Ty Murray audio Blog Monday May 25 2009

I am so glad to hear from you again, I am glad that things are getting back to the way you like them. It is more comfortable being at home. I really loved watching you and fell for your attitude and all around demeanor and honesty. You are very special and we all love you and wish the best

Checking out my first non-DWTS blog entry - like the audio. Anxious to learn more about bull riding since I have never watched before now. Really hope all the troops that helped out with DWTS can assist you with your drive to include your sport in the ESPY awards. I agree it is a disgrace that they are not included. Just let us know what you need us to do. Glad to hear you are enjoying being back at home.

sounds great Ty and it will keep all pbr fans up to date on what's going on. Texas fan

Hi Ty and Jewel,
I just love the way you communicate with the fans ... more like personalizred level because we can hear you talk. WOW!!!
Also, just to let you know how much I enjoy you and Chelsie on DWTS. Wish you come back on the show ... perhaps doing a stint once in a while. Enjoy your R&R and take care.

Dear Ty,
Let us know how we all can help with your ESPY award recognition efforts!
Best,
Debbie

Ty, we are behind you all the way. I agree with you, the cowboys and bull riders need to be recognized for their outstanding performances in the sport. Just let us know what we can do to help.
Joan
Greensboro, NC

Ty,

The audio blog was wonderful, I look forward to more of these. I got your shirt just in time to wear it on vacation, just to show people how important you are. I'm glad to be a part of something important as the Cowboy Army. What is the ESPY award for? I would like to know more about it and how I can help get it. If the cowboys are being left out of sports awards, let's see if the army can change people's minds. They sure made a difference on Dancing With The Stars.

I like this audio blog. I think its cool to get to hear you in your words instead of just reading them. And I for one agree with you on the ESPY awards.

Hi Ty, would love to hear your blog, but I can't get it to play. In fact I've had trouble for the last few days with pbrtv. I'll keep trying....glad your home on the ranch. Enjoy your break. Take care!

Yeah, Ty went from having a horrendously busy schedule on DWTS and missing out on the PBR action to now having neither! Hope to see him back in the Versus booth this fall. Don't get me wrong -- I like listening to Michael Gaffney and Justin McBride, and even J.W. Hart is slowly growing on me, but I've missed having Ty there as well. We fans are spoiled!

Is there possibly something wrong with the audio blog itself? I can't hear anything, and since I was able to listen to Reese last week, I don't think the problem is with me...

If and when the ESSPYs begin considering bull riders as recipients, it will probably be a while before anyone is nominated. Organizations & people don't take to change easily. I hope I'm wrong.
I'm wondering, do you ever visit our little rodeo here in Mesquite, TX? Also, do you know about the new owners, the makeover and the rodeo season being extended through December?
Good Luck with your project. If Ty can't do it nobody can!!!!

Hey Ty! I'm glad you are back in TX/normal life now! I hope alls going well down there. I tried listening to your audio blog, but no sounds comes out except some fuzz if i turn my volume up.

Hi Ty,
The sports awards are important.
I would like to the PBR and all of the cowboy sports results added to the local and national news. They never report any results or injuries on the news with the rest of the sports information.
Nice to have you home. However, the family and friends and I are going to miss seeng you and Jewel on TV every week.
Thanks for you do!!

Yes, General! The troops are still behind you! i'm so glad that there is another battle for us to fight! You led us to a mighty victory, and i predict another is soon to come!

As soon as you know what we can do to help you get the PBR and the riders recognized properly, let us know! You know we can text and email with the best of 'em!!

Thank you for keeping us involved in the battles you are waging!

Always behind you!

The Troops!

Hey, Ty.

Was really surprised when I came over and realized that you were continuing to blog to us via audio. Please keep it up. Your thoughts/comments on bull riding, ranch life or PBR-related topics are always of interest to me and are another way to broaden my knowledge.

Know you are glad to be back to your roots watching your land unfold in all the lush colors of late Spring and early Summer. Really enjoyed Jewel's Twitter photos of both of you back at the ranch. I'm including George, of course. What a handsome fellow he is and he seems to love ranch life equally as much as you do.

Can't agree more that bull riders should be recognized as athletes. I, for one, would certainly want a child of mine to look up to a bull rider as a role model rather than some of the other professional sports figures that so often make the news headlines. Know there is good and bad in every sport, but, in my opinion, the bull riders bring not only their athletic ability, but also a gentlemanly, real deal personal quality to the mix. To me, this combination is hard to beat and adds to my enjoyment of the PBR events. When you have your strategic plan in place for the ESPY, I know that the troops, me included, will regroup and support you 100%.

If you'll allow me, I have a stupid question that I have wanted to ask for some time. What is the difference between a Brazilian bull rope and a regular bull rope? I hear the term Brazilian rope used and have wondered about it. Not sure if this is the place to ask bull riding questions, but thought I would try.

Please say hello to Jewel. I'm still really enjoying her new album and her twitters. Until next week, enjoy the open space, the blue sky and God's good earth.

