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| WNFR 2002 Reports |
| Probullstats - December, 2002 |
WNFR Dispatch ID# 28 -- December 8th, 2002,
11:07:56
Round 1 Results:
Pen of bulls: The A TEAM - All Pro Offensive
Unit
Pretty much the best pattern buckers. Most of you probably saw
it on ESPN 2. Looked decent in person. In most instances the guys
who drew bulls that turned back into their hands—rode-- and
the others didn’t. Ground looked good to me. Some years the
first perf it has been either loose and shifty or too wet. One of
the biggest and far too often neglected areas of bull performance
is ground conditions. If it’s brown it’s usually good
enough for most stock contractors. Oh… sure they’ll
bitch and moan if something doesn’t buck or gets crippled
but they never do anything about bad ground BEFORE hand when it
will make a difference.
Judges Score Order: Jordon-Davis-Knowles-Overstreet. Thought the
markings were pretty high based how the bulls that got ridden--bucked.
But then judges -- like Crack Ho’s -- are just gonna get high.
Junkies. Thought they got it right. Must’ve been an accident.
They used their ride markings to get guys placed.
I didn’t make any notes and was being bothered by contractors
and was still ticked off after meeting with a couple of BIG rodeo
committees who thought their regular rodeo bulls were good enough
for a televised bull riding—and I didn’t… cuz
they aren’t/ weren’t and WON’T be.
Rodeo Committees are just Street Gangs who got old. They get here
and hang around all the lying dog stock contractors who don’t
want any competing contractors at THEIR rodeos—blowing smoke
up each others BIG SMELLY butts-- and they get to drinking or have
a four day hangover and there’s 39 of them (all dressed like
crosses between a Gilly’s Line Dancer and Gay Ostriches (I
apologize to gay people because if I was a Rump Ranger being compared
to those rodeo committee punks would offend me). Anyway… they’re
here… and they get bold. They were pretty close to being on
the wrong end of a karate movie. They’re woulda been feathers,
bolo ties, and white wing-tipped boots scattered for a hundred miles.
See in this rodeo deal—why it is SO SCREWED UP—is because
people who could and should make a difference—either just
nod their heads in agreement to pure B.S.—or say YES way to
often. Anyone says NO and they run and cry to their political insiders
and compromises get made or someone gets replaced. Pure chicken***t
B.S.
So anyway… I was PO’ed when I got to the bull riding.
Sometimes I drink when I’m angry and sometimes a get angry
when I drink. I had one stock contractor imply that I might have
an anger management problem. He may have had a point. On the other
hand as I pointed out HE may have had a goat for a mother and an
ugly management problem. Oh… by the way… just for the
record –the calf roping is by far the best event at the NFR.
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Zack Brown 731 Bo Dippin Andrews
89 22-22-22-22. Just turned back and spun into Zack’s hand.
BO RING… but a good ride.
Myron Duarte 101 Snuff King Andrews
87 21-22-22-21. Couple of Wild horse leaps and then into Myron’s
mitt. Good ride. BO RING.
Beau Hill 877 Explosive Jacket Big Bend
86 21-21-20-22 Was the first re ride bull. Turned back right there
into Beau’s hand and was pretty good. Beau originally had
301 Cash of Growney’s. Said he was fine when he got here but
when it was his exercise day (think they get a few minutes every
other day) he was limping. That’s the second consecutive year
that we haven’t been able to use this bull. Of course the
rodeo has/will have PAID the owner $10,000.
Cody Hancock -75 MR. USA Diamond G
82 18-21-19-21. Two of the four judges got it right. The bull didn’t
buck. It was one of those deals where you HAVE TO hit the bull score
and put the points on the ride side of it. 22 ride on an 18-19 bull.
Sure he might have been difficult to stay on but he didn’t
perform (BUCK) well enough to mark him the same as some of the other
bulls. I remember one year when Pacific Bell kinked his tail and
RAN. Two judges ran up their reride option flags. One other judge
had the bull a 21. And one had the him marked a 23E. But with the
great history that Cody and this great little bull have together—the
great things they’ve achieved I was proud of Cody that he
didn’t break concentration and fall off—because that
bull was still trying hard to get out from under him.
Blue Stone VC8 Hurricane Smith
76 18-19-18-19. Almost parked it. Wish Boyd wouldn’t been
trumpeting the accolades of VC8 being a former Bucking Bull of the
Year. I guess it would be forgivable if he was saying it BEFORE
the ride but at the 5 second mark when you see the bull spinning
so slow that you could go to the bathroom and do #1 and #2 by the
time he makes one round—to say it then? But then announcers
here have a lot on their minds. Assuming that announcer’s
actually HAVE minds.
