing “chewing with your mouth open” at cockfights, too, just in case.

I’m not sure it’s like that at all. Isn't video poker popular? Is he advocating putting the roosters into little headgears?

That sounds about right, actually. Again, my problem isn’t moral, it’s that these fights sound uninteresting. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that there’s far too much “pecking.” Can’t we give one of them a gun? Can we watch them live together in a house for a few months and really get on each other’s nerves? Something!

Dispose of? Well, if they’re gonna kill ‘em anyway… Might as well let them go out with some sort of a championship at stake. At the very least, a participant’s ribbon.

Now we're getting somewhere. I hope those riders are clad in some sort of cool looking armor. And wielding those gladiator-style weighted nets.

Got it. Just make sure your winnings add up to more than $500.

You know, I think I'll check out a few fights after all. Maybe I can teach them kung fu or something... August 15 doesn’t leave me much time. See you in Louisiana!

cock fighting.. thats like playing swords right?

are there ring girls at cockfights? like little busty hens that blow the winner after he wins the match?

bahahahaha

There used to be, until the more prominent ones were implicated in the latest, "Chickies Gone Wild," where they were popping out eggs left and right. They never quite recovered from that debacle.

I personally think they were just henpecked by the establishment.

Ba dum chich.

how about comic con, then a road trip eastbound and down before the curtain falls on all the cocks?

I feel like there might be a lot of dick jokes in this thread, I don't know why...

I found a clip of a cockfight, and it is boring, and at a level of sophistication lower than pro-wrestling...

After watching those women try to see who could get their card closer to the camera than the other for 3 minutes, I was thinking, "Forget the women, bring on the cocks." ... This is a sad day for me.

But wow, was that boring and silly. People will bet on anything.

I bet you they wouldn't.

cuz you're here?

sorry, that was inappropriate...

...and so it begins. ha

This pisses me off. I am a Louisiana native and this is typical of people putting pressure on local legislators who don't even fucking live around here. The is just as much cock fighting in East Texas where its illegal. Louisiana has a unique culture that should be preserved, not trampled on by PETA fanatics. Has anyone ever stopped to think that the cocks fight naturally? Hello... To me this is just about naziesque bungholes trying to screw with everyone else's fun. What if you did this all your life and its your sole means of support? OK, we are people, some good and some bad is in all of us. Why do some of us feel like we have to float through the atmosphere without affecting the world around us? Life is short and brutish. Get over it. Fight poverty and ignorance and racism, not cockfighting!!!

Cocks are people to. Have you hugged a cock today?

regardless of natural fights being waged amongst these animals, do we have any real right to enforce it? chickens don't raise us for food OR fights-- and don't give me any guff about our being the superior species. luck of the draw has more to do with life than we as the "superior" species will allow to be perceived.
as for poverty, ignorance and racism, the world could have taken steps, financially or otherwise, ages ago, but it seems to be just a little more interested in voyeur television and what celebrities throw in their rubbish bins.
come on-- are we REALLY this bored?

They don't have guns and can't throw an uppercut, but I heard they make razor sharp attachments for their spurs. Not cool. Now monkeys with switchblades that's something I can get behind.

First: Not gonna happen. They'll be around long after we're all gone.

Second: Yep, they're pretty brutal, which in itself is barbaric.

Third: They're not that boring, especially when money is involved. And much less when I win

I honestly didn't know there was any place in the US where this was still legal.

So I guess in nature they're bred to fight and tie razors on their ankles? Give me a fucking break. Roosters fight for dominance in the wild but that is a far cry from strapping razor blades on them, breeding them specifically for fighting, and then throwing them in the ring so a bunch of assholes can bet on them. It really doesn't get much more barbaric... except of course for illegal dog fights...

and yes, I avoided using the term "asshole hillbilly" for your benefit since you are a native. Good thing not everyone in Louisiana has your attitude

My Alma Mater

Nor me. That's pretty amazing to hear.

I was taken to a fight in the Phiippines once. I wish I had not gone, and that I could have just said to the person who took me "I really hate this."

But, in a roundabout way, it was a family thing where we were being given great hospitality, and the guy in question bred cocks for fighting. Kind of hard to say what I wished I could have said.

I know, right?