Any PRCA Rodeo Fans In Northern Colorado? (Denver, Colorado Springs: motel, living in)

[TCHP]

While the PRCA Headquarters is in Cos, there are fewer rodeos, ranches, and farming in the region than northern CO or even further south in CO. Their location in Cos was a leveraged deal full of political maneuvering, hand shakes, and good old boys figuring it all out to get it here. Several years ago they were in negotiation with Pueblo to move their operation down south to better align with PBR because they felt Pueblo was better suited to host them and had a better line on intended demographics. Again, numerous meetings, deals and negotiating led to them staying in Cos.

Colo Spgs ranching past was pretty much gone by the start of WW1. It's western heritage was perpetuated by its numerous rich, eastern beneficiaries who fancied themselves cowboys for coming out west and making their fortunes off the land and then befriending and hanging out with famous cowboys friends they brought to the Springs for these expressed purposes. There is considerably more ranching and cowboy activity along the Arkansas River Valley and the San Luis Valley than there is anywhere near Colo Spgs.

[StealthRabbit]

1) A relocation forum will have little presence of farmers / ranchers (people who stay put).
2) Rodeo is quite a narrow interest subject for a discussion forum.
3) knowledgeable, or even interested rodeo fans typically are not authors / keyboard jockeys
4) Current rodeo participants are on the road, not on the internet.
5) there is very little beneficial content on C-D to attract specific rodeo discussion.
6) rodeo is no longer too popular, and considered very non-pc by many (who are more likely hanging out on internet forums.
7) rodeo subject matter is more rural than urban centric. Much of USA rural area is without internet, or it is very slow, expensive, / not for recreation.
8) active ranchers / cowboys might only have a few minutes / week to 'hang-out' on social media, and that will only be on helpful sites (to them)
9) current rodeo venues are not so interesting, attended, quality they were 50 yrs ago (when I was participating at Estes, Greeley, Loveland, Pine bluffs, Cheyenne, Cody, ....) Still it was only a side gig / hobby / interest, not a career. There were far more pressing things to do daily on a ranch.

PRCA seems far more popular in OK and Texas these days. We have 3 Texas neighbors running the circuit, as well as bucking stock provider next door. Not at all a popular rodeo town.

A generation before me, my mom was a professional performer at traveling horse shows. We never have been to "The Ranch", we both prefer the previous Larimer County Fairgrounds and spent many nights camping and sleeping in the horse barns there. (Was a great place for community Ice Skating during the 1960s, we skated with soldiers on leave from Vietnam... A few who didn't make it back home).

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by StealthRabbit

1) A relocation forum will have little presence of farmers / ranchers (people who stay put).
2) Rodeo is quite a narrow interest subject for a discussion forum.
3) knowledgeable, or even interested rodeo fans typically are not authors / keyboard jockeys
4) Current rodeo participants are on the road, not on the internet.
5) there is very little beneficial content on C-D to attract specific rodeo discussion.
6) rodeo is no longer too popular, and considered very non-pc by many (who are more likely hanging out on internet forums.
7) rodeo subject matter is more rural than urban centric. Much of USA rural area is without internet, or it is very slow, expensive, / not for recreation.
8) active ranchers / cowboys might only have a few minutes / week to 'hang-out' on social media, and that will only be on helpful sites (to them)
9) current rodeo venues are not so interesting, attended, quality they were 50 yrs ago (when I was participating at Estes, Greeley, Loveland, Pine bluffs, Cheyenne, Cody, ....) Still it was only a side gig / hobby / interest, not a career. There were far more pressing things to do daily on a ranch.

PRCA seems far more popular in OK and Texas these days. We have 3 Texas neighbors running the circuit, as well as bucking stock provider next door. Not at all a popular rodeo town.

A generation before me, my mom was a professional performer at traveling horse shows. We never have been to "The Ranch", we both prefer the previous Larimer County Fairgrounds and spent many nights camping and sleeping in the horse barns there. (Was a great place for community Ice Skating during the 1960s, we skated with soldiers on leave from Vietnam... A few who didn't make it back home).

Well, some of what you list here is very true, but some not so much.

PRCA rodeo is still extremely popular. This last July, we went to the packed Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in CO Springs. Note the word "packed", as in sold-out performance. A couple of weeks later, we drove to Dodge City, Kansas for their Roundup Rodeo and it was packed as well. It doesn't seem like rodeo has lost much-to-any interest. And, the NFR, at the Thomas-Mack Center in Vegas, was pretty packed at each performance.

PRCA rodeo isn't like the old days when contestants, who entered a rodeo, had to call in their "entry" into it. There are those that will take a laptop while traveling and enter a rodeo in their hotel/motel room.

