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2000 NFR SEVENTH PERFORMANCE RESULTSPen: The QuackersDuck spinners. Actually not--they are better bulls than that. They are the bulls that most rodeos are won on. The bulls that had already been out once came back and were a lot better. It was pretty tough on the other bulls... being here since the day after Thanksgiving.... they really have to want to buck. If you could bring back the three that didn’t perform well and buck them tonight I just know they’d buck better. Rode 7-15
Judges Order: Overstreet Knowles Davis HortonCody Hancock U19 Passport Franklin 92 23-22-22-23Had a completely different day than he did with Fred in the 3rd performance. Went into Cody’s hand and still made him hump up to ride him. Good bull. Lee Akin 311 Why Not Minot H. Vold 88 22-21-21-22Went into Lee’s hand and had a really good day. Akin rode him as good as he can be ridden. Watch this guy--he’s making a move. Philip Elkins 17 Panda Broken Arrow 87 21-22-21-21A really solid bull ride. Bull went both ways. Coulda won a round at any of the big winter rodeos. Rob Bell 69 Titanic Catelina 24-22-22-23 7.2Looking at these bull scores this might’ve been the go round if Rob hadn’t got slammed right there at the end. Tough bull to get by going away from your hand. I thought the judges missed this bull the first time out even though Corey split the go round. CAT needs to keep this bull--it’s his ticket to ride on the NFR train. Fred Boettcher A10 El Nino Five Star 86 20-20-22-23You could tell this little red bull is used to slinging Puerto Ricans and Cubans. He made a couple of serious rounds then jumped out of but stayed close and still bucked hard. Imagine coming all the way here from the Southern tip of Florida... by yourself... and then stand in a pen by yourself for two weeks. No one to talk to. Probably only speaks Cuban anyway. This bull did really good. I think you saw just a little of what this guy can do last night. Give him a bull with lots of action and it is really good watching. I was at Canby Oregon a couple of years ago when he rode 207 Spittin Image on one of his ranker days when he just didn’t spin.... little sucker bucked. I only wish John Quintana wasn’t in Australia. Maybe the greatest RANK bull rider ever, John was also great teacher of advanced students. Had no patience unless you could ride pretty good already. If he and Fred hung out for a week Boettcher would win the World the very next year (might anyway). John could make an average bull rider NFR capable and make a good bull rider great. Fred’s already great..... he’d only get more consistent. Greg Potter 581 Diamond Cutter (Lisa’s Pet) Classic (Lovelace) 84 21-21-20-20I thought this was a really good ride. If it had been nearer the end of the event he might’ve won second place. Being toward the last to go is an advantage here--particularly in the horse riding events (as you must’ve noticed by now). The horse event guys are pretty upset about the judging (usually are anyway). I’d imagine that they’ll go back to having only 2 judges next year. The problem with using 4 is that the guys farther out in the arena have lousy angles. They’d be better off sitting in the audience. If the horse events change then the NFRC will change the bull riding too. That’s okay by me as long as they let the bull riders vote on who they want. No more of this just assigning people. All the guys judging it this year are really good it’s just a matter of principle with me. Robey Condra 7X Crossfire Classic 73 18-18-18 RR opt-19Dud. The average is likely to decide the world championship so getting another one riddenis important. Horton gave a reride option but it takes two judges in order to get one. Me... I thought he had one coming but then I’m baised. It would’ve been a moot point in this case-- Robey would’ve declined because he is second in the average. In the PBR Cody Lambert picks all the bulls and he also judges so if something doesn’t buck like he expected he has the power to make it right. I’m thinking it only takes one judge to give a reride over there. If I had that same power there probably would have been at least 15 more rerides offered. Fowler and Condra and Tipton if he’da made it in this perf alone. If the NFR was the PBR Finals--I’d bet there could’ve been 45--maybe even more. They have better bulls (more depth) and they also don’t pay the contractor if a reride is awarded on the animal. But with that many rerides we could’ve had several three hour performances. I dare anyone to try to sit in one of those hard seats for 3 hours. Talk about putting your butt to sleep--your hair even gets numb. In World War II--if Germans and Japanese could’ve used chairs like these instead of the more elaborate means of making guys talk. They mighta won the war. Dan Wolfe P57 Wanna Dance Diamond G/Gilbert 22-20-21-22 1.8Looked like the red bull was going to buck. Dang it. That happens sometimes but not often to this guy. Guess he just doesn’t like to dance. Shane Drury 40 Exodus Harper/Morgan/Auger 23-23-23-23 4.4Black bull looked really juicy but I’m thinking it was the same day he had with Potter in the third round he just got Shane before he could jump out o it. I’d take Drury 8 out of 10 times on this bull. Good bull though. Josh O’Byrne 231 Mad Max Smith 20-20-21-20 DQRode him but back of the chute judge (Jade) got him for a slap. Looks like it probably cost him 6th and possibly even some average money. I had the same angle and it also looked to me like Josh probably touched a horn tip. And I mean barely tapped it. Probably ought to dust it for finger prints. I don’t know whether Butch saw it (should have had a better angle) but the 4 judges in the arena couldn’t be sure. Incidental contact... didn’t help to ride the bull but a touch never-the-less. The way I think they teach it to the judges is that if the rider is siting pretty much straight up (not out over a bull) and the bull’s momentum hits the rider--they let it slide. However, if a rider’s arm is coming down (his momentum) and there is contact--it’s a DQ. The problem is that to ride anything that bucks