Cowtown Strikes Back

April 25th, 2005

Even though the KC metro is up to 2 almost million people, many of them still have an inferiority complex about the city being a “cowtown.” While I generally don’t buy into that crap, I recently saw something that definitely gave me pause – a John Deere tractor pulling a big piece of farm machinery down US 169 Hwy.

This was just north of Downtown in the Briarcliff West area, one of the poshest of the city’s newest suburban areas and only 3-4 blocks from Mayor Kay’s new McMansion. It’s a snooty part of the city that aspires to be “the new Johnson County,” but inside the city limits.

The weird part is that I never saw this kinda thing back in my podunk hometown. Farmers never drive their tractors down I-70, yet this farmer was on one of the main highways to/from the downtown of Missouri’s largest city. It totally reminded me of Big & Rich’s “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy” video where they are parading across the bridge into the city.


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2 Responses to “Cowtown Strikes Back”

  1. Heidi says:
    5/2/2005 at 11:02 pm

    That so rocks!

    I wish we would lighten up and play with the cowtown image and have fun with it. But then I am still bitter about HNTB relegating the Hereford bull from its perch above 11th Street to across the highway (where it moons the FBI building).

  2. William says:
    5/16/2005 at 6:37 am

    I agree with Heidi. We should be proud of our Cowtown heritage and ‘embrace the cow’ in all of us. Although once, when telling someone where I was from I mentioned that I was from ‘cowtown’, the guy shrugged and said, “I thought that was Chicago”. Go figure.