• Texas is known for bragging about its size, whether it's big hair or an event. From its rodeos to its state fair to its football games, Texas does everything it can in style and does so in big fashion.
  
  

Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo

• The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is held each January and February. A parade kicking off the three-week event is held annually in downtown Fort Worth. The nation's oldest rodeo, stock show and parade began in 1896 and is held at the Will Rogers Colisuem. The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is one of the largest in Texas, attracting nearly 1 million people annually, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture. It includes carnival rides, games, exhibits and fair food as well as a petting zoo, broncriding, bullriding, calf roping and steer wrestling. Other events include barrel racing,chuck wagon races and a wild calf scramble.
  Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
  3400 Burnett-Tandy Drive
  Fort Worth, TX 76107
  817-877-2400
  www.fwssr.com
  
  

Oktoberfest

• Fredericksburg has a rich German heritage and celebrates it each year during Oktoberfest at Marketplatz. The event is held in October and includes continuous "oompah music," arts and crafts, a children's fun area, German Bier Tent and Oktoberfest Vineyard area. There also is additional food and drink.
  Oktoberfest
  Market Square, 100 block of West Main Street
  Fredericksburg, TX 78624
  830-997-4810
  oktoberfestinfbg.com
  
  

OU-Texas

• If you love college football, you're familiar with the Red River Rivalry, also known as the Red River Shootout. Each October, Oklahoma University and The University of Texas take to the field to determine bragging rights -- and some years, which will play for a Big 12 and even the BCS national title. The game is scheduled to be held through 2015 at the Cotton Bowl, which is at Fair Park in Dallas. The rivalry is almost as big as the state of Texas.
  The Cotton Bowl
  1121 First Ave.
  Dallas, TX 75210
  214-426-3400
  www.fairpark.org
  
  

The State Fair of Texas

• Fair Park, located in Dallas, is on 277 acres and is a National Historic Landmark. The host of the 1936 World's Fair, the park is the only intact and unaltered pre-1950s world fair site remaining in the country, according to fairpark's website. And once a year since 1952, Big Texas has called Fair Park home. He's the big ol' cowboy who greets folks as they come through the gates. The fair is the birthplace of Fletcher's Corny Dog and calls itself the Fried Food Capital of the World. Of course, you can only call it that if you enjoy fried cheesecake, candy bars and Coca-Cola.
  Friends of Fair Park
  1121 First Ave.
  Dallas, TX75210
  214-426-3400
  www.fairpark.org