Aron Baynes' tweet to Tiago Splitter

[Uriel]

[Mugen]

[mando6599]

And? Maybe they're cowboy and rodeo junkies, so what? That's cool to me!

[BackHome]

Yeah it was Splitters first time to go to the Rodeo and bought his first pair of boots and hat.

[RD2191]

[Brunodf]

[moisaenz]

an australian and a brazilian go to the rodeo.

[mkurts]

I thought it was to get Splitter to grow some real balls

[Nero5]

That would be too subtle.
What is good is clearly they are friends off the court enough not to feel insulted or threatened by the ribbing. Bodes well for team harmony - which seems to have picked up a bit with a few wins

[Twisted_Dawg]

I thought it was to get Splitter to grow some real balls

Then why was he looking at the steers?

[Brazil]

Brazilians are crazy about rodeos fwiw

[PingPong]

The southern brazilian states like to do something similar to the 'running of the bulls', common in Spain. Besides the NGO against animal cruelty protests, they keep doing it.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Dude, Australians love Cowboys. Out in the Outback, you would find a lot of cowboys and ranchers. And there are many Cowboys in Central and Latin America. Rodeo was first used by Latin Americans to mean rounding up cattle.

And just a history lesson, the Spanish were the first cowboys if you ever wonder why so many Cowboy related things had Spanish names. Tejanos might seem funny to other nationalities because it looks like a bunch of Mexicans trying to be Cowboys. Vaqueros were the original Cowboys in the Americas. I know this because my family were Rancheros for hundreds of years in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

[PingPong]

Dude, Australians love Cowboys. Out in the Outback, you would find a lot of cowboys and ranchers. And there are many Cowboys in Central and Latin America. Rodeo was first used by Latin Americans to mean rounding up cattle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

Brazil and Australia are big players in the meat global market. Australia is the largest exporter of beef cattle and Brazil has the biggest cattle herd with over 200 million heads and both countries exchange the #1 and 2 places as the biggest meat exporters. Brazil has a strong rodeo league. Finally, Brazil is the biggest U.S. rival when it comes to bull riding. Personally, I don't like it because it's so redneck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Bull_Riders

Edit: Tiago's state is the biggest pork meat producer. Just put Tiago chasing pigs to train his footwork.

[Namundy]

Lol @ Obama420's post in this: http://instagram.com/p/zLe62Vs_iu/

"Dam BRUH save some chicks for us."

[hater]

Brokeback Mountain

[buttsR4rebounding]

Dude, Australians love Cowboys. Out in the Outback, you would find a lot of cowboys and ranchers. And there are many Cowboys in Central and Latin America. Rodeo was first used by Latin Americans to mean rounding up cattle.

And just a history lesson, the Spanish were the first cowboys if you ever wonder why so many Cowboy related things had Spanish names. Tejanos might seem funny to other nationalities because it looks like a bunch of Mexicans trying to be Cowboys. Vaqueros were the original Cowboys in the Americas. I know this because my family were Rancheros for hundreds of years in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

Don't try to confuse the issue with facts. That doesn't fly in this forum.

[RD2191]

Dude, Australians love Cowboys. Out in the Outback, you would find a lot of cowboys and ranchers. And there are many Cowboys in Central and Latin America. Rodeo was first used by Latin Americans to mean rounding up cattle.

And just a history lesson, the Spanish were the first cowboys if you ever wonder why so many Cowboy related things had Spanish names. Tejanos might seem funny to other nationalities because it looks like a bunch of Mexicans trying to be Cowboys. Vaqueros were the original Cowboys in the Americas. I know this because my family were Rancheros for hundreds of years in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

Yup, yup, and yup.

[Spur|n|Austin]

I wish I knew how to quit you, Aron.

[Budkin]

I wish I knew how to quit you, Aron.

[wildcardX]

yippie ki-yay!!

[Nero5]

Dude, Australians love Cowboys. Out in the Outback, you would find a lot of cowboys and ranchers. And there are many Cowboys in Central and Latin America. Rodeo was first used by Latin Americans to mean rounding up cattle.

And just a history lesson, the Spanish were the first cowboys if you ever wonder why so many Cowboy related things had Spanish names. Tejanos might seem funny to other nationalities because it looks like a bunch of Mexicans trying to be Cowboys. Vaqueros were the original Cowboys in the Americas. I know this because my family were Rancheros for hundreds of years in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

LOL Australian cowboys! Not in this century and barely in the last. Stockmen and drovers, cowboys not so much.

[MateoNeygro]

This is awesome. I like that they are friends enough to hit up the rodeo together.

[PingPong]

LOL Australian cowboys! Not in this century and barely in the last. Stockmen and drovers, cowboys not so much.

Is that San Antonio Rodeo an PBR event at least?

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

LOL Australian cowboys! Not in this century and barely in the last. Stockmen and drovers, cowboys not so much.

That is basically verbatim what Cowboys are. The Australian terminology is just different but it the same thing.

Cowboys is an American term, Stockmen is the English/Australian term, Vaquero/Gauchos is the Spanish/Latin American term. In New Zealand, they refer to cattle ranchers as Shepherds.

But if you ask an American to describe the people that work cattle/horses in Australians, Kiwis, Mexicans, and South Americans, they all would say they are Cowboys or Ranchers. I refer to them as Cowboys because that is what these men are.