SO LONG AND THANK YOU, COTTON ROSSER

grew up in Southern California, and when I started rodeoing, a lot of the rodeos we went to were in California. Cotton Rosser ruled California, so that meant a lot of Rosser rodeos. Cotton was famous for barking orders and telling the timed-event guys to hurry up, so they wouldn’t hold up the show. So early on in my career, I was a little leery