ProRodeo Sports News - April 15, 2022

EDITOR’S LETTER TRACY RENCK Hall inductees have memorable reactions

T hose familiar with the Pro Football Hall of Fame would know the name David Baker. Baker is the former President & Executive Director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, who famously would travel across the country and knock on the doors of players and let them know they had been selected for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The PRCA doesn’t have Baker, but that didn’t take away from the reactions of the Class of 2022 ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees when they were notified the afternoon of April 12 of their inductions. As the phone was ringing the excitement in the room at the PRCA headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., was obvious. This was like notifying someone they won the Lotto. The 11-member induction class is full of star power headed up by the King of Cowboys Trevor Brazile. The induction ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. (MT), July 16 at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. Brazile accomplished everything in his ProRodeo career winning a PRCA record 26 world championships, 14 as the all-around cowboy. Brazile won his most recent world championships in 2019 and 2020 at the National Finals Steer Roping in Mulvane, Kan. Despite all Brazile has accomplished in the rodeo arena even he was surprised by getting the call from the PRCA about his induction. “That’s a call you like to get right there,” said Brazile, 45, who still competes sparingly. “I have to say seeing the 719 (area code) I thought crap did I forget to pay something. That is awesome (to be inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame). I will not miss it.” Four-time PRCA Bareback Riding World Champion Bobby Mote’s first words when told were simple. “No kidding,” he said. “It is a surprise.” Stock contractor Bennie Beutler, a ProRodeo Hall of Famer himself,

was thrilled another member of his family, the late Jake Beutler, is going into the Hall. Team roper Bobby Harris had silence at the other end of the phone and then said “All be. Boy, that’s a dream come true.” Frontier Rodeo owner Jerry Nelson was taken back about his saddle bronc and bareback horse Medicine Woman being inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. “When you can tell people to go to Colorado Springs and walk around and look (in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame) because there is one (horse) that come out of Frontier Rodeo that is a pretty special deal,” he said. Roy Duvall’s reaction when informed

Tracy Renck is the editor of the ProRodeo

Sports News . He previously served more than seven years as a media coordinator at the PRCA. He has three decades of experience in sports journalism with the last several consumed by ProRodeo.

by ProRodeo Hall of Fame steer wrestler Ote Berry that his prized horse Whiskey was being put in the Hall of Fame was priceless. “Ok, all right, take care of us,” Duvall said. Mel Potter, inducted as a notable, raised the bar for the entire sport of rodeo, but was humble in his response. “I’m not sure I deserve this,” Potter said. When rodeo clown Rick Young was told of his induction, you could tell in his voice, he thought someone might be pranking him. “Are you serious,” he replied. Hearing the reactions of the members of the 2022 ProRodeo Hall of Fame class was unforgettable for all involved, including myself. Congrats to the new class.

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Find the winners from the 2021 Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo and the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo. Cowboys or cowgirls who won more than one event at both rodeos appear once for each win. Names may be forward, backward, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. Spring Sprint 1. Find the winners from Guymon, Okla. BB: Caleb Bennett SW: Dalton Massey TR: Nelson Wyatt/Levi Lord SB: Wade Sundell TD: Shane Hanchey GB: Hailey Kinsel/Jordon Briggs BR: Laramie Mosley 2. Find the winners from Redding, Calif. BB: Ty Breuer SW: Josh Garner TR: Jack Graham/Calgary Smith SB: K’s Thomson

TD: Kincade Henry GB: Katie Pascoe BR: Garrett Smith

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