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Bum Steer

John Travolta can go to hail. We’re goin’ to Rawhide.

By Clay McNear

Published on December 13, 2007

You probably already know this, but Urban Cowboy was a bunch of bull. Englewood, New Jersey's John Travolta on a mechanical mount? Cleveland Heights, Ohio's Debra Winger in ropers? A whole generation grew up believing -- to quote another egregious example of Wild West revisionism by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen -- that The West Was Fun. Fun? Like hail. You try to stick it for eight on the back of a bloodthirsty taurus, as will the pros during Friday Night Bull Riding.
Fri., Nov. 16, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 23, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 30, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Dec. 7, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Dec. 14, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 25, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 1, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 8, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 15, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 22, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 29, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., March 7, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., March 14, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., March 21, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., March 28, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., April 4, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., April 11, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., April 18, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., April 25, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., May 2, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., May 9, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., May 16, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., May 23, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; Fri., May 30, 7:30 & 9 p.m., 2007


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