GREELEY — For many rodeo professionals, taking time out for injuries can’t happen — either they can’t afford to give up a paycheck, or they just won’t quit.
At the Greeley Stampede, the Justin Sports Medicine Team partnered with Banner Health to keep cowboys taped, stitched and bound together.
Wacey Munsell, 29, of Ulysses, Kan., for instance, continued bullfighting Thursday night with a fractured fibula. He’s been bullfighting professionally for about 12 years, like his father and grandfather before him. This is the second time he’s fractured his fibula. He has half an anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He had shoulder surgery three years ago. He’s also broken his nose and hands multiple times.
“If you don’t work, you don’t eat,” Munsell said.
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