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TEAM WRIGHT Rodeo -The Cowboys Superbowl...
"It's the Wright Night at The Rodeo": Meet The family That Dominates Competitive Saddle Bronc Riding
Bill Whitaker met nine members of the Wright family who rank among the best professional saddle bronc riders in the world.
60 Minutes 9 AUG 2021
Rodeo might just be America's original pastime. It started with an event called saddle bronc in the Old West.
There's one name that dominates saddle bronc - the Wrights. Like every sport in America, rodeo was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but when we first brought you this story in 2019, there were nine members of the Wright family riding the circuit and they ranked among the best in the world.
In a sport with plenty of wannabe cowboys, as you'll see and hear, the Wrights are the real deal - vestiges of the American frontier. Their lifestyle has prepared them for what has been called one of the last blue collar sports in America. In saddle bronc, there are no Tom Brady salaries and there are regular injuries that would make running backs flinch.
And yet, none of that discourages the Wrights. Each generation seems to be better than the last.
In saddle bronc the goal is to hang on with style for eight seconds, to a horse specially bred to buck you off.
Meet America's first family of rodeo, competing for glory on horseback the Wright way.
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