Fremont Street Experience went to the bulls Thursday night. The 15th Annual PBR World Finals kicked off under the big canopy.
It all started as the top 45 bull riders in the world were introduced to the excited audience. That was followed by a first. The first ever World PBR Bull Draft…
What’s a bull draft?? Good question… In the PBR World finals you have three top athletes. The worlds best bull riders, the worlds top bull fighters and you have the very best (toughest) bulls on earth…
In a first of its kind for the finals, the Bull Draft is where the bull riders get to chose what bull they want to ride.
It’s good and it’s bad… I mean you want a good, mean bull because the better he tries to throw you off and the harder you try to stay on, the better your score is and increases your chances of winning.
But in this sport, you aren’t out on a big field, covered with all kinds of padding and having to chase a ball around a field with other over paid athletes.
Hell no! In this sport you are strapped onto the top of a few thousand pounds of upset bovine who is not wanting you to be there and will try anything to get your butt off him. If you ride him, you get a chance to make some money. If you don’t ride him, you don’t get paid!
So the meaner the bull, the better chance of a higher score and getting a paycheck. You also have a higher chance of being thrown off, injured or maimed and not making any coin. I don’t know if I really want to be the one to chose my own punisher like that… There’s just some things that should be left to chance…
Than again, I get to watch all of this from the safety of the sidelines…
