Everything changed in Dubuque, Iowa one evening when the clown for the rodeo no-showed. The stock contractor told Harrison to throw on some makeup and get in the barrel. “I had an announcer ...

But despite the makeup and the silly costume, being a rodeo clown is no funny business. "I'm the barrel man. I'm an island in a sea of sharks," said Coffee. "I've got to be out-of-the-way and ...