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NFR 2001 Fifth
Performance Pen of Bulls:
Getting on these bulls is like a date with Billy Jo. Solid
performers… good sports… do pretty much the same thing every time….no
hassles… no strings attached… Yep, it's SPIN CITY. Good ones, though. Might ride all 15. Who wins what is hard to tell. A lot will depend on how the judges see things. And that also can make you nervous but in their case -- though like Billy Jo, they too will screw a guy --they are sure UNpredictable. Something about beady eyes that must blur a guy's vision. That and peeking out butt checks. But if a bull isn't spinning a guy should keep riding because the judges are going to be so sick of spinners and so wadded-up that they'll be looking for something different. It's always interesting that about this point in the NFR people start thinking about who's gonna win the world. It's too early. Guys who have been hot can get cold and vice versa. We still have tonight's pen of bulls, tomorrows night, then half of Thursdays before we get through the first run through the bulls. Not a lot has changed on the top end other than guys catching up. A $34,000 average can be the biggeee but only if the other contenders can't stay close. 4 or 5 bulls will place in the average.
Jesse Bail -- 320 Spanish Eyes -- Thomas Taylor 1. $103,323.05 -- NFR: $23,772.90 -- 264 on 3---3rd in Average Jumped from 6th to 1st. Haven't seen this young bull but Myron was 92 on him at Waco and he was a 22 22+ with Lonnie Carpenter there. When Taylor-Made rolled into Cheyenne this year he brought a bunch of good bulls. A bunch of good bulls. Everything we brought here of his {5 head) are really young. He had several other older NFR veterans but we chose to give some new burgers a chance. We took a chance on youth. If two bulls are close to being equal I think it benefits the rodeo business to bring a different one here even though you are SURE about the NFR veteran. I think what has happened some years in the horse events is that they've worried so much about getting embarrassed (or not winning anything) if a new one didn't buck that they've let the bottom end of the NFR herds get stale, predictable, and BORING. Like a stock contractor--you must keep rolling new ones in every year. The NFR serves a lot broader purpose than determining World Championships. It is the glue that holds this Association together but it also CAN BE the grease that makes the machine run. There are a lot more contestants who need looking after than just the 15 who come here. You WILL NEVER be able to objectively pick the best 100 head in each event. HAS NEVER EVER HAPPENED. The smartest thing for us to do is to pick the 100 head that will work here but also do the most for your event the following year (s). We try and do it as much as possible. Some folks you can't help because they won't help themselves. This isn't the Salvation Army. Get off your @ss and do something rather than whining and trying for B.S (I have a card and put on rodeos so I DESERVE to have an animal at the Worlds Greatest Rodeo) stock selection rules. You want a gift? Put on a Santa Suit, get a pot and a bell and go shake the sucker in front of a Wal-Mart. The bull riders will stop by and make some deposits in your pot.
Lee Akin -- 444 Squirt -- Burns 2. $101,142.12 -- NFR: $11,486.60 -- 172 on 2--6/7 th in average Red bull that likes to compete. You can tell he LIKES bucking. A couple of solid circuit system riders have been over 90 on him this year and he spent quite a bit of time on the PBR Touring Pro Circuit. Hall loaded up his bulls and got them exposure and experience this year and it paid off. It didn't hurt that half the NFR qualifiers are from the Mountain Goat Circuit either. This bull CAN however have a tricky turn back. Several NFR types haven't got him started.
Vince Stanton -- 608 Flip Flop -- Beutler @ Son 3. $96,877.50 -- NFR: $0 -- 0-4 Guess Vince and the Beutlers are going to draw each other until they win a go round buckle. After Lawton I figured that this young bull should probably not come here but the bull riders like him. They said... "Look... Bennie and Rhett have lots of good rodeos and they bring us good bulls to get on. Sure ... . maybe this little guy should've been rested more but give Flip a rest and we promise he won't be an NFR FLOP. Honest. Trust us." But as they walked away I think I mighta heard some pieces of Slick Bennie's silver jingling in their pockets. Come September Bennie turns USED CAR SALESMAN nice. Same wardrobe too. Has Ben ever called you on the telephone? For me... my wife answers the phone and I think it must be someone nice... they visit and visit and visit... then all of a sudden I get handed the phone... She whispers... "It's Bennie Beutler... he's soooooo nice." So there I am with no ax or shovel within arm's reach .. and I have to talk to BEN. Blah blah blah... how you doin?... .blah... blah... blah... weather... . blah... blah... blah... you're doing a good job... blah... blah... blah... . my bulls have really been bucking... . blah... blah... blah... . blah ... .blah blah... .(like Michael Jordon dribbling around getting ready to drive for a slam dunk)... blah... blah... blah... . really wasn't calling for any reason... .. BUT...! When you hear the "but" you better bend over and grab your ankles cuz you're fixin to take it up the BUTT. Ben put the O in Okie.
