Here it is, only 10 days until Halloween, and Devon Mezei has already tamed the Boogy Man.
Arguably the meanest, orneriest, cussen son of a gun in the corral, Boogy Man did his best to shake Mezei off his back Saturday afternoon at the MTS Centre, during the finals at the Professional Bull Riders Canada Rocky Cup competition. The 19-year-old Scandia, Alta. cowboy hung on and took the top prize once all the dust had cleared.
“I’ve seen that bull a lot,” said Mezei, adding, however that it was the first time he had ever ridden him. “He was my toughest ride of the event. He is really tough and bucks hard.”
Mezei scored 89 on the ride and had a four-ride total of 258. Vince Northrop of Davidson, Sask., rode Red Hat Magic to second place with a score of 84.5 (246.5 total) and Garth Oldfield of Mila, Alberta was third on Another Brother. Oldfield scored 83 and had a total of 240.5.
Mezei said that there is no real way to ride any bull other than to “hang on and don’t quit.”
He began riding six years ago, just as his father, his grandfather and great grandfather had. “I guess it’s just bred into me,” he said. “My whole family has been involved in rodeo as long as I can remember.”
Mezei likens the danger of his sport to that of a football player stepping onto the field to play football, however admits that in football there is a set of rules the players must follow. The bull, on the other hand, knows no rules.
“Yea,” he admitted. “But I guess that’s just the risk you have to take.”
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