NFR Extra

This is our second part of three with the 2020 Wrangler NFR champions from the top of Circa inside the Legacy Club in Downtown Las Vegas. 2X World Champ Team Roper Paul Eaves and World Champ Tie-Down Roper Shad “Money” Mayfield joined us on NFR Extra before their summer rodeo run.

We start our hundredth episode with Kaycee Feild and Jacob Edler from the top of Circa at the Legacy Club in Downtown Las Vegas. We catch both champs before they embarked on the summer rodeos back in May. This episode kicks off part one of three with the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo champions, including Paul Eaves, the Wright brothers Ryder and Stetson and Shad ‘‘Money’’ Mayfield.

Very few rodeo athletes have amassed to rodeo royalty from the college ranks, but the King of the College Cowboys, Ben Londo, has done just that. He shares his passion and challenges of coaching the young athletes of today to elevating the Cal Poly Rodeo program to one of the largest collegiate rodeos in the nation.

Jim Dewey Brown shares his experience building the New Mexico State University's rodeo program from the ground up to setting the stage for the College National Final Rodeo and his most recent endeavor becoming the GM of the World's Oldest Rodeo, Prescott Frontier Days.

This was an NFR Throwback to the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas when we caught up with Pro Rodeo Hall-of-Famer and 5x World Champ Saddle Bronc Rider Billy Etbauer at Cowboy Christmas. Billy shares his historic run of 21-straight NFRs, the saddle bronc riding record of 51 total NFR go-round wins and his brotherhood with brothers Robert and Dan.

We are going back into the NFR Throwback vault with a living legend among stock contractors and owner of Growney Brothers Rodeo Company, John Growney. Growney joins the show to talk about his and Don Kish’s notorious Red Rock, the 1988 Challenge of Champions and his dear friend Lane Frost.

NFR Announcer Roger Mooney joins NFR Extra to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of the past three hundred and sixty-five days, the impact on agricultural education with the FFA and some Georgia facts.

Australian Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Saddle Bronc Rider Jake Finlay joins NFR Extra to share his experience winning the College Finals Rodeo, training with the Etbauers, the difference from rodeoing in Australia to the US and traveling with the “Tom Brady “of rodeo - Chet Johnson.

As we march towards our one-hundredth episode, we dig back into our NFR Extra vault with an episode loaded with 16 gold buckles and two hall-famers. 8x World Champion Bull Rider Donnie Gay talks about the mental and physical challenges of repeating as a world champion bull rider and 8x World Cham Joe Beaver shares his record rookie run when NFR came to Las Vegas, retirement and his transition to television.

He hails from a long line of pro rodeo athletes named Frost and His mantel is littered with buckles and awards, including the coveted Bill Linderman Memorial Award. While many bull riders feed off of adrenaline-rushed schedules and lifestyles, steadiness seems to suit NFR bull riding qualifier Joe Frost. Joe visits NFR Extra to talk about his early retirement and reflect on his successful career in the rodeo industry.