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From rodeo blogger Neal Reid at NFRexperience.com after Kaycee Feild's 90.5 ride Saturday night marking his third straight NFR go-round win:

There's a reason bareback riders use so many rolls and rolls of tape to stabilize their riding arms that their appendages appear to be mummified.

Feild tried to explain.

"It's like you're going into a fistfight and a bar fight," said Feild, who has earned $53,654 in Las Vegas in three days.

"You've got to be ready for anything. (Saturday night), riding that one, I hit my head on his hip, but you have to keep on going. There was a little white flash.

"If you're playing football and running around the end of the line, if the end hits you, you're going to know it. To get by the 'eliminator pen,' make a full ride for eight seconds and not have any bobbles, that's hard to do." (For great blogs by Neal, go to NFRexperience.com and look for The NFR Insider on the home page.)

From Facebook.com/lasvegasnfr:

Scotty Babb: My wife and I have lived in Las Vegas or Pahrump for 27 years and we have gone to the NFR every year since it moved here. We love it and hope you get a chance to come to Las Vegas some time and enjoy it as much as we do.

Shannon Koehl Hemmitt: Congrats Cory Soloman!!!!! Represent Texas!!!! (Soloman, an NFR rookie, won tie-down roping Saturday night.)

Brandy Bielke: Just a question and a thought on the banners in the arena, why don't you all have any slots cut in the banners for the cowboys to jump/step up on the rails to get out of the arena when the animal is headed to them. I would think that it would be a safer emergency route out of there.

Dave Turley: Seems a little odd without Fred, Blair, Stran and Jerome in the tie-down roping, but I'm enjoying watchin Cody do his thing and the Cooper boys shoot it out...Trevor too. Havin a hard time pickin between team Cody and team Tuf tho!!! Have always admired how Cody always keeps it interesting right down to the last wrap and hooey at NFR!!!!