Jessie Bail 826 Splinter Growney
21-22-22-22 2.75. Looked like he was going to buck hard. Turned
back away from Jessie’s hand… Jessie either made too
big a move or the bull hesitated and dropped him in the well.
Vince Stanton 50 Hammertime Bad Company
23+ 23 23 25 As I recall it was into Vince’s hand but was
really strong. They didn’t record a time but it had to be
5 seconds or so. This is and has been a really outstanding little
bull. Think he won third for bull of the year. Or maybe second.
I see that one judge 25’ed this bull. You just can’t
do THAT on THIS bull. Even though you justify it by trying to get
the spread in your bulls right—that you want people to know
that you know that bull was a three point better bull than the one’s
that you loaded up by marking them a 22—and the bull was a
point better than #10 of Bailey’s and you want the bull to
win what he was supposed to in the stock awards -- a 25 point bull
better be a BMF.
24+ would suffice even though he was really a legitimate 23+.
Jason Legler 844 Rambler Kesler
22-21-22-22 4.63. This is a trying little bull. Can’t remember
but I’m thinking he went away from Jason’s hand.
Colby Yates 101 Border Patrol Flying Five
21-22-21-23 6.2. I thought this little bull was bucking hard. He
wasn’t spinning but he was bucking hard. I thought I saw the
bull’s back foot actually kick Colby’s foot and blew
him out of there. Mighta been wrong. I was standing at the recreational
beverage dispenser and (being a Hollywood guy now)—was being
distracted by several inebriated, silicone enhanced Bambas who thought
I was Brad Pitt.
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Weather Report…
A few drops of rain fell this morning. Hardly noticeable. The only
reason I could tell was what the stock contractors were wearing
when I was out looking at all these crippled bulls – the ones
that were perfectly healthy when the left home but somehow have
developed infirmities once they got here. Anyway… Ranch Headquarters,
realizing that we have way too many stock contractors, put condoms
in the stock contractor’s gift packs. Everyone else got binoculars
but it would have been a waste on a group who can only see their
OWN self. But anyway… several of the good ol’ boys were
wearing the condoms as hat covers. A couple of others didn’t
have hats so they just used them like stocking caps.
Bully…
My wife likes nearly everyone (except me). She even thinks MC and
Bennie are great guys. She really does. I don’t recall me
EVER being that naïve.
My wife who is a highly dedicated Christian woman… one with
a kind heart (for everyone except me) who’s works a job and
also is a horse woman… rides futurity colts and stuff. Growing
up a military brat she couldn’t have horses because they moved
so often. When she was sixteen instead of a car she wanted a horse—and
got one back in Pennsylvania and then while on vacation--after seeing
the barrel race at Cheyenne… she loaded up and moved to Colorado
and got a job on a ranch and met some nice barrel racing people
who gave her a barrel prospect. She trained him… got her WPRA
card (back then like the RCA two card holders could just sign for
you) and placed at her first rodeo—Denver. A real Disney Channel
story.
The next week her horse cut his throat in his stall where she was
boarding him.
But anyway… she loves horses… particularly race horses…
Quarter horse race horses. She know every blood line and reads and
reads… and watches TVG diligently… and calls important
horse people and talks horses for hours.
A few years ago she loaded up and went to a horse sale in OKC.
She actually got more than 200 horses out of their stalls and looked
at them. 16 hour days—trying to find THE ONE. She did her
homework… we really couldn’t afford to spend as much
as it would take but she’s an optimist and she prays all day
long… not on the knees type praying but having a running conversation
with GOD type praying. If my wife’s awake—she’s
talking to Jesus (which is better than her talking to me. Wonder
if he just nods a lot and says uh huh?)
The morning of the last day she found a nice gelding… really
nice gelding and she had several people look at him and she talked
to the agent… and after she borrowed every cent she could—she
was lucky enough to get him bought through the ring. I have never
seen her as happy as when the van unloaded that gelding. What a
great horse. Big kind eye … great body… not a blemish
on him….. so intelligent. A wonderful horse. He was a Bully
Bullion so naturally she named him “Bully”. Barrel racers
tend to give their horses cutesy poo names like little bunnies or
something. I have OTHER names for each of ours.
She let him rest a couple of days then rode him lightly. What a
great horse. The following day she goes to get him and he can’t
walk on his left front foot. Haul him to Littleton… x rays….
$1,000 dollar bill… vets figured that they’d broke him
down in his second race…. but kept shooting him up and injecting
him and probably match raced him. Surgery not possible. Great horse.
