Please, No Bear Wrestling in Alabama
Laws don't write themselves. A dedicated legislator has to recognize a pressing need for a law, write the law up in the form of a bill, submit the bill to various committees and debates where it's scrutinized and massaged, and finally put the bill to a vote. If legislators pass the bill, it can finally be signed into law. So, creating a law is a long, difficult process -- which means bear wrestling must have been a really big problem in Alabama. In fact, that's how "Bear" Bryant, a man who would become the legendary University of Alabama football coach, earned his nickname.
Now you might be thinking bear wrestling is outlawed by extension of another law, maybe one barring cruelty to animals or animal fighting of any kind -- be it dog, rooster or bear -- but no. Alabama devotes an entire section of its legal code to bear wrestling-related offenses, which make everything from training a bear to wrestle to charging admission to a bear wrestling match a class B felony.
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