The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is getting underway again this year.<\/p>\n
But there’s been a change: the rodeo is no longer a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association sanctioned rodeo<\/a>. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a professional rodeo, or that there’s not money on the table ($1.75 million, according to the HouChron<\/strong>), just that winnings in the Houston rodeo aren’t officially counted by the PRCA, and don’t impact PRCA standings.<\/p>\n If I understand the story correctly, this doesn’t make Houston unique; some of the larger Canadian rodeos aren’t PRCA sanctioned, either, and it sounds like Houston may be trying to start up a competing rodeo circuit:<\/p>\n It already has signed a deal with Fox Sports to air the Super Series finals and Super Shootout, whereas past finals were aired only through the PRCA on pay-per-view. And bigger plans are in the works.<\/a><\/p>\n The goal is to become the top international invitational championship in the world.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It isn’t that I’m a huge rodeo fan (I’m not), but the situation is interesting. Lawrence<\/a> made a good analogy to the whole CART\/Indycar situation<\/a>, which (as I see it) seriously damaged open wheel racing in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is getting underway again this year. But there’s been a change: the rodeo is no longer a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association sanctioned rodeo. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a professional rodeo, or that there’s not money on the table ($1.75 million, according to the HouChron), just that winnings in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}