It’s football season and New Yorkers are chanting for the cowboys.

No, not the Dallas Cowboys. Get real.

Professional Bull Riders, a sport that mixes rodeo grit with arena-sized spectacle, is making inroads in New York. On Thursday, the New York Mavericks — the city’s pro bull riding team — kicks off a three-day homestand at UBS Arena in Elmont , drawing other riding teams from across the nation and fans from across the metro area.

It’s a long way from the early days.

Mavericks head coach Kody Lostroh rode at Madison Square Garden at the debut event there in 2007, when PBR execs had to hand out tickets on 7th Avenue to get people in the seats. Lostroh, a 2009 PBR World Champion and 10-time World Finals qualifier, grew up in Northern Colorado and thought it looked like fun.

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