Vintage 1985 NFR Las Vegas hat National Finals Rodeo :super ultra rare derby pom

Description

Very rare YoungAn snapback cap was only available through Canada's Equi-Tours when they traveled to the very 1st NFR held in Vegas
Made by - YoungAn
Material - 100% polyester
100% nylon mesh back panels
foam backed front panels`
Color - Red / white
This is a piece of history. Was only available through Canada's Equi-Tours when they traveled to Vegas for the 1st NFR held there.
The first NFR was held in Dallas in 1959 and continued at that venue through 1961. In 1962-64 Los Angeles hosted the competition. Oklahoma City successfully bid in 1964 to be the host city. In 1965 the first NFR at State Fair Arena drew 47,027 fans. NFR remained there through 1978 and through 1984 at the Myriad Convention Center, bringing Oklahoma merchants an estimated annual revenue of million.
In 1984, Las Vegas bid for the event. Although the Oklahoma City Council considered building a new million arena at the State Fairgrounds, the Las Vegas bid won. Since 1985 the NFR has been held in the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. This year (2020) due to the pandemic the event is to be held in Texas at Arlington's Globe Life Field, home of the MLB Texas Rangers baseball team.
Courtesy of PRCA:
Every one of the 1985 world champions went on to become a ProRodeo Hall of Famer.
Lewis Feild, the 1985 world champion bareback rider and all-around cowboy, won his first two of five gold buckles that year, and went on to raise a beautiful family, including son Kaycee, who’s won three straight world bareback riding crowns and is the leader of the pack heading into this year’s Finals.
Ote Berry, the 1985 world champion steer wrestler, was just 23 when he won the NFR average and his first of four world titles that year. Pretty cool and persistent for a kid born in South Dakota who had callouses all over his hands from working the hay fields in Nebraska, after not winning a penny as a PRCA rookie in 1982.
Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper were the 1985 world team roping titlists back before a world champion header and heeler were crowned separately, and also back before team ropers earned equal money at the NFR and so many other rodeos. The dream teamers’ identical earnings for the year made them the co-champs, in their first world championship year of seven.
Brad Gjermundson won three world saddle bronc riding titles in Oklahoma City before winning his fourth and final gold buckle in Vegas in 1985. You never heard how great Brad was from him, but his riding said it all loud and clear.
Joe Beaver, the 1985 Overall and Tie-Down Roping Rookie of the Year, accomplished the rare feat of winning the world as a PRCA and NFR freshman. To this day, the Thomas & Mack is often called “The House That Joe Built” in honor of the eight gold buckles Joe B won under that roof.
1985 World Champion Bull Rider Ted Nuce was once at a high school rodeo in Oakdale—California’s Cowboy Capital of the World, wearing a funny looking, short-brimmed, silver-belly hat. The powers that be weren’t buying that it was even a cowboy hat, so they wouldn’t let him ride in it when he got to the Junior Grand National high school rodeo at San Francisco’s Cow Palace.
Charmayne James, who won her second of 11 world championships in Vegas aboard her bay bomber, Scamper, that year. Scamper made his way into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1996.
The NFR payoff basically doubled from 1,550 in 1984 to ,790,000 when it hit Cowboy Town in 1985