Could you imagine the New York Giants calling the NFL in order to compete in the Super Bowl? Or the Miami Heat calling the NBA?

Yet that’s what happens in rodeo, even for those who earned the right to compete in the sport’s grand championship, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. I noticed today where several qualifiers had made the all-important phone call to PROCOM in order to enter the NFR.

Of course, it’s a rather triumphant call to make. Of all the rodeos they’ll enter in their ProRodeo careers, this is the one that’s the most fun. This is the call to PROCOM they look forward to making each fall, and it’s one that thousands of others would like to be making on this October day.