Whatever they’d shot him with before the sale took a few days
to wear off even after a 700 mile trip. He told her that there are
drugs out there that can do that. The things some people will do
for money.
So me… having an anger management problem call the Okie SOB
agent … then the Okie SOB sale manager… who I’m
sure slept together with the Okie SOB sale vet sandwiched in between
them. Got no where… small print and SALE B.S. “should
have had him x rayed before hand”… a lesson to be learned
by a kind woman who STILL believes people are good and honest. So
she cried for a few more days. Not crying because of the money but
out of compassion for such a great horse…. and disappointment
in mankind. Of course…. Mr. Anger Management—ME--I’m
on to the legal strategies. Got me a mean-assed Okie SOB lawyer
who knows the horse business. Things are looking good… he’s
going to teach a bunch sorry SOB’s a lesson… a hard
lesson. A lesson that needs to be taught. I was even looking at
new pick-up brochures. Leather interior… surround sound….
four door dually of course.
But then…….
My wife up and calls this agent… and she FORGIVES HIM.
And tells him that she will pray for him everyday until GOD touches
his heart and he gets saved. And she does. No more crying. Not one
tear. She figured that GOD had her buy that crippled horse so he
could use her to get that sorry SOB saved. I had a bit of a problem
following that windee trail but heck—at least she quit bawling.
Got no way of telling if the divine plan worked for the Okie SOB
but Bully was given to a little ranch girl who’s dad is a
retired vet so they keep him comfortable. My wife even tells GOD
that she figures that he’d given her that very first barrel
horse so she owned him one.
Sorry SOB--ME… I am STILL deducting that monthly crippled
horse credit line payment from my wife’s tithe. I figure maybe
we’ll settle up later. Or maybe not…. depending if GOD
might happen to reside in Oklahoma instead of Heaven.
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Bryan Richardson J8 Bear Paw Brookman
23-23-21-23. 2.99 (seemed longer than that to me) He was a solid
22+. This is a really cool little black muley that tries hard and
had enough ability to buck almost anyone off. Robert Bowers. Beau
Hill, and Butch Kirby touted this bull hard to me. They were sure
right. Really good bull. Wish we had 99 more of him here. (99 more
of THEM and 99 less stock contractors.
Justin Andrade - 10 Super Cool - Bailey
24-24-24-24 4.5. The best bull out. Not a 24 but then they were
high on the others so to let this bull win what he was supposed
to in the nightly stock awards ($750,$500,$250) –he needed
to be a 24. Wild horsed a couple and went into his hand. Thought
it was going to work out but then Justin ended up with both feet
on one side and the wreck was on.
Jason McClain - 77 Yellow Jacket - Flying Five
The old veteran had a really good day—away from Jason’s
hand. I’m sure Jason thought he was in the right place but
wasn’t in there far enough… got raised up. Heard they
are retiring the Jacket here but then you always hear stuff like
that then see a bull get hauled way past his prime. Not sure how
ethics run with chain smokers.
Johnny Chavez - 620 Shyster - Growney
21-23-23-22. 3.66. Had a major roll and John slapped him. Couldn’t
tell much.
Robey Condra - 566 Chewbacca - Beard
23-23-23+-23 5.26. Looked like the go round for a long time there
but this bull bucked really good. Then mauled Robbie. Highlight
film type mauling.
B.J. Schumacher - A18 Alligator - Salt River
20-21-21-22 2.59. Bull stumbled a little and turned back way from
B.J.’s hand.
Hard to tell much.
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Unused Rerides: (we’ll bring them back in a Sunday or Monday)
T7 Psycho - Three Hills
666 Shiver & Shake - Kesler
The bull rider and bull/owner/hauler (who cares) of the go round
winning ride each get buckles at the Gold Coast.
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Bulls Awards:
They add the four judge’s scores together to decide the placings.
One of the reserve officials stands on the announcer’s platform
and breaks any ties.
Think it pays $750, $500, $250. Guess they figure they can buy
their own damned buckle (plus with those big ol’ guts no one
could see them anyways). Wonder why that Super Rich Communist #@*tard
Contractor Union doesn’t spring for a high marked animal buckle
each night? Probably hard to think of stuff with your head stuffed
inside
a tight fitting condom.
