While we were on the topic of some wild times the boys brought up some of their favorite memories from their time well spent in Vegas every December. Clay starts off with, “We were in Vegas this one time…” and he trails off. To which Logan responded with, “Whoa whoa, whoa, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Clay then reassured Logan to trust the process and I ended up with some pretty good tales.
“So, we were in Vegas for the Jr. NFR. Kenline and I are both up and you know were there for eight days or something. It was a long time, too long to be in Vegas.” Logan agreed, “Especially for some brave young men takin’ on the wild. It’s like a jungle over there.” “So anyway, this is my first time in Vegas unaccompanied by others that care about me.” “Parents, that’s what Clay’s saying. We were not associated with the parents at this time. We are by ourselves, exploring the jungle.”
Clay continues on with this story of his. “So, one night we stumble and some how end up in the MGM, I don’t even know how that happens.” Logan chimes in again, “That started cause we were going to the MGM. There was no like, “oh we’re at the MGM” it was, “We are at the MGM, we are going.” Clay then says, “I’ll repeat myself we stumbled and fell into the MGM. Anyways, we get through the front door and turns out there’s a bar in the back of this deal so we go up there and Kenline, he improvised and so he uh.” Logan then states, “Well I was there the year before, so like.” Clay starts in again with, “Are you going to let me tell my story?”
To which Logan responded with “Well I’m gonna help you out. Well anyway so the year before if you kind of looked like you were 21 all you had to do was walk up to the bar with an empty beer can and be like, I need another. And they’d serve you a beer. We walked in there and these guys are like how are we gonna get beer? And I’m like watch this. I grab an empty beer can that was sitting on a slot machine or something and I go walking up to this bar and I’m like, “can I have another Coors Light”, wait not it was Michelob, so I was like “Can I have another Michelob please?”” “Ah Michelob, we’re in the athlete beers,” Clay says. “And I mean no question no nothing, they give you a beer. And I mean you can just see their (the boys) jaws just drop and they were in the trash cans digging up these beer cans, ah it was good.”
Clay then proceeds to ask if he can finish his original story. “So, we find our way to a couple of beers, and uh we’re like a night out on the town, we need to find us some company. And I don’t even know exactly how they met but this fine lady comes up to Kenline and when you’re drinking at the MGM you don’t tell them you’re exactly under age right away anyway so what were we 24?” he asks Logan. “Nah, I think we were 23 going to Texas Tech.” “Yeah 23 going to Texas Tech.” “Not South Plains cause if you say you’re going to a jr. college.” “Yeah you can’t go to jr. college and be pickin up women. So we were talking to these girls and Kenline catches the eye of this one fine looking lady. Well she’s 26. Anyways the night goes on. I’m playing wingman not getting far. My girl she wasn’t in to bull doggers. And well, wing man’s gotta hang in there. Well night winds down and we go to leave and we catch this party bus. “With these ladies” “Yeah with these ladies naturally and Kenline’s like so “What are you doing in Vegas?” To this girl that he’s now picked up from the bar and she’s like “Well I’m here to interview the winners of the Jr NFR.” Which we were there attending. We were competing in the Jr NFR.” “We both looked at each other and we're sitting there just loving life and she says that and we both looked at each other and our jaws just hit the ground. We were like awe shit.” Logan adds. Clay then continues on with his story,” And that day guess who won the round? This guy. The one that picked up the girl. So, I mean we looked at each other and we're like oh boy. She doesn’t recognize us. Doesn’t know who we are. She hasn’t done her homework obviously. The night goes on, good night. We end the night, and we wake up in the morning and Kenline’s like you gotta look at this. And I was like ohh, cause naturally we didn’t pull anything we just went to bed like the good citizens we are. So, he shows me his phone and it’s a text from this girl. And it’s a picture of him shaking hands with Ote Berry at this Jr. NFR deal. Him winning the round getting this buckle. She’s like you’re not even out of high school. To which he replied with "Well I am out of high school, just not quite as old as I said I was.” “I texted her “Hey, good mornin beautiful” and she doesn’t even say good morning back she just sends back that picture of me and Ote just shaking hands at the Jr NFR. “So we were like okay well we lost that battle 9 times out of 10. Well, turns out were that 1 out of 10 and she texts him back, not mad. Not mad at all, wants to hang out again. So, we hang out with them again. And then it turned out she was married. Which was not perfect, but when in Vegas I suppose.” Clay laughs a bit as he ends his story.
Soon after Clay finished up, Logan recalled another good time they had that same year. “So when you walk into the MGM there this lion sitting right there and its got this big ol’ Resistol cowboy hat on this thing and first night were there Clay’s like I’m gonna steal that hat. I’m like bullshit, there is absolutely no fucking way you’re gonna walk up. And I mean they got these flowers; I don’t even know what they’re called starts with a p. Anyway, so there’s the flowers that like stair up to it and all that bullshit. Well anyways, We’re like nah there’s no way you’re gonna get that hat. Well, the last night we’re there, were kind of be boppin out of there and there’s this lady up against the lion taking pictures with the lion. And they have it roped off to where you can’t really go in. Well, this lady’s in there. Taking pictures and we didn’t think nothing of it and next thing I know Clays like “Watch this.” We were like no fucking way is this kid trying to steal this cowboy hat. Well sure enough here’s old Clay walking up the backside of this. And you could see exactly where we walks up. Like these flowers are just laid over and anyways were sitting there and he’s up there, arm around the lion just be boppin around you know. Nothing’s going on really. Well next thing you know he reaches up for the hat and he’s trying to get it off and he’s like “This thing is kind of heavy” and I mean there is cowboys and just people all around just hooping and just giving him the “just take it, just do it” everybody is just giving this guy the go ahead let’s do it, you’re taking this hat, you’ve gotta do it. So he’s up there and he’s got this hat and he can’t get it off the head of the lion and someone yells security and I mean here comes this rent a cop dude just coming mock 90 but he’s probably going about 2 mph like whatever. Me and Colt Honey and Clay, we just zoom out different doors I mean we are haulin ass and then it took us forever but we finally found a video of this. Clay adds on, “I thought the hat, like I knew it was big but it’s like three times my size it’s a full size hat and I got up there and I mean I’m a stout guy and I barely budged it. It kinda knocked it off. I had to leave the next day and they took a photo the next night and the hats just crooked.” Logan picks back up and finishes his story, “So Clay runs outta there and this chick is like “Hey are you the guy that was trying to steal the cowboy hat?” And Clays like “Yes I did darlin” “Yep I darlin’ed her and then we hopped into a party bus and we rode into the night.” To which they both laughed about and reminisced with an "Oh Vegas," in unison.
Kenline and Clay have had some eventful times in their 20 something years of life and I’m sure they’ll have plenty more. So, be sure to stay up to date with Rank Tales from the Rodeo Trail for more from these two and many others along the way!
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