What better way to celebrate a Friday than with a Flashback photo of rodeo legend and ProRodeo Hall of Famer Larry Mahan? Mahan, arguably the biggest superstar in rodeo history, passed away on May 7, 2023. He was 79. Mahan was the Rodeo Cowboys Association All-Around World Champion in 1966-1970 and 1973. He was the RCA Bull Riding World Champion in 1965 and 1967. He qualified for the NFR a combined 26 times from 1964-75 in bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, and bull riding. He was inducted into the inaugural class of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1979. In the photo above, taken by Bern Gregory, Larry Mahan had a 71-point ride on Calgary Stampede's Tuffy in Round 3 of the 1973 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Okla.