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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — These ten days of bigtime rodeo just flew by in Las Vegas.
The National Finals Rodeo and the cowboys, horses and steers will call it a night Saturday when another packed Thomas & Mack Center will witness the gold buckle-winning champions of rodeo.
It all began Dec. 4 and the crowds were sellouts with SRO fans finding places around the arena on the UNLV campus. Here’s how the NFR attendance shook out per day for a total of 175,846 — up from 170,045 in 2024 and the highest NFR attendance since 2014, That’s an average of 17,584 per day for the ten-day run.
Day 1: 17,362
Day 2: 17,731
Day 3: 17,779
Day 4: 17,764
Day 5: 17,360
Day 6: 17,213
Day 7: 17,226
Day 8: 17,736
Day 9: 17,820
Day 10: 17,855
The Cowboy Christmas shopping at the Las Vegas Convention Center also packed in county/western lifestyle loyalists and rodeo fans during the ten-day NFR. The convention center a few miles north of Thomas & Mack was wall-to-wall farm, ranch, country, western and rural gear of all types. There were more cowboy hats, buckles and boots than casino chips on the Strip.
The Cowboy Christmas vendors areas at the convention center drew a mighty big attendance of 347,571 during the ten days.
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