Photo credit: ProRodeo photo by Dan Hubbell.
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Another National Finals Rodeo is in the books, with the 10-day rodeo event at Thomas & Mack Center drawing attendance of 168,289 fans for the Dec. 5-14 run.
That’s an average of 16,829 fans a night for the rodeo that began promptly at 6:45 p.m. each evening and had 120 contestants in seven rodeo events splitting $10 million in prize money.
That’s more than 325 consecutive sellouts for the Super Bowl of rodeos, sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).
The National Finals Rodeo has turned into a major two-week Western and country lifestyle festival with country music acts and retail exhibitors up and down Las Vegas Boulevard from South Point to Mandalay Bay to the Mirage.
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