Day 32 – Fort Worth Rodeo

Cowtown Colosseum

We drove from Midland in West Texas to Fort Worth today. And what do you do in Fort Worth on a Saturday night? We went to the rodeo. The Cowtown Colosseum was the first indoor rodeo (1918) and they have been holding rodeos there ever since.

Bulls 12 - Cowboys 0

Bull riding is always a good event, but tonight the cowboys got shut out. Only one guy even got to the 7 second mark but he was airborne by 8.

They had a guy doing lasso tricks. That isn't technically a rodeo event, but it was interesting. The guy doing the tricks is great, but the real star is the horse. That's also true of most of the other events. Another event that we always enjoy is the "calf cash" event where they send out all the kids in the audience to grab a ribbon from the back of an uncooperative calf to win a cash prize.