City Of Fort Worth: Texas Rattlers Bull Riding Team To Make Its Home At Dickies Arena

Dallas TX

07 January, 2022

4:57 PM

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Press release from City of Fort Worth: January 07, 2022 The Ariat Texas Rattlers will represent Dallas-Fort Worth in the PBR Team Series, an elite new league featuring the world's top bull riders competing in games beginning in June 2022. Based in Fort Worth, the Ariat Texas Rattlers will call Dickies Arena home. "We are thrilled to bring a professional bull riding team to Fort Worth, Texas, 'Where the West Begins'. We are committed to doing everything we can to give the people of Fort Worth an experience that's worthy of the toughest cowboys who have called Fort Worth home," said Mark George, general manager of the Ariat Texas Rattlers. The PBR Team Series' inaugural 10-event regular season will culminate in a team playoff at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nov. 4-6. The league will launch with eight founding teams, each scheduled to host in their respective city an annual bull riding event and western lifestyle festival, building excitement and rooting interests in the sport. The PBR Team Series event for the Ariat Texas Rattlers at Dickies Arena will be announced at a later date. The PBR Team Series complements the successful PBR Unleash The Beast premier tour, which held its first championship in 1994 and will now compete in a condensed January-May schedule, with its World Finals held in May in Fort Worth May 13-22 at Dickies Arena. The move of its elite series' championship weekend to Fort Worth is PBR's latest expansion in the heart of Cowboy Country. In June 2021, PBR announced a groundbreaking joint venture with Stockyard Heritage Development Co. and ASM Global in which PBR will help program Cowtown Coliseum and bring dozens of annual western sports and lifestyle events to this iconic venue and the historic Stockyards District. The region has played host to many historic PBR moments to date. Among those moments, Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth held the first PBR Unleash The Beast event in 1993, while in 2018, AT&T Stadium in Arlington was the site of the highest-attended, single-day event in PBR history, hosting more than 46,000 fans. Additionally, the prestigious, team-formatted, international PBR Global Cup has twice been held at AT&T Stadium, including the event's debut on American soil in 2019, and in 2020, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys held the PBR World Finals after the event was relocated from Las Vegas due to coronavirus restrictions.     Get articles like this in your inbox. Subscribe to City News.   This press release was produced by City of Fort Worth. The views expressed here are the author's own.