ProRodeo Sports News - Feb. 4, 2022

Antone. You think you have a good relationship, and they did that (put the family in the Hall of Fame) and showed that they valued us. They don’t take us for granted. I have a lifetime of memories from this rodeo. “I used to boot shine when I was a kid, when I was like 8 to 10 years old. That was my best rodeo to boot shine because I had a really good spot and I remember when I was 10 years old, and I was making $100 a night if it was a good night. That was a big deal to me when I was a kid and things like that makes San Antone so special to me. I get choked up when I talk about it.” Binion runs the family’s stock contracting company with his brother Chase, who also serves as a pickup man. Binion is thrilled the SASSR is back at the AT&T Center. “After they pulled out all the stops and went through all the hurdles they did last year, it feels amazing to be back where it is normal,” Cervi said. TAKE A TRIP BACK IN TIME As contestants prepare for the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo to begin this year, the ProRodeo Sports News thought it would be fun for its readers to go back in the time machine a decade to the 2012 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, which took place Feb. 9-25, at the AT&T Center and revisit how things unfolded. Bull rider Cody Teel had a memorable inaugural appearance in San Antonio in 2012. Teel, 19, at the time, had a 90-point ride on D&HCattle’s Priceless to win the final round. He also finished second in the Xtreme Bulls event earlier in the day and departed town after earning $34,987.

“I’ve been preparing for this moment since I was a little kid in the backyard pretending, I was riding here,” said Teel in a March 16, 2012, article in the PSN . “I’ve envisioned this – being here in the short round in a do-or-die situation – many a time in the backyard and practice pen growing up, and it gives me goose bumps right now to think about that and be here doing it. I knew this is where I wanted to be.” The huge San Antonio haul paid dividends for Teel as it catapulted him to win the 2012 world championship. He edged J.W. Harris by $1,056 for the title. In the saddle bronc riding Chet Johnson, 31, at the time, grabbed top honors with an 86-point ride on Calgary Stampede’s Knight Rocket. “This rodeo has come so far just in the time I’ve been rodeoing,” said Johnson, an 11-year veteran at the time. “What Keith Martin and this committee have done with the format – and just the whole concept of it – they’ve taken rodeo to a new level. Our hats are off to them, and we love coming here.” Other winners in San Antonio in 2012 bareback rider Steven Dent; steer wrestler EthenThouvenell; team ropers 2009World Champion Team Ropers Nick Sartain and Kollin VonAhn; tie-down roper Justin Maass; steer roper Jess Tierney and barrel racer Angie Meadors. It’s worth noting that although Maass beat Tuf Cooper for the San Antonio crown with a 7.4-second run in the finals, compared to Cooper’s 7.8-second time, Cooper turned the tables on him at that year’s NFR. Cooper won his second consecutive world title that year, while Maas finished second in the world standings.

Kerri Allardyce photo Cody Teel had a 90-point ride on D&H Cattle’s Priceless, which carried the then 19-year-old to the bull riding title in his first trip to the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Feb. 25, 2012.

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