Did you know?
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest rodeo and livestock show in the world.
Attendance averages nearly 2 million per year.
The event takes place over three weeks in Houston's Reliant Park and takes 19,000 volunteers to make it all happen.
Rodeo has existed as a professional sport for more than 100 years, the professional rodeo cowboy has only recently begun to emerge into genuine athlete status
Reliant Stadium, the home of RODEOHOUSTON, is the only stadium of its kind built specifically for rodeo and football.
Daily average attendance of the Rodeo of about 50,000 people,
1942 : First star entertainer: Gene Autry, "The Singing Cowboy"
