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I think about energy,” Edler said. “I've never gotten to come Las Vegas Events is the main organizer of the Wrangler NFR
here as a contestant, but I came once as a spectator. Even by along with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
just sitting in the stands in the Thomas & Mack Center, you President Pat Christenson knows the importance and excite-
could feel all of the energy in that building when you step ment of the event firsthand. “The Wrangler NFR is a true
inside. Just being there watching was very motivational, on-and-beyond-the-dirt extravaganza in which Vegas goes
and there wasn't any other place in the world that I stepped completely country for 10 days and nights each December,”
into that ever felt like that. Texas did great last year with all says Pat Christenson, president of Las Vegas Events, NFR’s
the circumstances that happened, but it's not Vegas. You hosts and producers. “The Wrangler NFR is the heart of an
don't feel the same energy in that building, and now that I experience and celebration that brings to life a huge piece of
will finally compete in Vegas, I just expect it to be a little Americana.”
bit more upbeat, a little more tense, and a lot more exciting.”

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