ProRodeo Sports News - August 2, 2019

Several 2018 world champs shut down the Las Vegas Strip for a 2019 promotional event

A STRIP SHUTDOWN AND EPIC NIGHTS ON THE THOMAS & MACK DIRT. CONCERTS, VIEWING PARTIES AND COWBOY CHRISTMAS. YEP, THE WRANGLER NFR IS READY TO SHINE AGAIN IN 2019 By Brian Hurlburt

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t was only May, some seven months before the 61st Wran- gler National Finals Rodeo, but that didn’t stop several

Sure, the most anticipated 10 days for those who celebrate the Western lifestyle might have been several calendar-page flips away—this year’s event is December 5-14—but appar- ently, it’s never too early to start the promotion train. So, on a mild, late-spring weekday morning in Las Vegas, there were Tyler Waguespack, Hailey Kinsel,

Caleb Smidt, and Clay Smith and Paul Eaves—world champion steer wrestler, barrel racer, tie-down roper and team ropers, respectively—gal- loping down the Las Vegas Strip as the heroes of the Las Vegas Metro- politan Police Department stopped traffic. All the while, Dale Brisby, ro- deo’s pseudo pied piper, was there to chronicle the moment for his legion of social media followers.

Professional Rodeo Cowboy Asso- ciation and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association world champi- ons—as well as a country & West- ern social media superstar—from “shutting it down” in Las Vegas to promote the Super Bowl of Rodeo.

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Photos: Tom Donoghue, Steve Spatafore. Photo: Eric Berner