BROTHER-N-LAWS BREAKS INTO THE TEAM ROPING INDUSTRY
THE VISION STARTED ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO IN A SMALL CENTRAL
TEXAS BACK YARD. JASON BOTTOMS AND KIRBY HILL ORDERED AN ARENA
AND DECIDED TO HAVE A FEW MONTHLY JACKPOTS. IN ORDER TO KEEP UP
WITH THE EXPENSES OF THE ARENA, CATTLE AND ELECTRICITY, AND ANY
OTHER EXPENSES THEY OCCURRED. JASON IS A PRCA PICK-UP MAN WHO
HAS BEEN VOTED TWICE TO THE TEXAS CIRCUIT FINALS AND A COWBOY
IN HIS SPARE TIME AND KIRBY IS A POLICE OFFICER AND LANDSCAPER
SO THE TEAM ROPING KINDA HAD TO FALL INTO WHAT EVER TIME THEY
HAD LEFT OVER. THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU THEY COULD NOT
HAVE DONE IT WITH OUT THE HELP OF THERE FAMILIES FROM WIFE AND
KIDS TO THERE COUSIN SHANE. AFTER GETTING THE ARENA UP AND PLANNING
THEIR FIRST EVENT ONE PROBLEM AROSE “WE HAD NO LIGHTS AND
WERE EXPECTING A LARGE TURN OUT!!!!!” WELL NO FEAR KIRBY
HAD A FRIEND WHO HAD ACCESS TO SOME LARGE PORTABLE CONSTRUCTION
LIGHTS AND THEY WERE IN BUSINESS!! AFTER THAT ROPING KIRBY MADE
A DEAL WITH A LOCAL ELECTRICIAN AND MADE A SWAP FOR LIGHTS IN
EXCHANGE FOR KIRBY LANDSCAPING HIS YARD AND MOWING HIS YARD FOR
THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF, KIRBY ALSO OWNS A LAWN MAINTNANCE COMPANY,
WHICH CAME IN HANDY FOR THIS SITUATION. IN THE BEGINNING JASON
WAS THE VETREN TEAM ROPER WHO HAD ALL THE CONTACTS AND NEW THE
INS AND OUTS OF THE TEAM ROPING INDUSTRY, KIRBY SERVED MOSTLY
AS A VISIONARY OR WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL A DREAMER. KIRBY WOULD BE
THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT HE CAME UP WITH SOME WILD AND OUTRAGOUS
TEAM ROPINGS THAT WOULD NEVER DRAW A SINGLE TEAM BUT JASON WOULD
ALWAYS SAY YEAH THAT’S FINE WHAT EVER YOU THINK. LUCKILY
THEY NEVER WENT FORWARD ON ANY OF THE HAIRBRAIN SCHEMES!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WASN’T UNTIL AFTER HAVING BACK YARD JACKPOTS DRAWING
AS MANY AS 500 TEAMS IN A DAY THAT KIRBY BEGAN TO MAKE HIS ROUNDS
THROUGHOUT TEXAS HITTING EVERY TEAMROPING KNOWN TO MAN. HE THEN
MADE HUNDREDS OF CONTACTS AND FRIENDS AND BEGAN TO IMAGINE A ROPING
THAT WOULD APPEAL TO HIM AS A TEAM ROPER. IN THE EARLY FALL OF
2003 BROTHER-N-LAWS WENT OUT ON A LIMB AND PLANNED A ROPING IN
ATHENS, TX TO GIVE AWAY 10 SADDLES AND 10 GIST BUCKLES. TO KIRBY
WHO WAS A LOW NUMBERED TEAM ROPER HE REMEMBERED THAT ALL HE WANTED
TO WIN WAS A BUCKLE AND AFTER HE WON ONE ALL HE WANTED WAS TO
WIN A SADDLE!!! SO HOW ABOUT HAVING A ROPING WHERE YOU HAD A CHANCE
TO WIN BOTH AND THEY DID AND THE TEAM ROPERS CAME!!! THEIR FIRST
ROPING THEY HAD A LITTLE OVER 600 TEAMS WHICH TICKLED THEM TO
DEATH AND POURED GAS ON THE FIRE TO CONTINUE TO RISE TOWARDS THE
TOP OF THE TEAM ROPING BUSINESS!! YOU CAN ASK EITHER BROTHER-N-LAW
WHY THEY CONTINUE TO PUT THE ROPINGS ON AND THEY’LL TELL
YOU HOW MUCH FUN IT IS TO SEE HUNDREDS OF TEAM ROPERS COME TOGETHER
AND COMPETE AT A FUNCTION YOU’VE WORKED SO HARD AT PUTTING
TOGETHER!! “COME ROPE WITH BROTHER-N-LAWS” AND YOU’LL
SEE WE’RE THE LAID BACK PRIZE PACKED FAMILY TEAM ROPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brother-n-Laws Productions
8924 S. Hwy 287
Corsicana, TX 75109
903-875-8130 | 903-875-8601
