A first-of-its-kind event bucks its way over to Rogers Place as the Professional Bull Riders Global Cup comes to Edmonton November 9 to 11. Rogers Place will be the first ever Canadian host of the PBR event and it will showcase 40 riders from five countries, all competing for a record setting purse of one-million dollars.
The event will award the largest purse in Canadian bull riding history, as riders from Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Australia all chase the money.
It’s the second biggest PBR purse right behind the PBR World Finals that is held in Las Vegas. The bull riding event, which will be broadcast on TSN, is an important pillar to the new PBR Global Cup, a five-country, international competition that will crown the world’s best bull riding nation.
Flint Rasmussen, the event’s rodeo clown, says it’s more than an old-school rodeo and it’s more than your grandfather’s rodeo.
“The riders are sold different, they are made to be the stars, it’s just a different presentation. It’s modern music, it’s rock ‘n’ roll, it’s lasers, it’s flames, it’s pyro.”
Rasmussen grew up dreaming of entertaining people, “Most people don’t get to do what they dreamed doing as a child. I feel pretty lucky that I grew up to live my dream. This kind of work actually doesn’t feel like working at all.”
Three day ticket packages go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 28 at RogersPlace.com.
