Texas To (Further) Outlaw Cockfighting

The Right Side of Austin reports that HB 1043 will further outlaw cockfighting by closing several loopholes in the law.

The news gives me the excuse to post a video of the greatest song ever written about cockfighting, Tom Russell’s “Gallo del Cielo”:

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One Response to “Texas To (Further) Outlaw Cockfighting”

  1. Dwight Brown says:
    May 11, 2011 at 12:14 PM

    Insert Charles Willeford reference here.

    (You know, I have Cockfighter on DVD. Maybe we should watch it sometime. Though not as part of the ongoing 70’s crime film retrospective, since (outside of the cockfighting itself) it really isn’t a crime film.)

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