ProRodeo Sports News - May 12, 2023

MEMORIAM ... LARRY MAHAN 1943-2023

“He took me under his wing when I was 13 . . . He showed me the world is a lot bigger than just the rodeo arena. . . . . He was a special individual, he sure was to me” – TY MURRAY “I have been a close friend to Larry, and he is my hero. We rodeoed at the same time. He is eight years older than me, but he was in his heyday when I was doing my thing. He is the biggest thing that ever hit rodeo – ever.” – BOBBY STEINER “He was unique. . . . Larry had an aura about him and a following. People moved to him like a magnet. He never lost his thrill of what he was doing, but he also could go and compete. He was a little bit of Jim Shoulders, he was a little bit of Casey Tibbs and he was all Larry Mahan. He just had so much raw talent.” – BOB TALLMAN

PRCA ProRodeo file photo Larry Mahan, who was inducted in the inaugural class of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1979, acknowledges the crowd at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas in 2019.

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