Cowtown Coliseum and Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Aug 7, 2022 | Event, Food, USA: Texas

Cowtown Coliseum is a 3,418-seat multi-purpose arena, and it hosts weekly rodeos.
Billy Bob’s Texas is iconic, huge country music honky-tonk with an indoor rodeo arena, mechanical bulls & dozens of bars.

Cowtown Coliseum: 121 E Exchange Ave, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Billy Bob’s Texas: 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

The Cowtown Coliseum broke ground in 1907 and was completed in 1908, at a cost of $250,000.

Preparing for the fire that will show the letter PBR (Professional Bull Riders). The show that I was there to see was the PBR competition.

The Bull Riders

Two cowboys are standing at one end of the field to catch the cow that might run around the area.

Bull riding is success when the rider can sit on it for 18 seconds.

So eventually, everybody falls because the cow does not stop shaking his body.

Each ride is quick because most of them fall before 10 seconds.

No bull rider got mauled by the cows in this competition.

These three guys with blue and red jackets on the ground control the cows when the bull rider falls.

This cow ran the whole field.

The Coliseum is air conditioned and closed air from outside heat.

The competition took about an hour and 30 minutes to finish.

I did not take pictures of all the bull ridings, but enough to give a feel of how it goes.

There were many vacant seats, but enough people were there.

This is the last one for the post.

Next to the coliseum is Billy Bob’s Texas.

Billy Bob’s Texas is the world’s largest honky-tonk. The club has almost three acres under one roof with its own indoor rodeo arena for exciting live bull riding every Friday and Saturday, a Texas-sized dance floor, dozens of bar stations, a full restaurant featuring delicious favorites such as BBQ, Chicken Fried Steak, hamburgers and more, a late night pizza kitchen, arcade games, a Wall of Fame with celebrity handprints, and a gift shop.