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| SKM - 2016-09-08 7:04 PM
I do think it ironic that in 2016, Fallon hardly did any WPRA rodeos stating that she wanted to support the ERA, do clinics and not travel as much.
Now that the WPRA has said that you can't be a stock holder or on the board of the ERA and compete in the WPRA, she is now telling people to call the WPRA and tell them what they think about her being banned from an association she has been a member of for 26 years. This year it was HER choice not to compete. Now that it's not her choice, she has a bit of an issue?
I think it is very different to be banned from an organization because you are apart of another one. She has the choice to haul as much or as little as she chooses. Many people are WPRA and don't compete hard. I think the clinics and stuff she has held and focusing on a organization she can logically do alongside the clinics, it s smart move.
I don't have a dog in the ERA/WPRA/PRCA fight. I am somewhat confused as to why it is such an issue. . . so many barrel racing organizations that don't anger eachother. So many co-sanction. Maybe I don't understand fully. |
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| GLP - 2016-09-08 6:44 PM It will be interesting seeing who chooses which organization to compete in.
I'm pretty good friends with some of the saddle bronc ridders. Everyone of them that chose ERA are seriously regretting that decision and will likely abandon it within the year. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Whiteboy - 2016-09-09 12:27 PM GLP - 2016-09-08 6:44 PM It will be interesting seeing who chooses which organization to compete in. I'm pretty good friends with some of the saddle bronc ridders. Everyone of them that chose ERA are seriously regretting that decision and will likely abandon it within the year.
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Location: Texas | It is NOT a D format according to what I heard. Doubt it ever would be as this is her way of replacing her rodeo income from the rodeos and the failing ERA. Just a way for her to pad her pockets with cash from her trusting "Sheep". After all they are dieing to watch her and Baby Flo!!!! Oh, and as for her 1 second penalty for a dropped barrel? LOL she must be planning ahead on hitting a few, so she has made sure she covered that possibility in her favor.
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| Cowjazz - 2016-09-09 11:31 AM
It is NOT a D format according to what I heard. Doubt it ever would be as this is her way of replacing her rodeo income from the rodeos and the failing ERA. Just a way for her to pad her pockets with cash from her trusting "Sheep". After all they are dieing to watch her and Baby Flo!!!! Oh, and as for her 1 second penalty for a dropped barrel? LOL she must be planning ahead on hitting a few, so she has made sure she covered that possibility in her favor.
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Location: SW MO | I don't even want to say anything BUT- something really bothers me in the way that the WPRA was spoke about and laughed about in the video. Just my thoughts. |
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| My 2 cents: I think it's absolutely and utterly ridiculous that the PRCA and WPRA can ban shareholders. I guess I don't understand why it is an issue. This is like me having both my ammy rodeo card and wpra card. Both seperate associations, yet not banned from either. I pick and choose where I want to run, if I don't want to travel far and consistently so be it. Each makes their own rules, and some rodeos in my area are even co-sanctioned ammy & prca. Anyone who has children think of this scenario: traveling tournament teams are usually for kids that show a decent amount of skill and are able to compete on a higher level. Because they are on that traveling team, should they be banned from high school ball?
I know this is a touchy subject, but I guess I don't understand why everyone can't play nice. Maybe because some of the people who did not get chosen for the "elite" are fueling the ERA backlash, who knows. I see where fallon is coming from, I have favorite rodeos and arenas I like running in. So yes, it'd be disappointing to be banned from them.
ETA: Fallon did not ban every pro rodeo, she ran in some also. Not as many as she would to qualify for the NFR, but then again when she was qualifying for the NFR she definitely was not doing clinics or promoting/selling her brand like she is now. Not saying I'm sure fallon junkie, but she does deserve some respect over being upset towards the ban.
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Location: MD | Cowjazz - 2016-09-09 11:31 AM
It is NOT a D format according to what I heard. Doubt it ever would be as this is her way of replacing her rodeo income from the rodeos and the failing ERA. Just a way for her to pad her pockets with cash from her trusting "Sheep". After all they are dieing to watch her and Baby Flo!!!! Oh, and as for her 1 second penalty for a dropped barrel? LOL she must be planning ahead on hitting a few, so she has made sure she covered that possibility in her favor.
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Do you honestly think she needs her "rodeo income"? You spend as much as you make. I'm pretty sure her business ventures are lining her pockets and a couple of bank vaults by now. Whether you like her and her practices or not, you have to see that she is doing well in business |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | epoh - 2016-09-09 12:41 PM My 2 cents: I think it's absolutely and utterly ridiculous that the PRCA and WPRA can ban shareholders. I guess I don't understand why it is an issue. This is like me having both my ammy rodeo card and wpra card. Both seperate associations, yet not banned from either. I pick and choose where I want to run, if I don't want to travel far and consistently so be it. Each makes their own rules, and some rodeos in my area are even co-sanctioned ammy & prca. Anyone who has children think of this scenario: traveling tournament teams are usually for kids that show a decent amount of skill and are able to compete on a higher level. Because they are on that traveling team, should they be banned from high school ball? I know this is a touchy subject, but I guess I don't understand why everyone can't play nice. Maybe because some of the people who did not get chosen for the "elite" are fueling the ERA backlash, who knows. I see where fallon is coming from, I have favorite rodeos and arenas I like running in. So yes, it'd be disappointing to be banned from them.
