READING, Pa. \u2014 Santander Arena is being transformed into a bull-riding arena for the Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour.<\/p>\n
Over two nights, 35 riders will face off against some of the toughest bulls in the sport.<\/p>\n
Professional bull rider Michael Lane says fans should expect plenty of excitement.<\/p>\n
\u201cPBR is the toughest sport on dirt. It’s an action-packed night of excitement that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire two hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For Lane, this has been a passion for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went from sheep riding to calf riding to junior bulls. And then after that, I had a main focus on being a professional bull rider,\u201d explained Lane.<\/p>\n
And during a show, there\u2019s only one goal in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur job is just to stay on the bull eight seconds and get off as safe as we can,\u201d Lane said.<\/p>\n
Riders are scored on how well they perform. The top riders from both nights return for a final championship round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say 35 different times throughout the night, us as riders don’t know what’s going to happen and neither do the fans,\u201d said Lane.<\/p>\n
And if you\u2019ve never seen bull riding in person, organizers say this is one of the most intense live sporting events you can watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a family fun event that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time,\u201d Lane added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Santander Arena is being transformed into a bull-riding arena for the Professional Bull Riders Velocity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18996,20227,28,61308,736,128,130,129,12565],"class_list":["post-132373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bull-riding","tag-michael-lane","tag-pennsylvania","tag-professional-bull-riders","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-santander-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}