Talk:History of rodeo

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I've just removed the "A love that is never-ending" section. It read as follows:

Rodeo is big business. While rodeo no longer outweighs auto racing, baseball and football in spectator numbers, it is a multi-million dollar industry with thousands of competitors, rodeo queens and countless fans. Behind the scenes you will find passion, determination, love, blood, sweat and tears. Rodeo is still a way of life for many families, as is farming and ranching. While the percent of the population involved in the rodeo business is less than 1%, most of the entire population has come in contact with a rodeo event at one point in their lives and find it just as thrilling as they did long ago.

I'm sure it's appropriate for a page on the history of rodeo to sound pro-rodeo, but this is awfully gushing--and the article itself mentions ongoing controversy about the rodeo, which means this concluding section makes the article sound dismissive of the animal cruelty charges. Besides, the section has some claims that could use substantiation--how many fans? how many people have had contact with the rodeo? and how many of those found it so thrilling? how much money is there in the rodeo business?--64.180.163.229 09:47, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To merge or not to merge

I think that it would be better to merge the history section of the rodeo article into this article, not vice versa. Montanabw 02:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)