Update Blurbs AKA Skeeter Rankin's Biting News (More Oct. 2007 News)

The Heat Is On; Video Changes

This website and apparently others have questioned the length of the final ride at the PBR's grand finale this year and suddenly the You.Tube video has been made private. It's the same video that appeared on the PBR's website complete with a timer that shows 6.5 seconds when the buzzer sounds. The Nov. 5, 2007 update has a link that no longer works, but apparently it was shown more than 50,000 times on You.Tube and who knows how many times on the PBR's own website so it will be hard to "erase" from people's minds.

Sort of like the announcer who droned on about how, "You can't write this kind of stuff in Hollywood. It has to come on fate and fate alone." That's true you can't write this kind of stuff in Hollywood, because you'd get fired for such a lame-see-through-plot.

Oh and to the prankster on www.friedtwinkies.com Skeeter doesn't write like that. Never have and never will but thanks for helping spread the wurd:)

Real Time Versus PBR Time

The television show CSI Las Vegas was filming a portion of one of its episodes during the final round of the 2007 PBR World Finals Sunday. With shows of this type often borrowing from real life we thought why not let the readers here investigate a "crime" that was committed while the actors and cast from the show were on the scene. Happened right under their noses and they didn't catch it, but perhaps you may?

The Crime?

Winning a million dollars in under 8-seconds and creating another made for television moment.

The Evidence

The PBR's own video tape on YouTube.com

Click Here For Justin McBride's 2007 Finals Short Go Round (It's important to watch the whole thing)

Ok

Ok, So You Watched It And Perhaps Didn't Notice Anything?

Click on the link above once more. Now it will be fully downloaded for your computer and you can pause and play the video at your leisure. Approach like you're a CSI and let the evidence tell you the story.

Things a CSI might look into when viewing the video and pushing pause and play.

1. The clock in the left corner.

2. Where the clock is at when the buzzer sounds?

3. Where the champ's free hand already located when the clock reaches 8.0 seconds?

4. How long the "ride" lasts.

5. Reexamine or even take a stop watch to it if you start thinking "computer compression"

At the bottom of the page there are our "CSI" notes concerning  #2, #3, #4 and #5 don't peek until you've done your own investigation.

Up Next...maybe the odds of pulling the same animal twice?

#3--Free Hand is next to riding hand at 7.9-8.0 seconds.

#4--The time the clock starts until the champ starts to pull his rope 8.2-8.6 seconds.

#5--A stop watch started and paused along with the video was tested 10 times and shows the time is accurate and the buzzer sounding between 6.4 and 6.6 seconds. ds

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