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'Wild West' on display at Texas rodeo
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Cowboys, cowgirls strap on boots to compete at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
- Duration 3:40
- Date Mar 19, 2012
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-- Cowboy tradition going back to the -- This is soon -- acquired businesses include their kids who listen to them and that's why some people since become a division.
It's just the most fun thing to do and -- of this.
More than a million people come.
Entering its.
It's -- way of life.
I -- -- about eight years old.
And you when you -- -- professional and how we get out really easily and we let them collapse.
Give everything that we didn't get brilliant man or woman -- -- especially when it comes to bull and -- back right.
They're that bad news is a different style brawl that he basically just hang on -- Our hands with his caddie in the danger in this borders being able to put yourself.
On this wild animal and try to writing for eight seconds consistency perform well with the -- death defying these days.
We're competing against animals are on -- that outweigh -- night wore these forces are massive huge day they're bred to do what they do.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- It is supportive of what they do the rodeo we help -- as an invitational.
We're inviting upon forty.
And throughout the world.
There in the big payday for those athletes.
Aren't afraid to -- big story.
We're putting up two million dollars working person prize money to make that happen.
Part of the sport it is that you cavaliers up you know we're out here perform a lot of guys -- -- that they can Paper bills that to keep going down -- -- but this is more than just escorted.
-- -- -- -- -- -- Here -- that might -- Be more than 30000.
Animals -- answer to be their offices or giant.
We're -- now the world's largest I've gone through.
And eventually we'll moment when this happened right here in the middle of the machines were courses are.
Music is another -- part of the rodeo experience.
Entertainers like Reba McEntire Justin Bieber MVP top light at this stage.
It takes a lot of help to put on the back of production.
26000.
They -- the event raising big money.
For charity.
The Houston livestock show and rodeo is -- over 283.
Million dollars.
For the kids of taxes those included in the purchase -- the person you're 1932.
Were able to give back out of money because -- have to play all the people who do the job.
For the volunteers the cowboys and everyone involved it all comes back to tradition.
The mystique of account -- I mean it's just something that.
Every kid in the world grew -- -- in public commitments -- an hour.
Didn't run horse the very little girl was a little pony -- that Campbell.
And that's the heritage of the United States on -- who grew up their sport.
Here it just happens.
Yeah yeah.
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