When the Oakland A’s make their move to Las Vegas and build their $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana site, organizers of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo said they will begin investigating whether it makes sense to move the rodeo from the lower-capacity Thomas & Mack Center to the new facility.
The 65th edition of NFR set for Dec. 7-16, considered the Super Bowl of rodeo, typically sells out months before the 10 days of western entertainment is staged in early December.
Around 340,000 people come to Las Vegas for NFR and only half of them have tickets to one of the performances. The others just soak up the western ambience and attend dozens of other activities, including watch parties at 32 Las Vegas sites and two in Mesquite.