10 Super Cool Bailey 96
50 Hammertime Bad Co 94
566 Chewbacca Beard 92
77 Yellow Jacket Flying 5 90
J8 Dippin Bear Paw Brookman 89
620 Shyster Growney 88
731 Bo Dippin Andrews 88
826 Splinter Growney 87
101 Border Patrol Flying 5 87
844 Rambler Kesler 87
A18 Alligator Salt River 85
101 Snuf King Andrews 85
877 Explosive JacketBig Bend 84
-75 MR. USA Diamond G 79
VC8 Hurricane Smith 74
WNFR Dispatch ID# 29 -- December 8th, 2002, 07:48:04
Round 2 Results:
Pen of bulls: The A TEAM - All Pro DEFENSIVE Unit
The most difficult bulls here. Like rumble…. Smash and Crash…
Cream Your Wheat type of bulls. There were some great bull rides
tonight. These scores were legitimate.
I gotta tell you—this is a great bunch of guys. They aren’t
in over their heads… they aren’t afraid… they
are intimidated by the NFR… there is a group of ballsy kids
who remind me of the Tuff-Cody-Lane-Clint-Jim early years.
THE BIG NEWS HERE…
Is that Justin Andrade is out with what might be a career ending
spinal cord problem similar to the one that ended Tuff’s career.
Guess it happened in the practice pen… or may have been there
all along…. but in the practice pen recently Justin experienced
numbness in one arm. The first perf here—he had numbness in
BOTH.
They’ve scheduled an MRI for this morning and had him off
food and water last night (he was in the locker room and feeling
pretty good—bummed of course) so I figure they’re gonna
operate today. Same surgeon that Tuff had. Great cutter. I was there
when they were operating on Tuff… think it was like 7 hours.
Scary deal then—scary deal--now.
Justin is really feeling down but it was a blessing that the spinal
cord problem was discovered here instead of in po dunk Farmerville.
Like Tuff… for several years every time this kid got on he
was at HIGH risk of being paralyzed and never knew it.
Judges Score Order: Knowles--Overstreet--Davis—Jordon. You’d
think at the world’s greatest rodeo they coulda found some
better looking guys. Ugly suckers.
Vince Stanton - 10 - Freckles - Salt River - $92,386.23 - 93/1
93 23-24-23-22. Great bull ride. Lo Rider Freck…. Didn’t
spin… just going in a tight circle but BUCKING. Always moving
away from Vince (and going away from his hand) and lots of forward
movement. This was a great bull ride that only bull riders could
fully appreciate.
Myron Duarte K78 Unforgiven Big Bend $101,307.81 178/2
91 22-22-21-23. 2002 Bucking Bull of the Year didn’t trun
back but he sure bucked. I don’t know how anyone coulda 21’ed
this bull. Up and coming bull riders need to spend some time studying
this perfect bull ride. Getting back out over the front end every
jump… text book John Quintana type stuff.
Jason McClain 856 Tahonta Big Bend $71,301.71 91/1
91 22-23-22-22. This big yellow whale fills up a chute and does
anything he can to not leave any room for your legs. Turned back
into Jason’s hand and spun. Really good bull ride.
Bryan Richardson 90 Vigilante Franklin $67,4476.42 86/1
86 21-22-22-21. From my vantage point on the back of the chutes…
and taking into consideration that Bryan rode early in the round…
and what they’d marked bulls the previous night—I thought
they were too low on this ride. Figured that they might of hits
Bryan’s ride—and they did a little. After watching it
on the telecast he sure won what he was supposed to but I don’t
think you can 21 this bull… he’s more difficult than
that. But… the judges are just trying to get their spread
in their bulls in EACH PEN… so in that regard—this bull
mighta been a 20. We need half points on stock scores—for
ALL judges.
Jesse Bail 86 Boo Boo Smith $89,648.14 0/2
23-22-22-22 6.54 Wild little spotted bull went away from Jessie’s
hand and was moving forward in it. Jesse’s trying too hard—but
then no one tries harder4 than Jessie Bail—EVERY TIME HE NODS.
I was in the bullfighter/clown locker room last night (like being
in a monkey cage… smells… scratching their butts…
throwing poop—all that stuff) and Jessie came in and sat down.
I think he was seeking a place of rest away from all those people
telling how important it was for a riding event guy to win the All
Around Championship. Walking down the hall—he gets stopped
every 5 feet. He wasn’t in the clowns room for 2 minutes and
some stock contractor (I assume that was it was—big and smelled
bad---who just wanted to wish him good luck on winning that All
Around title. Of course the barrel man threw a gob of poop at the
guy—who being a stock contractor—thought it was a breath
mint. For a stock contractor monkey poop breath probably IS an improvement.
Zack Brown K66 Rapid Fire Big Bend - $76,002.00 89/1
24-23-23-21+ 4.2. Bull was a handful…. Made one round then
left it hard… really smart.
This $20 French toast is COLD.
