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Steer roper J.P. Wickett, a 16-time qualifier for the NFSR in 1996, 2001-14, 2016, did have a fond memory of Green. “I called himMean Joe Green and he said, ‘son my name is Gentle Joe Green,” saidWickett, who is the steer roping representative on PRCA’s executive council. “He was a good guy. He gave me my first steer string.” Lyne, who was inducted in the inaugural class of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1979, was one of the few contestants to excel in every rodeo event, winning a combined five world titles in three different events. He was the all-around world champion (1971-72); tie-down LYNE ADDS ONE FINAL LINE TO RESUME

everything worked out good,” said Lyne, 75. Lyne was a world champion tie-down roper, and he was good friends with steer ropers James Allen and his son, Guy and that led him to expand his repertoire. “I started wanting to trip (steer rope) and I went to who I thought was the best and that was James and Guy, and started from there,” Lyne said. James Allen qualified for the NFSR eight times – 1971-72, 1975-77, 1979, 1980 and 1983. Guy Allen has qualified for the NFSR a PRCA-record 33 times – 1977-2008 and 2016 – and he’s won 18 steer world championships, a single-event PRCA record. “When I got started in steer roping around 1974-75, I went to James and Guy and I wanted to do as good as I could,” Lyne said. “I just kept practicing, and practicing and man, it turned

HISTORY MAKERS Only three cowboys in the history of the PRCA have qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in bull riding and competed at the National Finals Steer Roping: • Joe Green, bull riding (1959-64); steer roping (1965) • Phil Lyne, bull riding (1971-72); steer roping (1979, 1982-90) • Shorty Garten, bull riding (1982); steer roping (1994, 2002)

roping (1971-72) and steer roping (1990). Lyne also was the NFR average champion in tie-down roping (1971); bull riding (1972); and steer roping (1983, 1986). “Bull riding was something I liked to do, and

out the way it did. I started riding bulls real young and I liked to do it. I put concentration on trying to do the right things and not make mistakes. “Every event to me has its basics and a lot of people don’t know the basics. If you make mistakes it is going to cost you. Everybody is going to make

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PRCA ProRodeo file photo Phil Lyne was in his prime in 1971 when he was competing at the NFR in Oklahoma City, Okla. That year Lyne was the all-around world champ and the tie-down roping world champion.

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