Cowboys buck Satan, pray all will be safe
An excerpt from an article in Arizona Daily Star.
Written by Stephanie Innes

...Led by the Rev. Coy Huffman, the group's prayers are simple and to the point. He uses the Bible to motivate the bull riders, bareback riders and barrel racers who join him in worship.

"God's helping me every time. It's his will I'm rodeoing," said Joe Meling, 22, a bull rider from
Oregon. "I've been injured, but I've also been healed."
Bull riding is generally considered the most dangerous rodeo sport. Riders' injuries are frequent and can include cracked skulls and collapsed lungs. Some riders have broken their backs and necks, and never recovered.

"When you're facing danger every time you do your job, you've got to have some kind of faith," said Texan David Samsel, 36, also a bull rider. "If you don't believe, you'd better not be in this game."

Bareback bronc rider Chris Harris said not every preacher is welcomed by professional rodeo riders. Some religious leaders talk down to the cowboys, the 31-year-old Texan said.
"You can't just walk into a group of guys like us and expect us to respect you," said Harris, who describes himself as not religious but a believer in God. "Coy is one of us. He's here to lift you up, not to take."

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