Just Clowning Around with Leon Coffee

It's the official start of Cheyenne Frontier Days. People have been flocking to Cheyenne, Wyo., for "America's Largest Outdoor Rodeo" — known as the "Daddy of 'Em All" — since 1897. One of its main attractions? Entertainment from rodeo clowns like the legendary Leon Coffee. This 57-year-old has been traveling the world for decades, entertaining cowboys and cowgirls young and old. While he may look like just an average rodeo clown in the ring, Coffee puts his life on the line protecting bullfighters as the Barrelman. Though it's a dangerous job, he says he wouldn't have it any other way.

-- Video by Elizabeth Saab and Rob Sevilla

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