Last night, I went to the first Frontier Days event I’ve attended in about 13 years or so. It was the “Professional Bullriders” event, and it was in the evening. I owe a friend of mine for inviting me. (For those of you who don’t know, Cheyenne Frontier Days is a huge, week-long rodeo event with lots of other things going on. It’s currently in its 112th year.)
Generally, bullriding is the most popular rodeo event. I remember back in the day when I used to go to the CFD events more often, i.e., high school, it was interspersed with periods of bronco riding, calf roping, etc. Most people couldn’t wait to get back to the bullriding. I suppose that’s part of what motivated someone to form a bullriders-only circuit.
But it’s not quite the same when all you see is bullriding for a couple hours. I think there’s a value in scarcity that was missing when we were treated with a couple hours of bullriding. After a while, one gets bored watching the same thing. It probably didn’t help that it started late, at 8:00 pm. We left early—at 10:00.
Anyway, it was a fun time, the first time I’d gone to anything rodeo or Frontier Days related in many years, and I had a great time hanging out with my friend and her parents.
Tonight: The Dark Knight. It’ll be awesome, and I’ll get to watch the Watchmen trailer on the big screen.
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