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Location: Stephenville, TX | ktbarrelhorses - 2013-10-24 9:41 AM Okay so did anyone see half the girls Jr. Rodeo... for real found all the girls on Twitter and i've never heard of one of them but I sure hope they can stay classy and treat the horses with the respect that true rodeo girls do.. thats what rodeo is about... the HORSES not the girls... my opinion.. Does anyone know these girls?
If you live in the northwest you've heard of at least a few of these ladies. I don't know how the show is going to portray them, but they are the real deal.
Here's Barb riding the hair off of Scottie Too Hottie:
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Location: Midwest | Saw this on FB. ETA: not really sure if I agree or disagree with everything said, but they stated their point pretty cogently, and I really respect their opinion. I don't rodeo, but personally I feel they could have chosen a traditionally dressed rider for the promo and it would have been much better recieved by the barrel racing community. I do think the poster is pretty tacky myself..... why the need to make it sexy... She is a very pretty girl anyway. I'm sure the menfolk would still tune in, even if she was in dress code. lol
 Hey A&E, let’s get a couple of things straight. You want to make some money telling the story of the barrel racing and rodeo cowgirl community with your new show called, “RODEO GIRLS” airing in December. Fine. You’ll probably draw a lot of viewers, particularly having rolled out your promo campaign featuring a half-dressed young woman (with a whip in her mouth) racing through the night. Sort of the “Hooters” approach to things. The problem is – real “Rodeo Girls” don’t ride horses dressed in short cut-offs and tank-tops. What you’ve done is corrupted possibly THE most wholesome, most AMERICAN sport there is and sexualized possibly THE most decent women who participate in any sport. You’ve wrongly depicted the very women you claim to be featuring in your television show in an outrageous way. A&E, for a long time you’ve been regarded as a decent cable station and your programming has been both engaging and family oriented. Has the cable TV business gotten so tough you have to pimp barrel racers to make a buck? Barrel racers, for your information, are typically pretty innocent women, many from small towns – most ranch-raised; moms, daughters even grandmothers. Women who love and care for their families, horses and above all FOR THE DIGNITY OF THE AMERICAN RODEO LEGACY. Barrel Racing is not a big money sport like golf or NASCAR. Part of the few reward Barrel Racers get is the feeling that comes from doing something “Western” – and to cheapen that is to attack our very LIFESTYLE. Mile Hi Barrel Horse Association is a major barrel racing association and considered the leading barrel racing association in the Rocky Mountain region. And we’re INSULTED by your outrageous image. Your promo is bogus and that’s all there is to it. Please don’t try to make the barrel racing community look cheap in order to attract viewers. Fair enough? Seems an easy request to honor. If you’d like to help get this message out there and stop this nonsense, here are three things you can do. 1.) SHARE THIS MESSAGE with anyone you know who barrel races, no matter where they are. 2.) “LIKE” Mile Hi Barrel Horse https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mile-Hi-Barrel-Horse/123224207735954 3.) Let A&E know how you feel, you can email them at: [email protected] Thank you. Mile Hi Barrel Horse Association Denver, Colorado — with Linda Neighbor and 5 others.
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Location: Never in one place long | heidiinaz - 2013-10-23 7:05 PM TXBO - 2013-10-23 4:55 PM BlazeFlameHarley - 2013-10-23 6:25 PM I'll watch it. If nothing else just for the entertainment. Im seeing a lot of the green-eyed monster in this post though...  
It's the society we live in because PEOPLE watch this crap and allow it to happen!!! If we don't speak up and let them know this is crap it continues... it'll be a long time before it changes if ever though with little or no one trying to change culture. |
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | Atleast its not another PETA or SHARK video  |
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| I think the poster is doing a very good job at what it's supposed to do and that is GET YOUR ATTENTION! Even though it doesn’t portray the majority of the barrel racing world, let’s face it....sex sells. I'm sure we will all be watching (whether we will admit it or not) the first few episodes. Personally I feel that the show can certainly be tastefully done and still have many viewers. I know I did not miss one episode of the show that featured Trevor Brazil on the rodeo trail before the NFR. I thought it was excellent and I loved seeing some of the things he goes through while going down the road. I guess all we can do is hope for the best! JMO  |
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Location: NC | Just Bring It - 2013-10-23 8:17 PM
hlynn - 2013-10-23 6:20 PM They could be NFR champions. Still have ZERO respect for them for being on this show. It's not even about how the sport is portrayed. It's about women in general. They are supposed to be professional athletes, not professional drama queens. They should know better. They're all adults. But I guess $$$$$$$ talks.
Maybe they don't want to haul all over the country to go for the NFR. Maybe they are happy running where they are and with what they are accomplishing. I sure think it would be fun to be on a TV show and would have to think pretty hard about it if I was asked. I think it is a once in a lifetime opportunity and they probably figure WTH not? I would rather go for it and find out it wasn't a good idea then to sit back and think what if. Barb West was a record holder with a 16.7 on a standard.
Everyone is jumping to conclusions on exactly what this show is going to be all about just from a small little promo that is like a few sentences long??? Just relax and keep an open mind. Don't get your panties in a wad over something that doesn't effect you! It is their choice to be in the show so let them worry about how it will portray them.
