Unbelievable Already cancelled for 2021. What's better is Dickies sent out bills to premium ticket holders about 2 weeks ago asking for payment, sounds shady to me.
EwingBarnes said:
Unbelievable Already cancelled for 2021. What's better is Dickies sent out bills to premium ticket holders about 2 weeks ago asking for payment, sounds shady to me.
Pretty much all of them. All steers had to be in your barn by June to be validated and eligible to show in the spring majors. Goats and Sheep, later validation but generally speaking you needed to have those in your barn 30-60 days ago. Hogs, maybe a few purchases avoided but people have been out shopping and buying for 4-6 weeks now.MGS said:
I wonder how many kids have already purchased and have been raising livestock for the show. It's a big FU to them and all of the hard work they've done.
Galt said:Pretty much all of them. All steers had to be in your barn by June to be validated and eligible to show in the spring majors. Goats and Sheep, later validation but generally speaking you needed to have those in your barn 30-60 days ago. Hogs, maybe a few purchases avoided but people have been out shopping and buying for 4-6 weeks now.MGS said:
I wonder how many kids have already purchased and have been raising livestock for the show. It's a big FU to them and all of the hard work they've done.
28k exhibitors total (according to their website). I'd say at least 25k of them already have their animals.
My daughter, a senior, has had her Fort Worth calf in the barn since April.
This one stings, badly.
It's incredible. It's factually a non-event for the vast majority of people but we just continue cancelling stuff. And why would Ft. Worth commit suicide like this? I'm assuming this is the largest money maker as a city every year?SoupNazi2001 said:
You would think as evidence continues to mount that the virus isn't as deadly or dangerous as people initially thought that people would stop doing the same things that were done last Spring but here we are.
I would hazard a guess that this is more of a combination of liability and not spending money with too much uncertainty on how the government will be handling COVID in a few months and almost nothing to do with fear.EwingBarnes said:
No doubt I'll be asking for a refund. No matter which side you fall on the fence with China virus continuing to live scared is a terrible way to go thru life. Guess just fold up everything and sit at home I suppose.
Proposition Joe said:EwingBarnes said:
Unbelievable Already cancelled for 2021. What's better is Dickies sent out bills to premium ticket holders about 2 weeks ago asking for payment, sounds shady to me.
They said they will update premium seat holders by next Friday. Going to give them the benefit of the doubt that the payments due was simply a case of one department not knowing what the other department was doing and they'll refund for the year or offer significant compensation for rolling funds over.
Proposition Joe said:
National Finals Rodeo is just a rodeo in a large venue with plenty of space to spread out at reduced capacity. It's akin to any of the sporting events currently going on.
FWSSR is a whole different... animal. They likely could have done just the rodeo portion of it at reduced capacity, but obviously the numbers didn't make sense.
I'm disappointed like a lot of you, but the decision-makers for the rodeo aren't your fear-mongering types when it comes to this virus -- if it was realistic to go on with it they would have.
I agree. My two oldest boys have been showing their heifers nearly every weekend all over North Texas, Southern Oklahoma and even as far as Texarkana since the middle of the summer. If all of these places can figure it out, there is no reason outside of political pressure that FW can't do this. This wreaks of political BS that they don't want to deal with.gigem70 said:
How is it that the State Fair figured out a way to have a junior steer show and sale a couple of weeks ago?