I was a little dazed, but I'm all right

In the first round I had a bull named Total Darkness, and he was supposed to be a really good bull. When I nodded it felt like he was real low in his backend when we were leaving the chute, and it just got me sitting on my butt. When he turned back to the left, it threw me up in the air, then I landed on my back and my head hit the ground.

It didn't really knock me all the way out, but I guess I was dazed. I couldn't get up and I didn't really know what was going on around me. I was sitting right in front of the gate, and Frank was hollering at me to move, but I couldn't move. I had no sense of direction and didn't know where I was.

Of course, Tandy checked me out afterward, and told me that I couldn't get on the next night. He said I had to pack my stuff and go home.

He didn't leave it up to me. He pretty much told me not to get on. His reason was that I had had too many concussions already this year. He said that when you get so many of them, sometimes you don't come back from them. He said they can mess you up permanently.

I have to see a doctor on Thursday. He set me up with a neurologist and some other doctor to evaluate my brain and see how things are. I'll have to take two weeks off for sure. I know I'm not going this week to Omaha and I'm not going to Billings.

I'm trying to take some smart advice this time. Usually I don't take advice very good when it comes to riding bulls, but I've talked to a lot of people who have played professional sports. A good friend of mine – his daddy was a professional boxer – told me those head injuries aren't anything you want to play with. He told me I really needed to take their advice because those kind of deals can be pretty serious.

In the meantime, I've just been working cows and I haven't even been paid attention to it. I'm not really worried about it and I don't think it's really anything career threatening. At least, in my opinion, I haven't really worried about it all.

I'm looking to come back in Chicago and win an event. I'm desperate this year. I haven't won an event yet and it's killing me. I have to come and win one. It's tearing me up.

But, I tell you what, I was really excited to see both Luke and Ross do well.

Luke is a guy who has had a ton of talent for a long time and he's kind of been struggling over the years to get it together. This weekend he rode every one of his bulls and they were phenomenal rides in every round.

And Ross is a bigger guy, so he's got some potential to lean back on them bulls. For a bigger fella that doesn't really work, but he did a great job this weekend of staying out in front of his bulls and made great bull rides.

I really was happy to see both of them do good because they both have tons of talent. It's good to see guys who can really ride come out of it and ride like that.