The ProRodeo Hall of Fame’s profile of Benny Binion links his enthusiasm for rodeo with the effort to move the National Finals Rodeo to Las Vegas. The move was achieved in 1985, the same year the PRCA recognized him as its ProRodeo Man of the Year.
The profile provides a person-centred companion to the official NFR history. It helps explain why the event’s arrival was not just an abstract tourism decision: people with relationships in both the casino and rodeo worlds helped make the connection. Binion belongs in the city’s sports-business history as well as its better-known gambling history.
THE ORIGINAL SOURCE
Binion, Benny - ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy
ProRodeo Hall of Fame
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