Rob Bell -- 615 Banner Bandit -- Franzen 3. $96,648.33 -- NFR: $5,670.60 -- 65 on 1--10th This is a good bull. At Pocatello Judd Paul Leffew made a really exciting ride on him. In Dallas he wasn't nearly as good in fact wasn't good at all in the top 4 but then again Jim Gay's little Johnny Rotten that wowed everyone last night -- didn't buck in the top four round either. 6 days a week Rob is a lot better than this bull but I don't know if this bull is a 7th day Adventist and Tuesday for bulls is the 7th day. Franzen has a good herd of bulls for the size of rodeos he has and the type of contestants he normally attracts. Might place on most of them. His contestant numbers stay at a workable level even during August when many contractors suffer from having nearly no players.
In the bull riding, a small rodeo type contractor has to be careful because if his herd is too rank -- they'll quit entering. Some of our biggest rodeo contractors don't have strong enough herds or real uneven herds and their rodeos suffer with lots of turn-outs. Other contractors load certain performances and every one enters for those perfs because that is the only time you are likely to WIN anything. So if 40 bronc riders enter and 30 of them enter for Saturday Night and you're only running 12's so you'll have 18 guys who get dumped into other performances. Hopefully they aren't already up somewhere else. Several contractors have really suffered from low numbers of horse riders at their rodeos. Part of the problem is geographic. Some areas have no bronc riders. Part of it depends on how much amie competition they have. Part of it is in the bareback riding you try to spread 50 or so riders over 700 rodeos... can't be done. Some rodeos have as many as 20% phantom entries in the riding events. By phantom I mean -- NOT REAL -- they are just names on a program. They aren't coming. They CAN'T -- they are up somewhere else. Right off you jump and say "The little SOB's are double entering." That doesn't happen very often. What IS happening is that guys are not getting traded and DUMPED into conflicts. They still have to pay their entry fees so often times they'll burn one of their 125 rodeos and allow stock to be drawn -- hoping that one out of two will be good enough to go get on. But maybe BOTH are good enough so one good one stands in a chute. Think one year at North Platte they had 7 NFR horses TO'ed in one performance. Conflicted with Reno. Saturday night performance. The last performance -- the performance you try to impress the ticket buyers so they'll come back next year. Think the Cow Palace had one bareback rider the Final Saturday night. $10,000 added rodeo. I'd have to believe that some of those TO's were conflicts. I know the Wilderness Circuit Finals was going on. And KC had a short go that night. Other rodeos had their best horses out that Saturday Night. In the bull riding we were really screwed because the Cow Palace (which only had 70 bull riders) had to have a progressive go round on Saturday -- right on top of the KC short go. Lots of good animals stood alone in chutes on the last weekend of the season. Not only is that wasted expense (trucking, feed, etc) but it also diluted the product because some of the best animals didn't perform. Its tough being a circuit contestant and getting on an average animal when there are a half a dozen good sonofabucks standing in a pen right behind you. But MY problem with phantom entries and conflict turn outs is that we are defrauding the public. We are putting names on rodeo contestant lists and programs that we KNOW going in may not be there -- in some instances we know they absolutely will not be there. They can't be two places at once. That is CONSUMER FRAUD. (I watch lawyer shows so I am an expert). Okay... I also watch cartoons. I therefore know that Coyotes can't catch Road Runners and you can throw a coyote off a cliff a thousand times and not really hurt him other than bend his ears a little. And Daffy Duck has a detachable bill. But anyway a rule was passed so that contestants can no longer double enter but when it came time for Ranch Headquarters to say "look... this conflict deal isn't RIGHT. We gotta stop it" They said they couldn't. I say they WOULDN'T. I call B.S. on that. I'm sure people in high places are gonna get pissed about me taking this public but I'm not wrong. Just a few more episodes of watching the PRACTICE and a GENUINE ON-LINE internet law degree from BahamasUniversity.com, and I'll be ready to represent the contestants in a class action suit against RH for putting them up at two places at one time and making them pay entry fees. I'll win a multi-million dollar lawsuit (keep a third)... look really good on Court TV... have several surgically enhanced para (and barely) legals and have my own HIT TV SERIES the following year. Everybody Loves McDonaldguyver or something. Or, you could fix the problem and I can go back to my cartoons. Bet someone would like to toss ME off a cliff. I'm part Coyote. I know my ears bend and I have fleas anyway. I know it would take a lot of work and changing software programming and stuff but it's something that needs to get done before guys start entering the fourth of July run. I'm the boss -- do it.
