“Every year there’s been a Super Bowl in the winter for football, there’s been a NTPC in the summertime for pulling, and hooking there and winning there are the ways a great many of our competitors measure the arc of their careers. “For any pulling fan, from casual to passionate, the name ‘Bowling Green’ is synonymous with the sport,” began Gregg Randall, NTPA General Manager. As a result, 2020 will be the first year since 1967 that the tracks at the corner of Poe and Haskins will be silent on the third weekend of August. Originally planned for Thursday through Saturday, August 20-22, the NTPC’s 54th edition will be delayed until August 19-21, 2021. Mike Erford, NWOTPA President, cited “the underlying threat to our youth groups and senior volunteers our community” and reported to the “pullers, fans, and sponsors” that there could be “found no way to safely bring you all together.”

The decision comes after several briefings with Wood County officials on the challenges of staging the motorsport’s greatest spectacle, one that welcomes participants and spectators from across the nation and around the world into its campgrounds, pits, and grandstands. The Northwestern Ohio Tractor Pullers Association (NWOTPA), the promotional group of the National Tractor Pulling Championships (NTPC) in Bowling Green, Ohio, has elected to cancel the 2020 edition of the NTPA Super National pull. From NORTHWESTERN OHIO TRACTOR PULLERS ASSOCIATION

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