very hard you have to be down and out over the front end. A bull that has any head action at all is going to hit your free hand or arm. It’s a tough call to make--it’s a reflex call--you see it--you toss the flag. Like a knock down in the bull doggin. No time to think. The day you can’t make that call you should hang it up. Jesse Bail 610 High Voltage Beutler/Gaylord 23-23-21-22 4.2Rhett’s calf looked pretty juicy. Jesse never made the corner in good shape. No catching up to this little bugger unless he’s going into your hand and you PUMP baby PUMP and it can’t be coming in the back door either. Even into your hand it’s almost impossible to catch up if he beats you around the corner. Cory Check L41 White Line Fever Powder River (Franzen) 21-21-22-21 3.1Interesting that Chris was a point higher. This bull is from his part of the country and he’s seen him and knows there is more difficulty than meets the eye. Fatso is real smart. You have to stay behind a little bit and let him think he’s about to buck you off. If you ever make any kind of a big move--he’ll feel you and go the other way. Like playing chess (with a fat guy). I think Cory is at a disadvantage on fat bulls. See.... as Check will tell you (over and over and over again) he is known as a babe magnet... every one a 9++ or 10. All petite or models. Even had an actress once but she mysteriously disappeared. Anyway Texans, on the other hand, are none too picky about their dating. Since puberty hit um they have been crawling on big, fat, hairy, smelly things. Danell Tipton 2 Western Way Sutton 19-19-19-19 7.6Worst day I’ve ever seen this bull have. This bull just never settled in here at the NFR. Everyday when I’d walk through the pens you could tell he was nervous--up set. Couldn’t handle being by himself. Same deal on the Cowtown bull that Kagan got a reride on. I guess when they unloaded him at Bennie and Rhett’s ranch he was in with the other bulls and I’m guessing the went to fighting. Here he got penned separately. Washed out like you see some race horses do. I know why Danell bucked off... he was so disappointed that the bull wasn’t bucking that he lost his concentration. He really wants to win and he’s out of the average so he needs buckers. Gibbs and Knowles got us again. They have to be the WORST secret agents of all time. Bet they’ve been up hunting pheasants and geese with Steve Sutton. In their new alligator boots. Perks. Kagan Sirett 521 Windmill Beutler/Gaylord 23-22-23-23 4.8Now that’s the bull I saw at Greeley and the MGM. Best any of Bennie’s bulls have bucked here since 1991. It seems like about a thousand head. I thought Kagan had him knocked out too. Kagan’s about the same size as another great Canadian Bull Rider was.... Brian Claypool. Brian was also a profound teacher. His methodology was different than Quintana's. I think body type dictates variations in style. Claypool was very mechanical... he could figure things out... the physics of them. For example, he’d ridden bareback horses in high school but hadn’t much in the pros. He calls me up one day in late August and tells me that he’d been watching Joe Alexander--and he’d figured out the bareback riding. Got him a riggin and won $17,000 in six weeks then quit. Didn’t like it. (who would?) As a bull riding teacher, he took two young guys who had been on less than 20 bulls and made them Canadian Finalists the following year. For shorter riders, his theories were totally correct. Wish Kagan and the rest of those young Canadians could’ve known him. I miss him. One of Brian’s best friends is on the back of the chutes (right hand delivery). Real tall guy.... glasses. Wally Badgett and outstanding western cartoonist or funologist or whatever they call themselves.... a former sheriff... and a former NFR BULL RIDER. One of the best human beings I ever met. Barney Brehmer’s oldest son was named after Brian. He was also real close to John Bland. All NFR bull riders. NFR... that’s something that will always be on a guy’s resume. Tyler Fowler 171 PrimeTime Flying U/Rosser 77 18-19-18-19Dang it... the little bull didn’t get it together until right at the end. Still.... he won a little and picked up some ground in the average. Best Bull Buckle: 40 Exodus Harper/Morgan/Auger(Thank Tyler--he got this bull to the NFR) Bull Scores: I think I better explain something. In the old days when I judged the NFR bull riding in OKC (came in a covered wagon) the judges tried to keep their scores relative to the entire NFR herd. So if K66 was a 23 then and they rode him for a score of 92... then they might’ve won this round on U19 with an 80. Three points difference in the two bulls. Based on that, there would have been some rounds won here this year with 75’s and 76’s. The reason for doing that is to keep the average (aggregate) in order. The problem with it is that you get low scores and that doesn’t help sell this rodeo. So now what we ask the judges to do is to just try to place each pen like it’s a one header. Use enough points to get them placed correctly and get them high enough to satisfy the audience. Therefore a nice bull in a gassy spinner pen might score 88 stock points because they had to get high in order to create enough room to place guys because they ride so many of them. And yet the best bull the rankest pen might be only marked an 88. BIG difference in the two bulls even though the stock scores don’t indicate it. If you put that 88 point spinner in a rank pen.... he might only be an 80 pointer--because he would be compared to ranker bulls. Not sure I explained that very well. Bull Scores:*The tie breaker must be the bull that has the highest individual judge’s score.
After 7th Performance: Looks to me like to beat Cody they are going to have to beat him in the last three go rounds. Not only is he one bull ahead in the average--he has enough points that even if he bucks off one-- he’ll still be winning the average. They ought to fly in Ted Nuce’s mom. She could figure all this out in her head--in less than 30 seconds. Mom’s KNOW. World Standings: NFR Winnings: Average: (8)
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