Since it moved to Vegas everybody got money hungry unlike the generations before them who made a living in rodeo by not living so high on the hog.
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: Jim Bob, I agree.
: I don't have a dog in the fight, but this is
: what I see as an outside observer.
: I don't mean to offend anyone, especially
: the guys on here that have made a living
: rodeoing, but nobody is being forced to
: rodeo for a living. No one is
: "entitled" to reach a certain
: level then be guaranteed to make money. A
: fraction of college level football players
: go on to play in the NFL. Only a portion of
: those make the kind of money that they will
: not have to work after their career is over.
: I would LOVE to see each round of the NFR
: pay $100,000 to win and $ 1 mil to win the
: average, but the funds are not there. I
: have said it before that pro players do not
: get paid for how good/talented they are.
: They get paid according to the
: merchandise/tickets they sell (individually
: or as a team).
: With a large population of the U.S. that is
: completely ignorant of farming/ranching they
: just as soon that rodeo go away or at a
: minimum they do not care. It will never be
: football or baseball. I hate it, but that
: is just the way it is.
:
: “I want to prolong my rodeo career as long
: as I can,” said the bareback bronc rider
: Kaycee Feild, who is closing in on his fifth
: consecutive world title. “ I think this
: statement sums it up. I want to prolong my
: career, when they keep talking about
: improving rodeo. I don't know that he meant
: it that way, but that is how I read it.
:
: To say the least the PRCA needs to be
: revamped/torn down and rebuilt, but diluting
: things I do not think will help. It is
: supposed to be a member run organization.
: If I was making a living in the PRCA, I
: would be encouraging everyone to hang out on
: the steps of the headquarters and pressure
: the powers that be to make the changes that
: need to be made. Taking your toys and
: starting another sandbox (while still using
: the other parties toys) doesn't seem like
: the answer.
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: KC Jones makes a good point. Maybe there
: will
: be many new guys competing at the NFR next
: year. If a contestant gets tired of
: traveling and competing, they could stay
: home.
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: Yes the PBR guys can enter the PRCA rodeos,
: but have to go to the PBR events when they
: are scheduled. So no turning out at the
: PBR.
:
: The PRCA in their new by laws do not apply
: to any single event competition, just rodeo
: organizations.
:
: I thought it was just board members until I
: read that article and it stated that all the
: contestants in the ERA have an investment
: percentage of the organization.
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: Roany: Thanks for posting. How does the PBR
: and PRCA divide up the bull riders? Can they
: belong and compete in both associations at
: the same time?
:
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: After reading the article is says:
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: 80 of the top athletes, each given an
: ownership share of the new enterprise.
:
: So I guess if you are competing you are a
: part of the rodeo organization.
:
: I have jokingly said I felt the sponsors
: controlled where the contestants competed.
: Then I read this:
:
: Wrangler, for example, is the title sponsor
: for the National Finals Rodeo but has
: contracts with many top cowboys requiring
: them to compete at a minimum number of
: events.
:
: Not all top cowboys support E.R.A. The
: veteran steer wrestler K. C. Jones offered
: his support for the P.R.C.A. in a
: declaration filed with the court.
:
: “They are not seeking to improve the lives
: of cowboys competing on the circuit,” he
: wrote of those starting E.R.A. “They are
: attempting to take money away from them by
: creating a competing organization that will
: drive the money in the industry to certain
: anointed ‘stars’ (i.e., themselves), while
: reserving the right to participate in the
: P.R.C.A events with the biggest purses.
:
: Plus there are some more listed in the
: article below;
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: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/sports/elite-rodeo-athletes-pro-rodeo-cowboys-association.html?_r=0
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