I don't want that cow and horse crap messin' up my nice new football stadium, dammit!!! Stay in the dome. os
I really like the new stadium, but I wish they would keep it at the dome. It's a tradition. All they're keeping it for now is high school football games and to impress the Olympic Committee with. If we don't get the Olympic bid, it'll be gone in a few years and I would hate to see it leave.
Poor old Dome. It's still a perfectly good building and no one wants it. Remember when it was the eighth wonder of the world?
Here, here... keep those stinky cows and chickens and idiot, inbred, animal abusers who pay $600,000 for an animal to slaughter all in the 'Dome, not to mention all that country music, unsafe carnival rides and toxic smoke from BBQ's!! I HATE RODEO TIME! can you tell?
Without Rodeo support, Reliant Stadium might not have gotten off the ground. So, for that reason only, bring on the horse crap.
btw, I sit next to a kid whose family participates in the Rodeo. He travels to Rodeos across Texas. I think he's from some small West Texas town. He hates Houston, and he isn't shy to make fun of us. This is the kinda people the Rodeo brings in.
I knew that would be brought up and it's a valid point. Speaking of the rodeo...did anyone see the highlight from the kid calf run on Sports Sunday last night? Some boy grabbed a calf by the rear two legs. The boy was on his back...the calf ended up sitting on the kids face. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life. The rodeo announcer kept yelling for the kid to keep is mouth closed. Classic. os
I'm not a real big fan of tying a rope around a bulls nutsack and all that other animal cruelty stuff, but the carnival and stuff outside the dome was pretty cool. I ate the best smoked turkey leg EVER on Friday night...
No, I'm a big fan of turkeys getting their LEGS cut off...and put inside a smoker for an hour and a half... MMMMM...Meat...
If you're gonna cuts its nutsack off and eat it, that's one thing... but if you're gonna tie up it's nutsack and ride it, for sport(?) that's BS. Instead of having little kids running after little calves, why don't we have little bulls with little horns chasing and goring little kids decked out in western wear!! Now I'd pay to see that!
The rodeo brings in many people from all over the world, not just country. My uncle is the county agent in Medina County (which is just west of San Antonio). Part of his job is to tour the rodeo circuit with the FFA and FHA from the high schools. He's been doing it for the last 20 years at least. My cousin won a calf in the calf scramble one year, and she got more beaten up than the calf did. That calf she raised went on to be runner up Grand Champion Steer. The rodeo really helps these kids out to further their educations. The rodeo not only brings money into town, but it also gives so much back. The rodeo supports so many kids and teaches them how to be responsible. I know the type of mentality you're referring to though. My uncle hates Houston, but he's from a town of about 2000 people. Even though he's been coming here for 20 some odd years, he's never bothered to learn the city or the people. He stereotypes Houstonians just like you stereotyped "this kinda people." The animals are raised specifically to go to slaughter, which I know won't change the minds of any activists, but it's not like they're pets. My Grandfather has owned his own ranch in La Grange and near Crawford since my mom was a little girl, so he's working on 50 years. And my uncle has one as well. They take such good care of their animals. I was there this past weekend and two baby calfs had just been born. It was the neatest thing. And the meat from his cows is so much better than anything you can buy. It's fresher, cleaner, and less fatty. And it saves our whole family a lot of money on steaks and meat. Do you think it's cruel to raise a steer? Because all a steer is is a bull that's been castrated, no different than any of your pets. I've never seen a study done about the harm to rodeo livestock, but I'd gladly read one if it's not bogus. The bulls only ride for about 8 seconds and they seem to walk off afterwards like nothing ever happened. There are so many animals caretakers, ranchers, doctors (vets) that study these animals. And my family really knows and cares about their animals. They'd never let anything do much harm to them.
Yep, castration doesn't bother us chicks. And when we first heard the Lorena Bobbitt story, most of us had a good laugh. On the other hand, please don't bring up things like pierced nipples...
Just because it hurts man does not mean it hurts the bull in the same way. It hurts women a lot to be hit in the chest, but it doesn't hurt men the same way. I'm sure it hurts. You can tell by the way the animal behaves. But does anyone really know how the animal feels?
Not to lose my temper or anything, Princess, but... ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME?!?! If it didn't hurt the bull, do you think they would spend so much energy trying to buck the rider off? It doesn't matter if you're a human, dog, cat, bull, wallaby, three toed sloth, whatever... Balls are balls! ...and yes, I have been punched in the chest, and it hurts like hell...
I know it hurts the bull. That's why he bucks. But animals do not react to pain in the same way humans do. I don't know that they feel the same way either. Pain is pain but I don't think it's all the same. Being punched in the chest is so much different for a woman and a man. I plain punch anywhere hurts but that is a particularly sensitive area for women (like the balls are for men).
