Word: bronco
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Before a packed theater in Hollywood, a nude blond totters onto the stage tied up and blindfolded. A hush falls over the audience of several hundred as she begins to flex her arms and whip her torso around like a bronco, until eventually the rope loosens and her hands break free. She sheds the blindfold and slips out of her bonds to reveal a black thong. She glares icily, turns around and slaps her butt. The crowd--especially the half of it that's female--gives...
...cowboys and cowgirls. The N.S.P.R.A.'s seven-month tour hits such cities as Buckeye, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and culminates with a national championship in Reno, Nev., in early November. The tour pits cowfolk from three age brackets (40s, 50s and 60-plus) in events such as bronco or bull riding, steer wrestling, calf roping and ladies' barrel racing. The events and rules of Senior Pro rodeo are the same as rodeo's major league, the Professional Rodeo Circuit. The purses are not. On the senior tour, participants battle weekly for about $30,000 in total prize money, meaning...
...Short and her rodeo colleagues. "People tell me to quit all the time," says Mario Ciucci, 58, a bareback rider, "but I feel as good as I did at 35." Still, it's impossible to ignore the reality that a group of grandparents are dodging bull horns and bronco hooves--especially since the animals make no allowances for age. Injuries are guaranteed. In Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe, but they are nearly always serious. "You're gonna...
...would think that someone like Naldur would be ready to sign up for his game cards, given the toll bronco busting is taking on his body. Last year the school psychologist from Layton, Utah, broke a rib and a leg, ruptured his spleen, separated his shoulder and suffered a concussion. Each time he taped himself up and got back on the horse a few days later. "Every autumn I have a retirement party," Naldur says. "Then in spring the snow melts, the flowers bloom, and I realize nothing's really changed except I'm one year older." His wife Mazie...
Given the cost, it's no wonder those who succeed attain hero status among their peers. The veterans love to spin dramatic yarns about an 83-year-old barrel racer who competed while legally blind, a one-armed calf roper, and a 66-year-old bronco rider who managed to beat a group of 20-year-olds. Pride motivates the tales, especially because the current crop of rodeo seniors considers itself the last generation to hone its skills by working on ranches rather than at specialized roping schools or college rodeos. "So many people get older and begin to shut...