PBR Notes: Duluth, Georgia

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"And I mean try, cowboy.  Everything you've got."

Ty Murray

"These bulls don't know who he is, nor do they care."

Shorty Gorham

"Holy ____."

Chad Ochocinco

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You didn't want it to be all about Chad Ochocinco, did you?

I didn't, either.

I was planning to resist it, but I couldn't.  Because in the course of a day, the bravado drained out of a terrified football player and a cowboy walked him though it.  It was a good moment for bull riding.

"Someone like me, an elite athlete in football, came here and was humbled," Ochocinco said.

I had a lot of respect for him.  Like Ty Murray said, he talked the talk and then he walked the walk.  The talk is easy.  The walk, not so much.

J.W. Hart said that seeing all the riders gathered around the chute waiting for the ride made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.  It was a good moment.  Maybe even a great moment.

Ty Murray.  What can you say about that guy?  He was courteous and welcoming.  He had no chip on his shoulder, no axe to grind, at least that you could see.  He seemed as protective as a father to someone who had challenged the sport he has spent a good part of his life building up.  And if the few moments when Ty Murray talked Chad Ochocinco through the chute preparation didn't give you goosebumps, well, I got them for you.   

The Rest of It

J.B. Mauney busted out and won the weekend.  I won't say he broke the slump, because who knows, he might not have.  As you know, I'm not a J.B. fan or a J.B. detractor.  It's just good to see a good rider have a good weekend after so many weekends of bad. 

The Ochocinco excitement eclipsed the fact that:

• There were only 28 rides out of 100 attempts this weekend.  

• There were three riders in the final Championship Round who qualified with only one ride.

• Ben Jones got one score and still managed to be in 11th place for the event.

Keep Scrolling for More

 Scroll on down the page for some Des Moines numbers, bull stats and pedigrees, and the video of Chad Ochocinco on Deja Blu.  And if you feel like it, send me an email or post a comment here or on Facebook.  I'd love to hear what you thought of the event. 

Georgia Bulls

First of all, give it up for Shane Proctor, who got off T18 Chance (Teague) at 6+ seconds because he thought the bull was hurt.  He was.  Mr. Teague has said elsewhere that the vet thinks that Chance pulled a muscle in his back, but appears to be recovering well.  Not everyone would have gotten off a bull that was surely going to be a re-ride.  And in an ideal world, a re-ride is exactly what Proctor would have gotten.

On top of that, hats off to J.W. Hart for calling it right.  (In the face of some heavy comments by Craig Hummer about what a mistake Proctor had made.)


High Scored Bulls:

I'm a Gangster - 45.75  (Jeff Robinson)
Movin' On - 45.25  (Frontier Rodeo)
King Lopez - 45  (K Bar C)
Immigrant - 45  (Frontier Rodeo)
Bahada - 45  (K&K Cattle)


Pedigree info:

614 Hard Rock (Davis / Luna) is a Spider Monkey son, which makes him an A6 grandson on the sire side.  On the dam side he goes back to Rooster.  (Hard Rock bucked off Valdiron de Oliveira in 2.75 and Kody Lostroh in 3.47 in Duluth.)

T18 Chance is a Copper Top son out of Page 718.  The grandsire on both sides is A6.  The granddams are both Page cows.  415-199 on the sire side and 418 on the dam side.

601 Off the Hook (Davis) is a Houdini son out of a Ravenscroft dam.  Grandsire on the dam side is Whitewater, on the sire side White Sports Coat.

924B Immigrant (Frontier Rodeo) is a Houdini grandson.

7451 Rusty Waters (Teague) is a grandson of Whitewater on the sire side and a grandson of Neon Nights on the dam side.

73/4 Flashpoint (Teague) is a Little Yellow Jacket son out of a Teague cow.

6406 Air Jack (Teague) is a Neon Nights son out of a Rafter F cow.  This makes him a Gunslinger grandson on the sire side.

5209 Cut Loose (Teague) is also a Neon Nights son.  He's a grandson of Kish's Cash on the dam side.

Click here for more "Who's Your Daddy / Who's Your Momma."


Pretty:

691 Superfreak (Davis & Canter) is a dapple gray bull and was the prettiest bull out there.

6220 RFD HD (Teague), a black bull with a white belly and leggings, came in a close second.  

Frontier Rodeo gets a nod for using red flanks.  Every bull looks better with a red flank on him. 


Enormous:

528 Hou's Ya Daddy (Davis).  Not much to say.  Huge.  I'll see if I can get a weight for him.    

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