ProRodeo Sports News - Jan. 21, 2022

IN MEMORIAM ... JEROME ROBINSON

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PRCA ProRodeo file photo Bull rider Jerome Robinson competes at the 1978 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Okla. Robinson was an 11-time NFR qualifier.

ProRodeo Hall of Famer Jerome Robinson passes

BY TRACY RENCK P roRodeo has lost one of its superstars. ProRodeo Hall of Fame bull rider Jerome Robinson passed away Jan. 9. He was 74. Robinson, who was inducted into the roRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2019, qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 11 times – 1970-75 and 1977-81. Robinson went on to become a cowboy with many hats – a contestant, contractor, event producer, contract personnel and member of the PRCA Board of Directors. With so many titles on his résumé, Robinson was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame as a Notable, a word that perfectly summarizes his career. “I was floored to be truthful,” Robinson said in the July 19, 2019, edition of the ProRodeo Sports News. “It was completely unexpected knowing all the other people who put into this association. I’m completely humbled by it knowing the other people who have done a lot for this outfit.” During his time in the professional ranks, Robinson served as the

Bull Riding Director on the PRCA Board for four years, vice-president for one, a term on the National Finals Rodeo Commission, and was on the PRCA research and development committee for the building of the Colorado Springs headquarters and Hall of Fame. Robinson made a lasting contribution to

rodeo when in 1975 he helped institute the centralized computer entry system, known today as PROCOM. This system utilized a computer to implement the rules and guidelines of the PRCA Rulebook and a bank of toll-free phone lines to communicate with rodeo contestants, stock contractors, secretaries, and committees. PROCOM consolidated more than 500 individual rodeo entry offices across the nation into one, facilitating a vastly more efficient method of contesting in and producing PRCA rodeos. “If we took notes, it would have crumbled around our ears,” Robinson laughed in the July 19 PSN article. “We could have written a book on all of that, but the roof would have caved in on us because there was so much touch and go. We worked unbelievable hours to keep both of those moving.”

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