Move ’em on, head ’em up. Cut ’em out, ride ’em in. Keep them dogies movin’.

That was part of the theme song of the old TV western “Rawhide.” It is a refrain that no doubt is reverberating throughout Las Vegas City Hall today, after attendance figures for the just completed National Finals Rodeo were announced.

The 10 performances attracted 173,350 paying spectators, up from 169,539 in 2021. The crowd for Saturday’s final round was 17,788 — the highest single-day attendance since 2014 when the Thomas & Mack Center was renovated, reducing seating capacity.

The NFR also ran its streak of consecutive sellouts to 350. The numbers were just as impressive at The Cowboy Channel Cowboy Christmas at the Las Vegas Convention Center.