They are not going to play nice because they are all fighting for the same finite amount of dollars.
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Cowjazz - 2016-09-09 12:31 PM It is NOT a D format according to what I heard. Doubt it ever would be as this is her way of replacing her rodeo income from the rodeos and the failing ERA. Just a way for her to pad her pockets with cash from her trusting "Sheep". After all they are dieing to watch her and Baby Flo!!!! Oh, and as for her 1 second penalty for a dropped barrel? LOL she must be planning ahead on hitting a few, so she has made sure she covered that possibility in her favor.
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| 1DSoon - 2016-09-09 11:28 AM Whiteboy - 2016-09-09 12:27 PM GLP - 2016-09-08 6:44 PM It will be interesting seeing who chooses which organization to compete in. I'm pretty good friends with some of the saddle bronc ridders. Everyone of them that chose ERA are seriously regretting that decision and will likely abandon it within the year.
I would love to have an autograph from Cody DeMoss's moostash
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Location: Where I am happiest | In all honesty, quite frankly I cant believe anybody would waste a horse like Baby Flo pulling runs out for some five and dime peanut team jackpot.  |
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| There's something so insincere about FT. I've been around her a few times, been parked next to her at jackpots and such. She's nice enough but she has to be the star of the show. I get how young girls are drawn to her. Her "squad" is quite a bit younger than her, it's always changing and she never hauls alone. |
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| iloveequine40 - 2016-09-09 1:28 PM
There's something so insincere about FT. I've been around her a few times, been parked next to her at jackpots and such. She's nice enough but she has to be the star of the show. I get how young girls are drawn to her. Her "squad" is quite a bit younger than her, it's always changing and she never hauls alone.
Pretty much what my daughter said when she was in North Texas. |
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| iloveequine40 - 2016-09-09 1:28 PM There's something so insincere about FT. I've been around her a few times, been parked next to her at jackpots and such. She's nice enough but she has to be the star of the show. I get how young girls are drawn to her. Her "squad" is quite a bit younger than her, it's always changing and she never hauls alone.
Her hubby was younger than her as well. Not that it means anything...just came to mind when you mentioned this. |
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| SKM - 2016-09-08 7:04 PM
I do think it ironic that in 2016, Fallon hardly did any WPRA rodeos stating that she wanted to support the ERA, do clinics and not travel as much.
Now that the WPRA has said that you can't be a stock holder or on the board of the ERA and compete in the WPRA, she is now telling people to call the WPRA and tell them what they think about her being banned from an association she has been a member of for 26 years. This year it was HER choice not to compete. Now that it's not her choice, she has a bit of an issue?
If I recall correctly, at the time she announced her decision that she evaluated how much money she had won to that date and it was her feeling that she had not won enough money to keep going to try to qualify as she would have to haul super hard and she didn't want to do that to her horse. So she was opting to focus on the ERA and clinics for the remainder of the 2016 year. She said she would try to qualify in 2017.
I took this to mean that if she had more money won when she made here decision, she would have kept going. |
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| scwebster - 2016-09-09 1:34 PM
iloveequine40 - 2016-09-09 1:28 PM There's something so insincere about FT. I've been around her a few times, been parked next to her at jackpots and such. She's nice enough but she has to be the star of the show. I get how young girls are drawn to her. Her "squad" is quite a bit younger than her, it's always changing and she never hauls alone.
Her hubby was younger than her as well. Not that it means anything...just came to mind when you mentioned this.Â
Yes and he was really nice too. I just never see her partnering/hauling/promoting with other fellow barrel racers to help grow the sport. She always seems to have young, impressionable girls that she can mold her way, which is fine. I just think it's more about self promotion and that's fine too. I'll be quiet now and save my psychological analysis to myself bc she is successful at what she's doing :) |
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Location: South Central Florida | I guess it's been discussed to death. I think I decided I don't like the ERA idea. Well, I guess the idea could be done, but I don't like the idea of how people are qualified as contestants. And the idea that is is totally built on the backs of a different association. Then try to compete with that association for rodeo's and money.
If it were just another totally different association, I would say GO! I don't know how I feel about the banning issue. I guess I don't think the ERA will make it. Its kind of comes off as an arrogant place. Plus the one I watched had the little girl, forget her name, but she is like 8 or 10. How can someone that young be an ERA contestant? That goes against the idea of the association to begin with as I understood it.
I don't think it will last. I wasnt' familiar with a third of the names running at the one I watched on TV, and kind of figured it's not going to make it.
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| I watched several of the televised ERA rodeos and was not impressed, and it wasn't just the barrel racing either. Everybody looked rusty. |
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