This would be me in a rodeo. You can’t get thrown and trampled by a stick. However, I wouldn’t be safe because you can still trip over a stick and fall down and break your neck.

This is just one element of the multitude of fun you’ll find at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo and lots of other stuff. I’ve never been but I’d love to go. It’s the 100th year and to get a little background they have a story for you:

If the founders of the National Western Stock Show, Rodeo and Horse Show were to attend its 100th anniversary celebration in January, they’d likely pop a few buttons with pride. The brainstorm of Elias Ammons, Fred Johnson and G.W. Ballantine, the first show opened on Jan. 29, 1906, for a six-day run that attracted 336 entries–a number with which the trio was mighty pleased. The mid-winter date, sandwiched between the busier fall and spring seasons, appealed to farm and ranch folks, while for the show’s Denver boosters, primarily businessmen, the livestock hoorah was just the fix for those post-Christmas blahs. The first three shows were held under canvas. Full Story

Anyone going? Want to send me some pictures and a story?