NFR Live with Las Vegas Events President Tim Keener

Lisa Lockhart isn’t a numbers person. But every once in a while, something forces the veteran barrel racer to contemplate the digits that define her career.

Patrick Henry Brady is one of five military veterans who will be honored during this year’s NFR, men whose bravery often proved that ‘discretion is the better part of valor’ at the Thomas & Mack.

Without question, over the past 40 years, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo has made Las Vegas the center of the universe in the sport.

With the exception of last season, Stetson Wright has been a runaway winner of the all-around cowboy competition that culminates at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

A historic vote took place among the PRCA Board of Directors, on whether to keep the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City or move it to Las Vegas. The result was a 5-5 tie.

Contrary to what its overwhelming success over the past four decades would suggest, it wasn’t always unanimous that the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and Las Vegas would become a match made in cowboy heaven.