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Name: Robert "Bob" Caulfield

Age: 72

Hometown: Houma, Louisiana

Profession: Ranch Owner/ Retired Rodeo Clown

About Me: While his age may shout "Early Boot" or "Goat" Bob interprets that as just another Challenge. A Tried and true Cowboy at heart, Bob started his career early on at Age 15, Bob was breaking bucks with the best of them, earning his first trophy at 17. When he was 25 Robert suffered an injury during one of his rides. The buck he was taming rolled over, and his hand was caught in the rope, causing his hand to break and severely crippling his grip. During his recovery, Bob met a Rehabilitation Nurse named Mary, the two started dating shortly thereafter and two years later were married. Bob got a job working on his Father's farm as a Ranch hand, but always wanted to get back in the Rodeo. Since his grip was too weak to ride, he decided to take up clowning, and found success for the next 35 years, before he retired.

Bob now lives on his father's old ranch, which he has since inherited. He has three sons, one daughter and six grandchildren. His youngest son, who is his only child without a spouse or kids sometimes come around to help him with the chores, but Bob just doesn't feel comfortable sitting around doing nothing and still works hard. He can sometimes be known to be a hard ass when it comes to his work, holding himself to a very high standard, but he doesn't expect the same of others. Despite being tough on his sons, his grandchildren never fail to melt his heart, and are the only ones, aside from his wife that can pull him away from his busy life.

Robert is a tough, hard working, yet soft spoken man. He's very old fashioned, but doesn't see the value of enforcing his lifestyle on others. As long as they don't try to enforce their values on him, he's content. He's a smoker and a big meat eater, and hates it when people try to tell him what's best for his body. He likes to joke that anything can kill you, so you may as well have some choice in how you go.

Due to injuries from his Job, Bob has poor grip in his right hand, a glass eye, an artificial knee, and several prosthetic teeth. He likes to joke about his own injuries and age to let others know he is fully aware of his shortcomings and it's okay if they want to ask about his life.

Strategy: Robert intends to start the game slow, being a quiet player early on. Speaking to others regularly and keeping his tribe strong and healthy. He hope to endear himself by working hard around camp and winning challenges, making himself seem like a major asset to the tribe, while at the same time hoping his age makes them think he won't do well at the merge. He's still very fit, and thinks he can prove to be a major challenge threat despite his age, but knows his shortcomings. He won't volunteer for and long distance running or puzzles during the tribal phase. He wants to endear himself as a sort of father figure to the tribe without becoming their leader. Robert believes he can win through his strong work ethic, and sense of humor.

In terms of alliances, he doesn't want to align with the younger women or older men of his tribe, since he thinks they'd be most likely to single him out for his age, or identify him as a leader, without giving him a chance to prove himself which is a death sentence in the game.

His ideal alliance would be with the younger men or older women, who he feels would respect him and listen to his opinions, without identifying him as their leader or turning the tribe against him. His biggest fear is that he will be outcast without a chance to get to know anybody or even play the game.