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Ok....this is from the latest sporting news (8/5/05 pg. 18)...bare w/me as I had to retype it.

Title:..to wrestle with BOARDOM?
By: Channing Crowder
Dolphins rookie linebacker

The first time I went out to wrestle wild boars, one ran me up a tree.​
It was a pretty big one and she just ran at me, so I climbed into a tree and had to stay there for 35, 40 minutes until hse left. All my friends walked away and left me there, and they were just laughing about it. I wasn't scared; I thought it was funny, too.​
It's usually not too hard to find the boars; they're all around in the wilderness in southern Georgia. We take along a bunch of hound dogs, maybe 10 or so, to chase the boards out of the bushes. We set the dogs loose, and when we hear them barking, we go find 'em.​
When you wrestle a boar, you try to grab hold of it by its back legs and flip it over on its back, then tie the legs together. You have to be careful with their tusks, though. I've never gotten into trouble when wrestling them, but one time I saw a boar rip the flesh off a guy's forearm.​
If the boards are the regular size, about 150 to 200 pounds, it doesn't take long to flip 'em over once you grab hold of 'em. Maybe five minutes. But they can get pretty big -- up to 1,200 pounds. The biggest one we ever got was about 500 pounds. It took four guys to bring that one down. We had to have someone keep hitting the boar in the side and legs, just running right into the boar's flanks with his shoulders. Once he got the boar down, everybody piled on top of it.​
I didn't go often during the football season, but in the offseason during college, we'd go maybe four, five, six times a week. What I like most about it is the surprise. It's a little like fishing: You never know if you're going to get a little baby one or a much bigger guy. I love the thrill of it.​
It's tougher to wrestle down a boar than it is to bring down a running back. If you miss a running back, there's probably a linebacker or someone behind you to bring him down. If you miss a boar, he's coming right back at you. And running backs don't try to bite you.​
 
jbond said:
Ok....this is from the latest sporting news (8/5/05 pg. 18)...bare w/me as I had to retype it.

Title:..to wrestle with BOARDOM?
By: Channing Crowder
Dolphins rookie linebacker


The first time I went out to wrestle wild boars, one ran me up a tree.​
It was a pretty big one and she just ran at me, so I climbed into a tree and had to stay there for 35, 40 minutes until hse left. All my friends walked away and left me there, and they were just laughing about it. I wasn't scared; I thought it was funny, too.​
It's usually not too hard to find the boars; they're all around in the wilderness in southern Georgia. We take along a bunch of hound dogs, maybe 10 or so, to chase the boards out of the bushes. We set the dogs loose, and when we hear them barking, we go find 'em.​
When you wrestle a boar, you try to grab hold of it by its back legs and flip it over on its back, then tie the legs together. You have to be careful with their tusks, though. I've never gotten into trouble when wrestling them, but one time I saw a boar rip the flesh off a guy's forearm.​
If the boards are the regular size, about 150 to 200 pounds, it doesn't take long to flip 'em over once you grab hold of 'em. Maybe five minutes. But they can get pretty big -- up to 1,200 pounds. The biggest one we ever got was about 500 pounds. It took four guys to bring that one down. We had to have someone keep hitting the boar in the side and legs, just running right into the boar's flanks with his shoulders. Once he got the boar down, everybody piled on top of it.​
I didn't go often during the football season, but in the offseason during college, we'd go maybe four, five, six times a week. What I like most about it is the surprise. It's a little like fishing: You never know if you're going to get a little baby one or a much bigger guy. I love the thrill of it.​
It's tougher to wrestle down a boar than it is to bring down a running back. If you miss a running back, there's probably a linebacker or someone behind you to bring him down. If you miss a boar, he's coming right back at you. And running backs don't try to bite you.​
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Ah, the craziness. Don't we love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
That is odd to say the least. I've never heard of such a thing.
 
sounds a bit more dangerous than "cow-tipping" or "calf-roping" no? I just loved the fact that for fun he and his friends take on wild boars with tusks weighing up to 500 pounds and try to tackle then for fun!
 
Another black mark for Georgia. Boar wrestling, **** fighting, we got it all in the grand ole GA.
 
jbond said:
Ok....this is from the latest sporting news (8/5/05 pg. 18)...bare w/me as I had to retype it.

Title:..to wrestle with BOARDOM?
By: Channing Crowder
Dolphins rookie linebacker

The first time I went out to wrestle wild boars, one ran me up a tree.​
It was a pretty big one and she just ran at me, so I climbed into a tree and had to stay there for 35, 40 minutes until hse left. All my friends walked away and left me there, and they were just laughing about it. I wasn't scared; I thought it was funny, too.​
It's usually not too hard to find the boars; they're all around in the wilderness in southern Georgia. We take along a bunch of hound dogs, maybe 10 or so, to chase the boards out of the bushes. We set the dogs loose, and when we hear them barking, we go find 'em.​
When you wrestle a boar, you try to grab hold of it by its back legs and flip it over on its back, then tie the legs together. You have to be careful with their tusks, though. I've never gotten into trouble when wrestling them, but one time I saw a boar rip the flesh off a guy's forearm.​
If the boards are the regular size, about 150 to 200 pounds, it doesn't take long to flip 'em over once you grab hold of 'em. Maybe five minutes. But they can get pretty big -- up to 1,200 pounds. The biggest one we ever got was about 500 pounds. It took four guys to bring that one down. We had to have someone keep hitting the boar in the side and legs, just running right into the boar's flanks with his shoulders. Once he got the boar down, everybody piled on top of it.​
I didn't go often during the football season, but in the offseason during college, we'd go maybe four, five, six times a week. What I like most about it is the surprise. It's a little like fishing: You never know if you're going to get a little baby one or a much bigger guy. I love the thrill of it.​
It's tougher to wrestle down a boar than it is to bring down a running back. If you miss a running back, there's probably a linebacker or someone behind you to bring him down. If you miss a boar, he's coming right back at you. And running backs don't try to bite you.​
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i think channing crowder's wrestling with psychosis and delusional impulse.
 
I love it lol.

The best LB on our High School football team is a relativley small 160 lb guy who looks like hed get killed in games. But this kid wrestles gators and rams and everything else and it shows on the field.
 
bump for the morning crew (instead of us 3rd shifters) as I think this is a good story to read....
 
MadLib said:
That is odd to say the least. I've never heard of such a thing.
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Where I'm from, lots of people do this. They get up early in the morning and go hog huntin'. The dogs have to be tough too, because the bad hogs can really hurt them. Most times they catch them and take them back with them. Then they either sell them to the cane cutters (if they're still alive) or eat them themselves.

It's a southern thing.

I never liked this stuff. I'm not a hunter.
 
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