The owner of the rodeo had specifically told the cowboy that he would be fired for thinking about the past on company time, even if it was about his father's death at that same rodeo a few weeks before.
"There are no laws prohibiting it and the permitting is pretty much the same as for a rodeo," said Dickens.
"I don't know if today's rodeo is the same as it was 10 years ago," said Leslie King, a spokeswoman for the association.
When Brian comes to Meg's room to apologize for what he did to her, he finds him just as Peter enters, who only knows what is happening when reading TV Guide, which details the plot of the episode, and is the same reason he entered the rodeo.
Many riders travel around the States and Australia competing in Rodeo Competitions all seeking the same thing, the High Point Award for there chosen field of Rodeo Riding.
Although both surfaced around the same time — the West of the Pecos, the first rodeo ever, was founded in 1883, and the first football game in Texas, involving the University of Texas, was played in 1893 — rodeo seems the purer manifestation of Texans' inherently rugged spirit.
On July 4, he drove more than eight hours from a rodeo in Montana to Calgary to compete on the same day.
Asked the same question, Burke answered via e-mail, "No, this isn't my first rodeo — I've been through slumps before".
Hey, Pat Riley basically did the same thing to him, so at least this isn't Stan's first rodeo.
Unfortunately, the stylistic shift away from psychedelia towards country rock that Sweetheart of the Rodeo represented served to alienate much of the Byrds' counterculture following, while at the same time, eliciting hostility from the ultra-conservative Nashville country music establishment.
