About Us

GREETING FROM THE CHAIRMAN

DON HUMPHRESS

If you are on this web page then I guess you would be interested in who is the NSRA. We are mostly a bunch of southern gentleman who get together and have shows. Promoting friendships to be made thought the showing the America Show Roller. We encourage anyone who wants to belong to our club to join wherever you may reside. Our aim or goal is to have a little fun with our show rollers. Our membership is growing and we do have members all over. I think I heard Jim Meeks say the other day that we are about fifty-fifty on members from the south and the north.

I can hear you asking, if you're a southern club why do you call yourself the National Show Roller Club? It's simply because it was founded to go National in the founder's day of Ed Emerson. Ed has long since left the show roller hobby and moved on to racing pigeons. The club struggled to exist for a number of years after his departure. Tireless efforts of Sam Wesley (who incidentally sales tires for a living) and Raymond Craft (They both live in the South) we now have what we have in this club. These two are the patriarchs of the club and we hold them in high regard so don't say anything bad about them around me but only positive remarks are accepted.

Several of us in office go pretty far back in the hobby. Some of us were around when you flew your birds for performance and took them out of the kit to show them. The show roller hobby was must bigger then than it is today. Lots of guys just got old and flew away. Other people just performance rollers only. We do have some members that do both. We are seeing guys who where young back then in the seventies are coming back into the hobby. We are welcoming some new people into the hobby also and I will go on record and say if you're a newcomer we will help you get some good birds. Maybe even some free ones if you are serious about becoming a member and showing with us. So that is who we are, just a bunch of guys who like to have fun with our pigeon buddies and showing show rollers against one another. I would be willing to say we are really not that much different than yourself.

The NSRA stands for something, I just can't think of anything right now. I know we stand for honesty and fairness in the showing of our birds. We stand for equal entry fees for both the young and old, rich or poor. We purpose to get along with one another no matter how much we dislike each others at times. We purpose to not fight all the time and we have the Olson rule, which is you can only stay mad for a certain length of time and then you have to get over it. I think it is only two years you can stay mad.

We stand to have a wonderful fun show in the south each year. We really want to build the south up because if we don't nobody else will come to our rescue. Ft. Payne, Ala has been the place for the NSRA all-age show in recent years. It is also an all breed show. There were about 800 total pigeons of several different breeds there last year including our baldhead and regular show rollers. We will also have our annual club meeting there or at the Classic each year. We will have auction birds. That is one thing we stand for which is getting some good birds in people's hands without it costing them an arm and a leg. Helping others get in on the fun competing aspect of raising show rollers.

We stand and support the NSRA CLASSIC each year, It just happens to be the one show that I enjoy the most each year. It's the only show that tries to level the playing fields at a show by only letting each breeder show a max of ten birds. No paper entry but good food and drink and nice awards.

Classic cups we call them and the first three have money in them. Which goes to three different breeders. The color classes have a ten dollars bill in each of them and you can win as many as your birds will let you take home. I think the Classic is the one unique show that makes us stand out in the hobby and it is open to everyone, member or not, just pay your entry and bring your birds the last weekend in January each year.

Recently, the Classic has been held in my hometown of Campbellsville, Ky. It's in the heart of Kentucky and is a small town. We do have a super Wal-Mart and a Burger King. Which reminds me; we stand for and support the NYBS in Louisville each year. We voted to co-sponsor the show with the original host MSRC this year at our annual meeting. We realize the important of being a part of major show in hobby of pigeon breeders. You will see more fanciers at the NYBS each year than the total rest of the show season. It is a reunion of sorts each year for some of us in the pigeon hobby.

I would also like to think that we stand for the showing of all colors of birds. Some members in the club are putting their own money on some color birds to help promote the raising and showing of these birds. I personally would like to see us with more better different color birds than them common looking blue check self's you see everywhere in the wild as a top color. I say raise more torte shell's or reds or yellow or browns. Move away from the blue check self and keep on smiling as you go along.

We stand for enjoying the time and money it take to keep pigeons nowadays. What I really mean is just enjoy the raising of our show rollers and the different personalities of each bird. We have a playful bird that other fancier's have no idea how much fun our show rollers are to handle. We get to enjoy in them year round and we can take them for granted. Have fun with them at home and let the showing of them be the icing on the cake.

I hope this greeting is enough to give you a feeling of what the club and chairman is all about in NSRA. Southern Hospitability that is found mostly in the south. We baby our newcomers and make the adults take the responsibilities of everything else. Give us a try if you are looking for a show roller club. Remember the NSRA is there for you in the raising and showing of the Show Roller if you decide to give them a try. You never know, you just might enjoy show rollers and the guys and gals that raise them. I encourage you to hop on board and give show rollers a go.