Thanks, Ty.
Jill

Ty I very much injoyed you dancing and watching you ride Bulls.And watching you and hearing you talk on TV for the PBR. I would love to help you get bull riding in a award show..So pleaswe just let me know how I can help. Have a great day Jamie

Rumor Control has it that way long ago there were some guys who had jobs that paid them way more than anybody needs to lead a comfortable life and there was this ball game they weren't going to get to go and sit in the stands for because they had to do something somewhere else far enough away they wouldn't get there but they could split long enough to watch the game on tv only...the networks weren't covering it. So they just pooled a little bit of the pocket change and rented satellite coverage and hired some guy to run over with a camera and a transmitter, then sat and watched their "private" broadcast. Other folks were able to pick it up, and a satellite network was born. When we lived in Connecticut there was an ad in the local paper for somebody who knew music to be hired to select music and get the clearances to go along with the broadcasts.
Now, you will note, these guys run on the bottom line. A hobby event for them once with no income is one thing, but now it is a business and they expect profit. The events they broadcast and the events and people they cover as news represent advertising moola and a broad viewing audience nationwide.
So, as they say on the craft shows, all you have to do...
is generate a confidential prospectus indicating a multi year income and profit report with attendant advertising revenues and sponsorship.
Next, you must be sure that they are flooded with footage covering ALL rodeo events and invitations to broadcast live and reports with permission to do so.
Bullriding is good, but it is not a full meal of Rodeo.
Make sure that the gorgeous barrel rider ladies make appearances at their best. That will get you some air time.
Make sure you get some of George Strait's roping lined up to submit.
Have a couple of Clown Courses promos complete with interviews of the guys who have been recognized by their fellows for being the best already filmed and in the can to turn in for the slow season.
This isn't a flash in the pan activity. Fred MacMurray was the star in a couple of post war movies where he was the Cowboy Hunk and had a leading lady who was the box office draw of the year.
I grew up in Florida, which isn't the same place now that it was then, and there is the Silver Spurs every year, which is also different now than then.
So you could also rev up a promo on how this ain't yore mama's Rodeo.
The basic point is that national commercial enterprises have been providing individual sponsorship and event subsidies for decades.
Grown ups ride kids bikes, win big bucks, and have significant broadcast time. The equipment companies line up to pay for advertising time.
Ahem.
Sneak backstage and find out who is doing their marketing and hire them.
THEN the natural fall out will be that it is worthwhile to have annual awards for the folks that generate revenue in the field of Bull Riding as the first crop of Rodeo oriented recognition to be followed in later years by the other Rodeo Events.
Don't forget, we get the televised awards from various Acting Guilds and Movie Production Guilds, but those are the ones we see, the actors and actresses and movies, and maybe a few camera jockeys and arm chair quarterbacks called directors and producers. Most of the things we never think about, like the crazy person locked in a little room with miles of movie film and a little cutting machine who makes the movie pop for us gets an award, the week before, and if we really care, we can look it up. Did you know they gave an award in some obscure category to the guy who designed and built the underwater "cycles" in Thunderball? Not on the big show.
So, you might get your awards finally for the Bull Riders but they may not show up on the Big Show for a while. Small steady steps.
Hire a good marketer, with a proven track record, or failing that, somebody in the business has kinfolk who has just dawdled through a college degree in media or marketing and is considered generally worthless by the family...but it certainly won't hurt to turn them loose not knowing what they are doing (I hope).
I mean, look at it.
I don't mind opening my eyes in the a.m. to the guys reporting Sports on ESPN because they are well groomed and wearing suits and ties. There are so many slobs in the world, but it is rather comforting that our eyeballs are respected. I wouldn't expect any of them to get out in the yard to participate in any of the home grown sports, or any of the pros to deviate from the "uniform" and protective gear required for their sports, but in front of the camera, dress for success.
So, the reporter who appears on camera in your broadcasts needs to have a country suit, and where better than to get one of those sequined and embroidered things than from Nashville?
Total package, you've seen what they did for the presentations on Dancing, apply it to your field.
Oh, I want to see a promo on chaps.
The Western satellite movies channel has Bob Bose Bell and he did something on chaps, get him to start it and then I want to see a fashion parade of all the Christmas Tinsel that flashes on those guys.
It's not just, gimme an award, it's We Have a Revenue Generating National Interest Amateur and Professional Sport with Rules and Regulations and Safety Recommendations, Give Us Airtime (and an award category).
Oh, before I forget, there were some Rodeo afficianodoes in Northern Indiana with T shirts that had writing all ajar, this is what it looks like when I'm riding a Bull. or something like that. You've got to get those some air time. Those guys were prime examples of Why Old Ladies Like Rodeo Riders.
Oh yeah, we could watch a few hours of that.
Keep dancin.

Hi Ty,
Any chance of you doing a "meet and greet" at the PBR Finals this year? I know you haven't done them in the past, but it would be nice to be able to say "hi" to ya in person after being at your finals for years. Hope all is well by you, although it sounds like all is going great.
Take Care,
Jim

Bullriders and the bullfighters are some of the most athletic and bravest sports people on the planet! Add in the class of the bulls and it is a dynamic triad that cannot be beat! Where else can you pit a human athlete against an animal athlete?

Viewing live is the best, but since the economy does not allow for a lot of travel right now, I will take the TV for viewing. But live you FEEL the electricity of the cowboys, bulls, bullfighters and fans that cannot be experienced except live! I have been to many other sports events from professional basketball, football and baseball, not to mention hockey and soccer as well as horse racing. Nothing compares.

I would love to see more events broadcasted and reported on by the national news and sports stations - without being cut off by NASCAR or any other event.

Ty you got great plugs for PBR while on Dancing with the Stars, now take that and run with it. If anyone can do it, you can. Get McBride, Morales, Dunn and Smetts to help. Tell all us fans where to write and we WILL WRITE! Hee-Haw!!!!

Ty I thought when you retired that we all your fans and all the people that knew you back then [not that you are that old] was thinking that we would never see you or hear from you again. But thank god,. you are still making a big differance in our wonderful sport! I wish that we could have it on free tv more, will by gosh they can put ball games on every other night, why can't they put rodeo and bull riding on at least one night on the weekend, is that too much to ask for? Well as far as me and the people that i hang out with, that is still too little. Ty you and Jewel are great for the SPORT of BULLRIDING and keep up the good work that you do for the PBR, and country music that we all love!!!!!!!!!!