Tuff Hedeman actually did ride an extra eight seconds in memory of Lane.
At the time of filming, a bronze memorial statue of Lane Frost riding a bull was dedicated at the Frontier Days Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Luke Perry attended the dedication, as did Frost's parents and widow.
Stephen Baldwin quietly donated his earnings from this movie to the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, which provides financial assistance to cowboys injured during rodeos.
Kellie Frost was not in attendance when Lane was killed. At the time, she was a consultant for My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991), and was on-set during filming.
The poem that Cody Lambert m reads on the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming is actually a shortened collection of stanzas from a poem called "Legacy of a Rodeo Man" by Baxter Black.