You should be working to fight that ban tooth and nail. Rodeo is increasing, not decreasing, in popularity (especially with the televisation of the PBR). A ban on rodeo is the will of the most extreme and flat-out ignorant people in the country. Whats worse, they portray rodeo supporters as "uneducated rednecks" in an attempt to make us look the the ones who are misinformed and uneducated. Their entire campaign is based on lies and deception.
I think you should work, perhaps with other Freepers, in your area to fight this. The animal rights movement in the country is incredibly dangerous; totalitarian in nature. I know about "Friends of Rodeo", but I sure do wish rodeo had a more popular and lucratively funded public awareness campaign to aimed at exposing the lies of PETA and the American Humane Society.
I love the bulls I compete on; by this I say I am not pleased when I get bucked off, but Bull Riding is a contest between man and animal. When I get bucked off, it means the bull won that contest and in any athletic competion there has to be a winner and loser. I have my favorite bulls where I ride and I like drawing them; I think these bulls know what their job is (to try and buck me off) and they enjoy doing it.
Jason
Plus, you have these people SHARK
What about the Odessa Rodeo and Festivial and the Plant City rodeo, are they threaten too?
I managed to be travelling through Reno this summer and went to the Reno Rodeo. A really great rodeo.