As all of you volunteers know, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo management and staff have been busy since before the 1993 Show preparing for the upcoming 1994 event. Of course, after the 1993 Show, we realized we had a major challenge ahead of us for 1994 because your work as committee volunteers and the support
of the general public helped us break all records.
The response has been overwhelmingly positive to one of the most comprehensive changes ever made in the Houston Livestock Show’s junior show auctions — the guaranteed premium program. In fact, auction exhibitors and auction buyers both will benefit when the program takes effect during the 1994 Show.
When the Show’s l o n g - t i m e announcer Bob Tallman is doing what he wants during a rodeo performance, not one of the 50,000-plus people in the audience believes, “...they’re going to be taxed, hassled or read a bad headline.”
There may be some similarities between tackling an NFL running back and a cowboy wrestling a steer at the Houston Rodeo, but the playing field isn’t one of them. So every year after the Oilers’ football season, the Astroturf comes up, and the dirt goes down. It is just one step in the transformation of the Houston Astrodome into the site
of the world’s richest regular-season rodeo.
Bolting from the mall, a shoplifter clears the parking lot figuring he “has it made,” only to encounter a member of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Posse board 1,200 pounds of horseflesh. And in the vernacular of the criminal world, the “jig is up.”
Few people are still around who remember seeing the entertainers of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in the early years. To many people, legendary names
like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Eddy Arnold are just that — names of legends of country and western music.
No one can argue that the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is one of our country’s greatest success stories. Its unparalleled achievements largely depend on the thousands of enthusiastic experts in as many professions that are brought in either on a volunteer basis or as part of the Show’s permanent staff.
The action witnessed in professional rodeo is nothing less than exhilarating. Ferocious bulls, wild horses, invincible cowboys and racing cowgirls make for an exciting show.
Letters and comments should be sent to:
Marketing and Public Relations Division,
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™
P.O. Box 20070
Houston, Texas 77225-0070