As far as ranchers go, today they have software for feeding and breeding livestock. High school kids are taught about livestock, not only in the barn/field, but on a computer in the classroom.

So, whether it's PRCA rodeo or some other rodeo association, like for ranchers, there are those serious rodeo fans, like wife and I, that would love to live in an area that is popular with it and other Western stuff. When folks, like us, can't find that "popular" place, The Cowboy Channel sure plays a big part in our lives for tv watching/rodeo.

[BabyBoomers2]

StealthRabbit: In my thread here I'm asking/talking about the whereabouts of rodeo fans in northern Colorado, not any contestants. Serious rodeo fans do use a computer to check on things dealing with PRCA rodeo.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by LoveBoating

StealthRabbit: In my thread here I'm asking/talking about the whereabouts of rodeo fans in northern Colorado, not any contestants. Serious rodeo fans do use a computer to check on things dealing with PRCA rodeo.

OK, carry on, I have NEVER watched a rodeo on TV or media, and will likely never have the need, time or opportunity. Haven't had a TV since 1968, don't need one.

Good luck with finding a Rodeo fan base (But I would not expect a relocation public forum to provide that in <24 hrs) Maybe, maybe not. Just keep turning over the rocks, but there are more CERTAIN ways to locate your desired rodeo fan base, should you care to pursue that.

https://wranglernetwork.com/news/rod...inals-rodeo-3/
https://rodeobuddyco.com/rodeo-buddy-media/
https://www.nfrexperience.com/news/read/289 (Follow the Social Hub link)
https://wranglernetwork.com/news/las...-finals-rodeo/ (Stubhub agreement)

The Usual sites...(Twitter, Instagram, FB...)
https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosport...33e03b492.html

[NBeener]

Have you considered starting a thread about Northern Colorado rodeo fans who also have cuddy cabin boats ?

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by NBeener

Have you considered starting a thread about Northern Colorado rodeo fans who also have cuddy cabin boats ?

No, but there are many rodeo fans that do own a powerboat! Thanks for the suggestion though.

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by StealthRabbit

OK, carry on, I have NEVER watched a rodeo on TV or media, and will likely never have the need, time or opportunity. Haven't had a TV since 1968, don't need one.

Good luck with finding a Rodeo fan base (But I would not expect a relocation public forum to provide that in <24 hrs) Maybe, maybe not. Just keep turning over the rocks, but there are more CERTAIN ways to locate your desired rodeo fan base, should you care to pursue that.

https://wranglernetwork.com/news/rod...inals-rodeo-3/
https://rodeobuddyco.com/rodeo-buddy-media/
https://www.nfrexperience.com/news/read/289 (Follow the Social Hub link)
https://wranglernetwork.com/news/las...-finals-rodeo/ (Stubhub agreement)

The Usual sites...(Twitter, Instagram, FB...)
https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosport...33e03b492.html

Well, not having a tv might be fine/great for you, but most definitely not for us.

The sites you've listed above: rodeobuddy.com is for rodeo contestants, NOT fans, as (mostly) is the CFD one. The others only cover/covered the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, not rodeos during the regular season.

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by TCHP

While the PRCA Headquarters is in Cos, there are fewer rodeos, ranches, and farming in the region than northern CO or even further south in CO. Their location in Cos was a leveraged deal full of political maneuvering, hand shakes, and good old boys figuring it all out to get it here. Several years ago they were in negotiation with Pueblo to move their operation down south to better align with PBR because they felt Pueblo was better suited to host them and had a better line on intended demographics. Again, numerous meetings, deals and negotiating led to them staying in Cos.

Colo Spgs ranching past was pretty much gone by the start of WW1. It's western heritage was perpetuated by its numerous rich, eastern beneficiaries who fancied themselves cowboys for coming out west and making their fortunes off the land and then befriending and hanging out with famous cowboys friends they brought to the Springs for these expressed purposes. There is considerably more ranching and cowboy activity along the Arkansas River Valley and the San Luis Valley than there is anywhere near Colo Spgs.

Don't necessarily know if the PRCA Headquarters and the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame would totally agree with you on your post here, but..........

What I mean is, The Front Range hasn't gone totally "Los Angeles" yet. I see stores like, JAX Outdoors/Farm/Ranch and still some, but not a lot like years ago, crop land and cattle grazing. The Centennial Livestock Auction in Ft. Collins is still there and the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver still draws a lot of folks to it. So, no matter how many California and/or "big city" folks have moved to Colorado, parts of Colorado are still western/rodeo related.

[NBeener]

Anybody else appreciate the irony in a rodeo fan continuing to beat a dead horse ?