Happy rodeo season, Harris County!

Happy rodeo season, Harris County!

Happy rodeo season, Harris County! We’ve officially kicked off the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, which is our community’s biggest event of the year. There’s so much to celebrate at the rodeo this year, from the 50th anniversary of the Bar-B-Que Cookoff to the new Carnival ride, the Joker 360. (I had a chance to ride the Joker 360 with Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and Rodeo Chairman Pat Mann Phillips, pictured above).

In recognition of the special relationship between Harris County and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, I was so excited to kick off a new tradition for rodeo season, which is something we’re going to do every year starting this year. We just recently celebrated the first annual Harris County Hat Toss Day, where we ‘tossed the hat’ to leaders of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo to welcome them to Harris County’s NRG Park for the largest rodeo event in the world.

The rodeo and the County have always had such a strong partnership. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a co-tenant in the 1.9 million-square-foot NRG Stadium, the largest and most expensive rodeo and football facility ever built. The HLSR has been held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, since 2003.

All of us know that the rodeo is special, but it’s been such a fixture of living in our community that I think sometimes we forget just how special it is. I think we can all remember the first time we came to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and just being in awe of how impressive it is and how much it brings our community together.

Have a fun and safe rodeo season, Harris County!