FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED THE 2022 NFR BOAT…

By Jake Barnes with Kendra Santos

With the last day of the regular rodeo season being September 30, guys who rope for a living are either glad or sad right now. Some punched their tickets to the 2022 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Others had their bubbles burst down the backstretch. I was fortunate enough to qualify for the NFR 27 times before Clay (Cooper) and I switched gears a few years ago to focus on roping schools. I’ll say up front here that I was flat lucky to never have experienced not making the NFR cut in all the years I tried. Thank God that I never experienced the bubble. I was close that first year I made the Finals with Junior (Nogueira in 2014), but we ended up jumping up the ladder at the end and didn’t…

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The Team Roping Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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