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Originally Posted by Wormius
Noticed “The Religion of Sport” showed up. One of the episodes in the series is all about the Calgary Stampede. Looks like it was from 2016. Pretty interesting. Didn’t know that Calgary was considered so highly, like the “Mt. Everest” of rodeos. I guess I don’t know why I would expect it wouldn’t be so highly thought of, but living here I guess I would hear about others very much. So I thought there might be bigger ones down south in the states.
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There's a lot of negativity for the Stampede here in Calgary for some reason, that's probably why. There's a whole contingent of locals who try to pretend that it's a silly nothing festival that no one outside Calgary has ever heard of, and they're always very vocal about it.