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Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Prominent cowboys say they are defecting from PRCA
Professional rodeo’s most prominent cowboys say they are defecting
from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to form their own
organization, but they are coy about their views on the future of the
National Finals Rodeo or any other major rodeo event in Las Vegas. The
biggest names in rodeo led by 11-time world all-around champion Trevor
Brazile — the LeBron James of the rodeo world — signed a statement
posted on Facebook this week saying it’s time for the sport’s top
contestants to be directly involved in the sport’s future. One of
the organizers, steer wrestler K.C. Jones, on Tuesday confirmed the
efforts to leave the PRCA and start a different rodeo cowboy
organization. “It’s an exciting time for professional rodeo,”
Jones told the Review-Journal. He noted cowboys are already talking with
rodeo committees and venues about events outside of Colorado Springs,
Colo.-based PRCA, the sport’s governing body. Charly Crawford, a
seven-time qualifier in the NFR’s team roping category, said the
motivation behind the efforts is that the sport’s top cowboys want a
bigger voice in the PRCA’s decision-making process. Crawford said the
NFR draws the top 120 cowboys, but their voices are not heard at the
PRCA board meetings. Overall, there were 5,071 PRCA contestant card
holders in 2013. Crawford also said a concern is big rodeos such as Calgary and Houston are breaking away from PRCA’s governance. And
with the PRCA flirting with moving the NFR — the sport’s Super Bowl —
to Osceola County in Central Florida starting in 2015, Las Vegas might
be another city that starts its own major rodeo event outside of the
PRCA banner. “It started a trend now. It’s a big concern for us,”
Crawford said of rodeo cities starting non-PRCA sanctioned events.
Crawford said talk of the sport’s biggest stars participating in an
independent Las Vegas rodeo if the PRCA moves the NFR to Osceola County
has surfaced. “We’d like to talk to Las Vegas,” Crawford said of the top cowboys...more
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