This is the last week of Cheyenne Frontier Days. To cowboy/rodeo types it's holy week. I used to go to Frontier Days when I was in college. I just never went near the rodeo. They used to close off 16th street and it was a walking beer bust from the Plains Hotel to the Mayflower Cafe. Coors use to back a refrigerator trailer up to the rear of the Mayflower and they would empty it every night. A famous cowboy at the times was Casey Tibbs. Casey to park his Cadillac convertible outside the Plains Hotel with the top down. The later it got in the evening the higher the pile of beer empty beer cans rose in Casey's car. They'd clean it out the next day and fill it up the next night. The rules then were if you could see over the bar and had money, you could buy beer. Then the do-gooder's came in. A person couldn't have an open container on the street, Casey Tibbs quit rodeoing and the event lost its charm for many of us.
In over 50 years in Wyoming I think I went to over two rodeos. I don't consider it a sport although the rule of "You don't try to out drink, out dance, or outfight a cowboy" still exists. They are some rugged dudes. The PETA folks are all over them especially the calf roping. I admit I root for the bulls, horses, and barrels.
Frontier Days aren't the same. Now that I'm old I don't think it's all bad.