{"id":12760,"date":"2023-05-16T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2023-05-15T22:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:19:31","slug":"madison-square-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/16\/madison-square-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Square Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/professional-bull-riding-events-cities-rodeo-etiquette-974f042d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Many Big Cities, It\u2019s Their First Rodeo. \u2018You Don\u2019t Do That In Cowboy World\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Bull riding is becoming more popular in metro areas, and that poses hurdles\u2014trucking dirt through traffic to the arena and teaching manners; no booing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/charles-passy-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles Passy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-777477?size=01.9&amp;height=900\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rodeos need a lot of dirt\u2013but not every place has the best stuff for bullriding, so organizers have to find it. Some winds up on the bull.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who follow the burgeoning sport of bull riding, the stars are naturally the riders themselves\u2014who train for years to master the art of staying atop a 1,700-pound bucking bull for a full eight seconds, while maintaining a certain control, if not graceful authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there\u2019s Randy Spraggins, who\u2019s charged with getting 750 tons of dirt\u2013or 35 dump-truck loads\u2014into New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Spraggins, an independent contractor who\u2019s worked with the Professional Bull Riders organization\u2014PBR, for short\u2014since its inception 31 years ago, is the \u201csoil savant\u201d behind the sport, as one industry insider refers to him. He is responsible not just for trucking dirt in and out of the many arenas where PBR stages competitions, but for also making sure it is&nbsp;<em>just<\/em>&nbsp;right\u2013soft enough for the riders to land on as safely as possible when they inevitably fall, but hard enough to give the bulls the right footing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the ground is good, the bulls are bucking,\u201d Mr. Spraggins, a 62-year-old North Dakota native, explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/professional-bull-riding-events-cities-rodeo-etiquette-974f042d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal For Many Big Cities, It\u2019s Their First Rodeo. \u2018You Don\u2019t Do That In Cowboy World\u2019 Bull riding is becoming more popular in metro areas, and that poses hurdles\u2014trucking dirt through traffic to the arena and teaching manners; no booing By\u00a0Charles Passy For those who follow the burgeoning sport of bull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}