Nearly 170K attend NFR on its return to Las Vegas

A assemblage of 17,373 attended the last circular of the National Finals Rodeo astatine Thomas & Mack Saturday night.

From each of america down the scenes and to those you spot connected the dirt, convey you for spending your clip successful Las Vegas for the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. We look guardant to seeing you again soon – December 1-10, 2022.

We privation you each a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. pic.twitter.com/ZOu6yDUFsP

— Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (@LasVegasNFR) December 12, 2021

For the 10 nights, 169,539 fans paid admittance arsenic the rodeo returned to Las Vegas aft 1 twelvemonth successful Texas.

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), the sanctioning assemblage of the rodeo, moved the lawsuit to Texas past twelvemonth due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic protocols successful spot successful Nevada and Las Vegas.

The one-night attendance grounds stands astatine 18,742 successful 2013 erstwhile Thomas & Mack could grip a larger assemblage earlier remodeling constricted capacity. Attendance successful 2014 acceptable the 10-performance grounds astatine 177,565.

Outside of past year, the rodeo had been held successful Las Vegas each twelvemonth since 1985 aft a 20-year tally successful Oklahoma City.

There were 241,522 shoppers during the 11-day tally for Cowboy Christmas.

Contact Marvin Clemons astatine mclemons@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas connected Twitter.