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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
So I'm watching this calf-roping on the TV and they don't actually show the rope go around the calf's neck, or the consequent "stopping" that goes on.
You see the cowboy and the horse and all the rope swinging and riding fast and whatnot, but the cow itself is always out of the frame until the guy is tying it up.
One guy did get penalized for jerking the cow off its feet, so that rough part of it is apparently out of it now.
Anyone know why this is? Why do they leave the "calf roping" out of the calf roping coverage?
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For obvious reasons. They want to minimize the exposure of what is actually happening to the calf. Tie down roping is the current lightning rod for animal cruelty activists. Why do you think they changed the name from Calf Roping?
Another event called steer roping, which I have never seen at a canadian rodeo, used to be filmed in a similar way. Now, they won't even show it on TV at all that I'm aware of. In fact some rodeos like the Cheyene Frontier Days have the Steer roping at another location away from the main arena. Similar situation with steer roping at the National Finals Rodeo. It hasn't been a part of that for decades. The finals for steer roping are held somewhere else. Used to be the Lazy E Arena in Oklahoma.
Please don't confuse steer roping with team roping. They are two completely separate events.