Sunday Conversation: Donnie Gay, 8-time world bull riding champ, on auto-pilot

[@crowhaven200]

I miss you Donnie Gay! Enjoyed your amazing riding career, and you are the best announcer of all time too. Great to hear your voice!

[@durango1487]

I could listen to Donnie Gay announce ANY sport and he'd make it great - and a riding legend

[@anthonydescheenie1132]

Mr. Donny Gay is the word greatest athlete of all time, 8 times World Champion Bullrider, he competed against the world greatest bucking bulls that where 1600 to 2000 pounds of pure muscle,that says it all, God Bless Don Gay and his father Mr. Neil Gay

[@mikenichols5638]

Donnie you were my hero ! Ridding with you and working with your dad Neal was such an honor and privilege for me . I can’t omit the honor of knowing your dad and Jim Shoulders. Y’all were always a cowboys cowboy . Thank you for all the years of interaction . Mike Nichols

[@johnpierce2095]

he should be 9 time world champion

[@texantillidie10001]

Agreed. Nothing against Butch Kirby, but Donny should've been the champ in 1978 as well

[@jimbuckers7939]

Great American World Champ!

[@lanehenkle6400]

A true legend of the sport!

[@jimbuckers7939]

Awsome interview

[@mikenichols5638]

Donnie you were always a great inspiration when I was riding. Your dad was always one of the most encouraging contractors. Hope to see you gain at Mesquite !

[@tboudreau5239]

My best friend in high school was rusty riddle's sister and dated his brother for a while. Loved going to their mesquite rodeos. Thanks for the fun!!!!

[@randycrew]

Don, finally found your videos and audios and I remember you so often riding and announcing ... you make men like me smile as I look back at your career but your interest in flying is what you and I really have in common... my first lesson was October 27, 1974... almost 46 years, 5 type ratings and 23,000 hrs later... I, like you still enjoy flying and I still love watching these guys and gals riding in the rodeos... a wonderful time ... I would have loved to have traded flying story’s ... I think we would have been good friends... I just turned 64.retire in 11 months. Wishing you and your family all the best!

[@markelder4944]

Donny Gay was always my favorite I saw him once in Odessa Texas when I was A kid

[@oldermusiclover]

only got to see his videos but loved him as a broadcasters

[@tyhouston2750]

Key: You went by the rules, or you got punished. Valuable life lesson.

[@oldermusiclover]

AMEN Donny about the cell phones and driving

[@tamaracolbert1435]

Good interwiew Champ.you still got it.~Duane Colbert~

[@brianalexander4380]

Donald Gay I just want to say thank you, because I was watching some rerun bull riding events and finally it looks good, they see it from in the shoot, then you open it up and right out the gate and they make some good rides, and with your help talking to them all wanting them all to ride and they do good. Even the little number on a good bull. PRCA explains it better with Donald Gay, the PBR with Craig Hummer I’m not real sure I’ll let you make that call about him and what they do. Anyways sorry about your last name does not mean you are. Thank you for what you do. Because I keep watching old events on the one channel. And prca makes it look better. Good job. Back then only if they could do it today I would love to help

[@ferristhoughts2186]

Legend.

[@bradenlewis2160]

Jim Shoulders!! Wasnt henfrom Henrietta ok?

[@brianalexander4380]

But tv can be magic in all kinds of ways and I enjoy watching golf so relaxing and they make some good shots

[@oldermusiclover]

does he do autographs would love to have one and great for the littler people

[@brianalexander4380]

I be watching it on the pbr channel

[@tobyjenny7622]

Is this rodeo still on the air and if so what channel I watched this one every Sunday when I was a kid

[@brianalexander4380]

Finally some one knows what he is talking about because Craig hummer not really sure about

[@dyanswill]

I had the biggest crush on Donnie. He asked me out one time, I should've accepted but I thought he was married then.

[@Jeff-bt8yx]

Is Jerry Nelson still your boss? Why Frontier over Rafter G?

[@JohnDavis-yz9nq]

I agree with him about texting and driving. At least a drunk is looking where he is going and trying to drive. No one can tell Donnie Gay a thing about bull riding that he doesn’t already know. He has always had a good head on his shoulders except the years he smoked cigarettes and that wasn’t too smart but that was because he had bad role models probably. When Donnie left the PBR they lost a good commentator. I quit watching the PBR too.

[@jeremiahlesleawilder5329]

He mentioned getting run over by the pbr bus he left out the part they backed up and burned out on him he got screwed and so did a bunch of other guys if you do a documentary on bull riding and u don’t mention Donnie or tuff u ain’t threw period

[@oldermusiclover]

can I ask what happened

[@Paul11B2P]

Yes, does anybody know what happened? I know Tuff left the PBR under some sort of disagreement and started the CBR which is no longer around. What happened with Donnie and the PBR?

[@loghawgtv]

If you wanna know how good Donny is…. Just ask him…

[@coyroberts8356]

😎

[@jasonnester9514]

Amazing years ago how guys would be champs years in a row and today a guy might get it 2-3x are guys not as good these days or are the bulls harder now

[@j.ibanezsr2060]

My Cowboy Hero..

[@andresmancillavaldez2009]

“If you’re ready to be a paraplegic, you’re ready to ride bulls”

[@frankdodgee]

Huge difference in parenting these days. Kids need NO responsibility and they all get a trophy. Boooo

[@jefferyschirm4103]

Wonder how many disabled bull riders he knows ?!!

[@HarryYazzie-n1m]

No ķķ,

[@denzelanderson9454]

Don's head hit the ground toooooo many times. JS