Mike Moore -- U19 Passport -- Franklin 5. $95,612.21 -- NFR: $16,430.20 -- 178 on 2---4th Wow... . NO CAN DO was not a nice boy last night... he was a DOO DOO boy. Well, as BAD as that bull was Passport is GOOD. If all the bulls in Canada were like this one we'd trade them for North Dakota for Alberta. Probably should anyway. Maybe throw a couple of draft picks, Eddie Longfellow, Abby Stapleman, and Florida in to sweeten the deal. No we won't take QUEERbec instead of Alberta.. But knowing those Canadians they'd try to send us Doug Vold. Might be a deal breaker. Some deals you have to just walk away from. (Like the Olympics).
Blue Stone -- 889 Boy Friend -- Thomas Taylor 6. $93,747.58 -- NFR: $31,297.35 -- 269 on 3--2nd This guy won't turn loose. Bucked Danell off at Waco but didn't buck with Lee Akin. BUT at Pueblo he bucked off Jesse Bail and was marked a 23 22+. If Blue just keeps taking them one at a time there is no telling how good things can get.
Philip Elkins -- 514 Real Deal -- Kish 7. $91,751.29 -- NFR: $24,499.90 -- 341 on 4---1st Really good bull that's been here several times. He's good enough to win a round in a pen of bulls like this. Was marked a 23-22 in 5.3 seconds bucking off Mike Moore in Canby. Thinking that Philip has ridden him here before. He really IS the REAL DEAL.
You know, 15 contestants is a few too many if you've got a skinny butt parked in a hard $50 seat with no alcohol or Preparation H to ease your pain. Maybe after each perf we ought to continue on with a telecast and have Ty Murray be the host of Rodeo's WEAKEST LINK show. The contestants in each event could vote someone off. Bet THAT would make some guy's start riding better (or worse). Or we could do it like SURVIVOR where to get immunity you have to win the go round. That would be good. I get asked (A LOT) who's the best bull rider I've ever seen. You know, it would take a long time to go through my list... talk about WINNERS, COMPETITORS, ABILITY. I really can't remember George Paul... Quintana rode lots of rank bulls... lots of names cross my mind in no particular order... . names like Donnie... Tuff... Denny... Lane... Terry Don... Adriano... Troy... John Davis ... Norman... and uh... JIM SHARP The funny thing is that every one of them had good NFR's and bad NFR's. Felt all the same things that these guys are feelin.
Cody Hancock -- 504 Cha Ching -- Kish 8. $90,311.21 -- NFR: $2,181.00 -- 164 on 2---8th Can't remember which bull this is but I'm sure he's small, inbred, and over rated (like some barrel stander inners I've seen recently). Kagan was only 78 on this bull at Canby but these bulls go to lots of rodeos frequented by lots of the NFR types ... . they never get turned out ... . and everyone TRIES to ride them. They aren't the kind that guys nod and bail on. So I figure a bad trip in the middle of August shouldn't be held against a campaigner like this. Mighta been muddy... Slow Jo (takes fewer steps than Kenny Stabler did) mighta been in the way lecturing a judge about a guy just being 97 and having both spurs sewn into his loops... . Cha Ching mighta taken a horn to the gut that afternoon or wasn't feelin' too hot (hangover)... or Ross Coleman socked him... you never know.