What I meant by that is:
They could be NFR qualifiers/champions for all I care. I still have ZERO respect for someone who is willing to act like a huzzy for some publicity. |
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Location: Midwest Farmer's Daughter: Central Illinois | LAC - 2013-10-24 11:59 AM I think the poster is doing a very good job at what it's supposed to do and that is GET YOUR ATTENTION! Even though it doesn’t portray the majority of the barrel racing world, let’s face it....sex sells. I'm sure we will all be watching (whether we will admit it or not ) the first few episodes. Personally I feel that the show can certainly be tastefully done and still have many viewers. I know I did not miss one episode of the show that featured Trevor Brazil on the rodeo trail before the NFR. I thought it was excellent and I loved seeing some of the things he goes through while going down the road. I guess all we can do is hope for the best! JMO
From what I've heard from people who have seen them filming here & there, this is not going to be anything near the show featuring Trevor. |
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Location: North Dakota | There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show.  I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.
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Location: TX | Just Bring It - 2013-10-24 12:04 PM There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show. I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.  And y'all don't even have your own show you just frequent BHW. Hey, at least the girls on the show will get paid to be who they are or who they are not! Yet, most of you are the ones that preach "togetherness" yeah right. 
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Just Bring It - 2013-10-24 12:04 PM There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show. I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.
Well….I am just getting back to this thread….and since you (and others) have referenced my 4D comment again, I will respond…….those times would NOT have placed in a 4D….plain and period! Oops, they “may” have knocked a barrel…well guess what you get a ZERO…..
They “may” be the hands that you all are trying to portray them to be but face it….the barrel racing world doesn’t need them to set us back in time. It has taken a long time for the REAL cowgirls to bring “women’s” barrel racing up to a “class act”……
Additionally, in regards to nobody watching if it was not about drama, sex, sin, and trash….WRONG……The “Jockey” series, Trevor’s series, and the “Ranch” series were all well received and watched. I don't think anyone is attacking them "personally".....only their decisions to allow themselves to be portrayed in that way for their “moment of fame”. I see it as no different as when many of you trashed the "Texas Women" series because of how it portrayed you!
Oh and PS.....no "green eyed" jealousy here.......
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Location: Arizona | I don't know anything about the girls on the show and am not going to bash them for deciding to be a part of it. However, I do think the poster and just the little bit I read about it is trashy. These women should be role models for young or up and coming barrel racers. I'm sorry, it is NOT normal to be running barrels in a bikini, hooking up with a bunch of dudes at bars, and having a diva, superficial attitude. We have an opportunity here to promote the sport of barrel racing and show how much work, time, and heart goes into it. It just saddens me that all that will be downplayed by societies false ideology of sex, drama, and attention at all costs. People won't be watching to see how hard these women work, (I'm sure they do) how good of a hand they are, their successes and heartbreaks. They will be watching to see which girl called the other a B*t&h or who gets labeled the floozy etc etc. There is so much negativity surrounding barrel racing as it is (think PETA) and I would like to see some positive promotion come to it. I want to see the sport grow in a good way, not because every young girl will want to be the next "buckle bunny." Again, I'm not saying anything about these girls personally, I'm sure the show will be entertaining, and all of us who know about barrel racing already know how tough it is. I just don't want the rest of the "world" to have a perception of barrel racing being something so tacky, and cheap. I'm sure I'm jumping to conclusions as well since it hasn't even started yet but the poster alone is enough to make me roll my eyes. |
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| BlazeFlameHarley - 2013-10-23 7:25 PM I'll watch it. If nothing else just for the entertainment. Im seeing a lot of the green-eyed monster in this post though...
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Location: Along the Caney River | to the poster that asked if it was pro girls or amatuer. Just because some of us are amatuer DOES NOT MEAN we are going to run in a bikini! Pro or Am has not bearing on what you wear! Am does not mean you are a bimbo! |
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| Just Bring It - 2013-10-24 12:04 PM There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show. I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.
LMAO! It also appears from the poster outrage that I'm the only one here that has ever witnessed a girl riding in shorts at a jackpot, clinic or rodeo.
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | TXBO - 2013-10-24 12:45 PM
Just Bring It - 2013-10-24 12:04 PM There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show. I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.
I just keep hoping nobody from here shows up at my house randomly when I am riding during the summer.... Granted I wouldnt do it in public, but I have seen it several times. |
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Location: Kansas and loving it | I do not get A&E so will not be watching, but not a big fan of reality tv anyway. The poster does not bother me that much, I would have been nice to see a split screen of a barrel racer in Dress Code. The only impression I get is that this is not serious. Just for fun. As far as the premise, I am not a great rider, but have been around enough to know; not far off the mark. |
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Location: North Dakota | TXBO - 2013-10-24 12:45 PM Just Bring It - 2013-10-24 12:04 PM There is plenty of drama on this site....I mean just on this post alone there is drama and negativity! So I don't think it will be too far fetched for them to create some drama on the show. I find it really funny that the same people on here saying that it will make us all look bad and not portray who we really are are also the ones that right away jumped on these girls and started bashing on how they couldn't ride, how they act, that they aren't professional, couldn't even place at a 4D, etc without knowing a SINLGE thing about them. Yep we sure do stand behind each other and are always a ray of sunshine and positivity.
Right!?! lol!
I know girls in the summer that ride in shorts and a bikini top because it is hot and they still want to ride and they are working on their tan and let's face it most of us are tan on top and white on the bottom! hahaha!!!! I have never done it but don't think it hasn't crossed my mind and I live in ND for crying out loud! lol Maybe it was blistering hot in Texas and she was practicing and trying to show that we work hard even in not to so perfect conditions because we do what we have to do. Maybe look at it that way?? |
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Location: Along the Caney River | Not only is it crazy she has on a bikini but the bat in the mouth thing doesn't work for me either! |
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