Memories That Take Me Back

I was sitting here tonight listening to some 'older music' when I heard a song that took me back. A long way back. As most of you know I spent my earlier years growing up near Las Vegas, and then living in Las Vegas until 1994. When that song came on the radio, I felt as though I was sitting in the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV listening to it live in concert. That's the problem when I listen to music from the 1980's. I always end up flooded with memories I didn't know I still had.

I haven't been inside the Thomas & Mack Center since December of 1987 when I attended the National Finals Rodeo. I was never a huge fan of rodeos, but I found myself with a couple of NFR Tickets that I had won from a local radio station. While it wouldn't have been my first preference at the time, I was very lucky to have won them, and I had a great time at the rodeo. It smelled funny inside the arena, but that was understandable. These four guys sang the National Anthem, I can't remember their names, but they were damned good, and the competition in the rodeo was very intense to say the least. I have no idea how those rodeo guys do it. I know I never could.

If I got the chance, I would love to attend the National Finals Rodeo one more time, although it was only one day out of my entire life, I have such vivid memories of it, that I would love to be there, even in the nodebleed section, once again.