PBR (Professional Bull Riders) playing cards
PBR (Professional Bull Riders) licensed playing cards, USA, 2005
This pack was published in 2005 by Rix Products LLC as an official licensed product of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders), based in Pueblo, Colorado.
The aces are ornate, with the PBR logo centred against the suit represented, while the jacks show the name of a “famous” bull (e.g. Coyote, Blackjack, Little Yellow Jacket, Sling Blade) and the kings depict some champion riders (Mike Lee, Adriano Moraes, Justin McBride). The pip cards are standard and the 2 jokers are rodeo clowns. The cards are contained in a metal tin rather than the usual tuck box. See the tin►
Above: PBR (Professional Bull Riders) playing cards published in 2005 by Rix Products LLC.
For information from the website: PBR was founded in 1992 by a group of 20 visionary bull riders who broke away from the traditional rodeo scene in the belief bull riding could succeed as a standalone sport. PBR has since transformed into one of the fastest-growing sports in America and further afield. More than 500 bull riders from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico hold PBR memberships and compete in more than 200 bull riding events each year on televised programmes in each of these countries. The PBR World Finals is the richest bull riding event on the planet, with the season champion receiving the golden World Championship buckle and $1 million bonus.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022 • Contact
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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