Cory McFadden -- -66 MR Malone -- Gilbert 9. $88,510.36 -- NFR: $25,626.75 -- 177 on 2---5th Based on his record I figured this bull was good enough to go but didn't necessarily have to. Some of the guys are high on him. We made a within the herd switch after their SEAGULL CRAPPERS Circuit Finals. Gilberts had a few other good enoughs but this is the bull the guys like. Don't know if he's strong enough but ride points may make a difference in some of the places tonight and I figure Cory will spur him. Guess I won't pick on Steve tonight. Too easy a target. Put a beard on Darrel Baron and who would he remind you of? What's that cave hider guy? ... uh... Osama Bin Baron? (you guys might want to hustle in the chutes tonight)
Myron Duarte -- T30 Jelly Bean -- Battles 10. $81,163.54 -- NFR: $11,486.60 -- 172 on 2---6/7th YUUUUCK on BACK IN BLACK of Franlkins. That was a bad wave our little Hawaiian surfer boy was tryin to ride last night. Myron is known for drawing E bulls but that was an exceptional E. Didn't help that Myron had his hand run down on the side either. This sure could be the go round. Fell with Mike Moore in the top 4 in Dallas but it was more of a case of IRON MIKE pullin' him over. Kicks good... showy. Battles did a good job for our event this year. Lots of bulls to place on at his rodeos. Hill City was one of the best bull ridings of the summer.
Fred Boettcher -- 581 Bone Collector -- Andrews 11. $75,628.73 -- NFR: $10,686.90 -- 89 on 1---9th I assume this is a calf outta Big BO. BOne Collector. This is a better bull than the movie and Fred can probably eat popcorn while he's riding him. Bone got IRON MIKE MOORE in the top 4 at Dallas but only after Jelly Bean had done a pavement roller over him. Fred rode the bull at Dallas and I thought shoulda won more. But it was a case of only two judges neither of which were on the same page ... or planet. Not even sure one of them is from this galaxy. Didn't KLINGONS wear trench coats?
Josh O'Byrne -- 542 Free Loader -- Kish 12. $64,390.29 -- NFR: $0 -- 0-4 Tommy Keith said this bull was named after George Gibbs. TIGHT. A match between a solid NFR veteran bull and rider. He gets ridden some but he also bucks off a lot of pretty good cowboys. Josh has probably been on him if not I know he's seen him a bunch. Just a matter of getting the job done.
Jason McClain -- X23 Elvis -- Bailey 13. $62,348.96 -- NFR: $0 -- 0-4 This should be the go round. Cory McFadden was 90 on Elvis to win the long go at Kansas City. Then Elvis bucked off someone in 1.5 seconds in the short go. After the SLUG Jason got on last night this cool dude from Memphis ought to be fun. Smokeless ought to have his name changed to BUCKless. I shoulda switched him with C11 Di Do after Dallas. My fault. What cartoon character most reminds you of Sammy Andrews? Can't think of one? Okay... take his hat off. Now who? TWEETY BIRD I tawt I taw a puddy tat!
Greg Whitlow 14. $62,129.62
Jason Legler -- 610 High Voltage -- Beutler @ Son 15. $58,183.35 -- NFR: $0 -- 0-4 This could win go round buckles for Rider and Owner. You don't win $60,000 during the year and not be able to ride bulls good. Jason rides good around Beutler and Son and this waspy little sucker will make a guy ride good. He's got enough difficulty to him that he'll impress the DUH judges even tough they sometimes get to looking at the flatness of it and miss the difficulty. Too many judges see a flat bull and immediately write him off. Sometimes it makes them more difficult. What about change of speed? More to look at than just the flat. As good as G64 was last night, Jason's bull G621 was as bad. And that is BAD. Might have something to do with the bull's name.
Kagan Sirett -- 171 Prime Time -- Flying Ungrateful 16. $58,183.35 -- NFR: $0 -- 0-4 Reno Rosser's favorite bull. He always bets me on him and he always wins. I always pay in CASH just in case he gets audited. Think they 23'ed this little brindle at Brawley which of course prompted a verbal attack on my top field director in the land of Fruits and Nuts. So we made a within the herd switch. He's sure good enough to be here. In the past judges haven't marked this trying little brindle as much as they could because he's a little flat. I wonder if he doesn't have a chronic soundness problem. They usually only put him out once. Kagan looked better last night and should get along with this bull even though he has a tricky turn back. Might not stay for the entire 8.
Reride Bulls: Not necessarily in order: 86 Smokeless Abracadabra -- Bad Company 311 Why Not Minot 04 Check Mate -- Three Hills
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