Beau Hill S15 Ace of Hearts Corey and Horst $80,944.65 86/1
23-23+-23-23 4.29 Shoot if you want to mark one on difficulty this
sucker was a 28+. It was like watching a high speed chess match
but one player outweighed the other by 1650 pounds. SUMO chess.
Every reaction Beau would make Ace would immediately counter. He
wins second in the bull of the night award if I’m doing the
picking.
Cody Hancock 238 Lightning Strike Western - $75,253.83 82/1
Think this bull won second or third in the bull of the year balloting.
I’ve never thought he kicked enough. Cody’s got a bad
groin and this bull is strong. Turned back into his hand but was
in too tight to the chutes and backed up a little and hung Cody
up.
Bull Fighters….
Jo Jo Boomthegardner and Darrell Doofenbackerbacker. These are
GREAT bull fighters. Great, great, great, … not the most handsome
(there is a good reason clowns wear makeup (ugly or cross dressers).
After last night’s NFR opening (which was great). Elvis may
in fact come back. I just don’t think he’ll stand for
a gay Elvis impersonator.
This is really a NEW NFR. Lasers… 21st century music….
Cool big screen action montages… they had a heck of an opening.
Except for the gay Elvis. Flint needs to work on his skippy, dippy
walk or he’ll have Rump Rangers hanging all over him. Several
Team Ropers have been following him around already.
Blue Stone 744 High Tide Beutler & Son $67,771.12 76/1
23-23-22-22 2.47. I thought this bull really bucked. High jumps
then went away from Blue’s hand… a good bucking bull.
Bennie was dressed in basic brown… kinda reminded me of a
UPS truck with a scarf.
Jason Legler CL Clayton’s Pet Salt River - $70,995.13 0/2
23-24-22-21. This famous bull (supposedly no saled at the PBR finals
for $60-70,000)
guess that was right after the spaceship landed…. but anyway
he’s big and going away from your hand you have to get out
over the front end and stay down. He lifted Jason up and out of
there.
Colby Yates C71 Outlaw Calgary $64,773.18 0/2
25-24-24-25 1.67. Think this bull won the best of the PBR finals
award. He’s big and he bucks hard. Guess if you want to 25
a bull after seeing less than 2 seconds of him—this would
be a bull you could do it on.
Weather Report…
Clear and sunny but a water truck dumped a load down near the pens.
I noticed several stock contractors were wearing condoms over their
boots. Some still had them on as hat covers. Some had both. Nice
outfits. Probably be the new thing for rodeo committees next year
since several that I’ve met here are real *ickheads.
Justin Andrade 825 Ugly Growney - $62,874.66 0/1 out
Visible injury. Apparently named after his owner. Heard this was
the second best bull at the PBR finals. Will only get one trip here
so won’t have a chance at the NFR bull cash awards.
Johnny Chavez 66 A Prime Dip 4L $60,742.65 0/2
22-22-20-22. 6.9. You don’t often see any big humped Brahmers
anymore but this is a pretty bull that jumped and kicked like a
bareback horse. If you’re riding him right you have to be
out over him and his hump hits you in the chest and slides you off
your rope. Speaking of ropes—Johnny rode him 4 seconds with
only the tail of his rope.
Robey Condra 44 Sugar Bear Corey and Horst $60,480.28 0/2
23-21-24-21+ 3.87. The bull riders, secret agents, and judges a
spoke to during the selection process were really high on this bull.
He must’ve had an off day here because to me he was a walking
on his front end hunk of Gorilla Crap. Besides that Robbie never
could get a decent seat on the leaning derelict.
B.J. Schumacher G21 Durango Mesquite $60,034.03 0/2
23-22-24-23 ?. Was just going to circle in front of the chutes.
Has some drop.
If this bull is named correctly he must eat a lot… not handle
very well… and his windows don’t roll up.
Rerides:
825 of Growney’s became the first reride when he was VI’ed.
233 Wild Thing Rosser
13 Triple H Kerby
43 Bandito Guidry
Bulls Awards:
They add the four judge’s scores together to decide the placings.
One of the reserve officials stands on the announcer’s platform
and breaks any ties. Think it pays $750, $500, $250.
C71 Outlaw Calgary 97
10 Freckles Salt River 92 won second
S15 Ace of Hearts Corey & Horst 92 won third
K66 Rapid Fire Big Bend 91
G21 Durango Mesquite 91
744 High Tide Beutler & Son 90
CL Clayton’s Pet Salt River 90
238 Lightning Strike Western 90
44 Sugar Bear Corey & Horst 89
856 Tahonta Big Bend 89
86 Boo Boo Smith 89
K78 Unforgiven Big Bend 88
66 Prime Dip 4L 86
90 Vigilante Franklin 86
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