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Location: Puky midwest | Its a joke!! If he owns the dirt, let him take it home and use it in his pens.
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Douglas J Gordon - 2016-02-16 8:06 AM skye - 2016-02-13 8:28 PM I hope the grounds committee would get it where there was a tractor rake after 5 and 10. I think that would help a lot to keep the ground consistent for all barrel racers. They just need to throw in a few commercials like the TV time outs in a college and NFL football games.
I will say this - at the URA Finals here in Kansas, we tractor drag every 5 during the barrel race & after the 15th runner, and still, barrel racing is BY FAR the quickest event all night. All it requires is that the tractor man be ready, someone be at the gate to let him in, and as soon as the 5th girl crosses the time line, he is in the arena. I bet it wouldn't add 3-4 minutes to the rodeo if they did a quick drag after 5 & 10. Until you put a stopwatch to it, you have no idea how fast those drags can be done. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | rodeowithjoker - 2016-02-17 4:36 PM Douglas J Gordon - 2016-02-16 8:06 AM skye - 2016-02-13 8:28 PM I hope the grounds committee would get it where there was a tractor rake after 5 and 10. I think that would help a lot to keep the ground consistent for all barrel racers. They just need to throw in a few commercials like the TV time outs in a college and NFL football games.
I don't know what a URA is but it would add much more than a total of 3-4 minutes and when you are dealing wiht TV time, contractual time limits etc. you do not have that leeway
I seem to recall that they are contractually obligated to complete the rodeo in 2 hours or less and I would assume that is because the City of LV wants the folks who's butts are in those seats to be back in the casino's spending money.
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Location: SE KS | 1DSoon - 2016-02-17 3:46 PM rodeowithjoker - 2016-02-17 4:36 PM Douglas J Gordon - 2016-02-16 8:06 AM skye - 2016-02-13 8:28 PM I hope the grounds committee would get it where there was a tractor rake after 5 and 10. I think that would help a lot to keep the ground consistent for all barrel racers. They just need to throw in a few commercials like the TV time outs in a college and NFL football games.
I seem to recall that they are contractually obligated to complete the rodeo in 2 hours or less and I would assume that is because the City of LV wants the folks who's butts are in those seats to be back in the casino's spending money.
1Dsoon - URA stands for United Rodeo Association
They are under a time limit to get the rodeo ran off
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | They use to hand rake after each run and that sure was better then nothing. Don't have a clue why they stopped but it seems it was stopped the year the Barrel Racers were part of the PRCA. |
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Location: That part of Texas | sliddenaround - 2016-02-16 3:47 PM Its a joke!! If he owns the dirt, let him take it home and use it in his pens.
He's selling it bit by bit. It's been "blessed by the boots of countless champions"  and some pretty important stuff, don't you know? Get yours while it's on sale!
http://www.prorodeogear.com/national-finals-rodeo/novelties/official-arena-dirt.html?___store=www_prorodeogear_nfr_com
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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I really thought it was a joke when I saw the ground for sale in a bottle. I find it really scary that people would actually buy it. |
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Location: The Great Northwest |  HA! May be a chance Shawn is thinking of replacing the dirt! He is selling the old sentimental dirt to pay for the new dirt? |
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