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12 Clowns513-538.Indd BARRELMEN/ CLOWNS AND BULLFIGHTERS Keith Isley chocked up his fourth entertainment trifecta at the 2011 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, winning Clown of the Year, Coors Man in the Can (barrelman) and Specialty Act of the Year/ Comedy awards for the fourth time (2006, 2009-11); no one else has managed the feat even once. Photo by Eva Scofield 2011 Wrangler NFR Personnel Darrell Diefenbach – Bullfighter Darrell Diefenbach has put more on the line for the Wrangler NFR than many. He immigrated to the U.S. from Australia, where he rode bulls and broncs, fought bulls, read the ProRodeo Sports News and hankered to get his own PRCA member- ship. And he watched lots of NFR videos, telling himself after he got to America, “If I don’t make the Finals in five years, I’ll go home.” No worries, mate. Three years after coming to America, Diefenbach achieved his goal in 2001, and he’s been selected every year since then – 11 consecutive times. But due to the hazards of his chosen profession, he sat home in 2006 and 2008 with a broken neck and a broken leg, respectively … and that’s not all. “It broke my heart,” he said. “You go all year with that goal. To sit home is hard when you put as much into it as I do. “But when I’m there in the (Thomas & Mack) alley stretching, and I hear (announcer) Bob Tallman getting the crowd pumped up and cheering, just like on the old NFR tapes I used to watch, that gets my motor running. And when I step into the arena, nothing else matters except taking care of the guys. To be selected by your peers to protect them at the Finals, it’s an honor – it’s worth all the bumps and bruises and hookings and getting run over. If you love something enough, then you give everything you’ve got, and I love protecting bull riders. “Going to the NFR still means as much to me as it did the first time. If anything, it has more shine. I have the second-highest number of consecutive selections after Joe Baumgartner, who had 13, and I’m proud that I’ve been tough enough to do that, to get beaten up all season and stay dedicated enough to make the sacrifices I make to take care of the guys.” Diefenbach recently achieved a new goal: American citizenship. As a dual American-Australian citizen, he can visit family in Australia any time without visa worries. But more importantly, he knows he can stay here. “I had my interview, took an American history test, and I passed my English test – probably because they couldn’t understand me,” Diefenbach said of his accent. “I went to Portland (Ore.) for the swearing- in ceremony for about 40 of us, which was pretty cool. It is a relief to know I can stay here, after I’ve put so much into it. I have two places here; this is my home, and now I can finally call America my home.” Dusty Tuckness – Bullfighter They say the Wrangler NFR gets in your blood. After three consecutive years (2009-11) in the Thomas & Mack Center, Dusty Tuckness is thoroughly infected with NFR fever. “One of my goals since I was a kid has always been to go to the Finals, and another is to beat the records of other bullfighters who have gone there,” Tuck- ness said. “To go once is an achievement, but to go 11 times like Darrell Diefen- bach or 14 times like Joe Baumgartner (13 consecutive, 14 overall), that’s the ultimate goal. I want to push forward and get myself into their category.” But Tuckness is driven by more than competitive fire. “I try to be as consistent as I can, do my job day in and day out, and hope that will lead to a good outcome at the end of the year. Every year I get to go back, it means I’ve been consistent and the bull riders trust me and want to see me in the arena, so to keep going back is a real honor. “This year was a phenomenal Finals. Nearly every performance had some kind of action for us, at least one chance to take a hooking for the guys, and we had to work as a team and get aggressive every time. For me, that’s a fun day at the office. And when the top 15 bull riders in the world thanked each of us individually and gave us a bonus, they were saying we meant a lot to them, that we did our jobs and they wanted to take care of us. That’s very humbling.” 514 BULLFIGHTERS, CLOWNS AND BARRELMEN 2011 Wrangler NFR Personnel Kenny Bergeron – Bullfighter In 2010, Kenny Bergeron really felt the pressure of his first Wrangler NFR. “I felt like there was no room for error,” Bergeron said shortly afterward. “I had to be in the right spot, make the right move, take the hook at the right time. It’s the most difficult bullfighting I’ve ever done because all the guys are so good. Even when they get in trouble, they can still stay on the bulls, so you can’t run in too soon, but you have to be in the right place when they need you.” Bergeron found his second NFR a more relaxed experience. “I knew what to expect, what it was going to be like to do 10 rounds of the (2011) Finals,” he said. “It’s 10 days of adrenaline. You’d think 10 days of anything would get old, but not the NFR! It was so fun that I was disappointed when it ended, even though I got to go skiing with (2011 World Champion Bareback Rider) Kaycee Feild afterward.” Being from Louisiana, Bergeron adds almost an extra syllable to the word ‘skiing,’ so just how good a skier is he? “Well, I’m a pretty decent skier considering I’m from south Louisiana,” he said. “OK, Kaycee was making me look pretty bad – but we were only a half hour from his house. And yeah, I was a little stiff after the NFR, but since I never get to go skiing, I sucked it up for a couple of days. But then the plane ride home nearly killed me.” Bull rider protection at the 2011 NFR definitely seemed a bit more challenging than usual, at least to the viewer, but Bergeron said the camaraderie he feels with the other two bullfighters has made them a cohesive unit even when facing the most ornery bulls. “To get to the NFR is a great honor, and to do it with Darrell and Dusty is even better – they are great bullfighters and even better people. We all have the same absolute goals – to keep the bull riders safe, then to keep each other safe. So usually at least one of us gets wiped out ULLFIGHTERS each night. There were only three rounds this year (in 2011) where no one took a hooking. We’re just focused on keeping those guys safe. B “But we cut up and have a lot of fun, too. Everybody hangs out in the bullfighters’ locker room – we make George Carlin sound like Sunday Bible school. But we’re fans of rodeo, and especially of those bull riders. AND And they’re our friends – those 15 guys and the other 500 who put their hands in a bull rope every weekend. My goal will always be to make it to the NFR, but only because I want to do the best I can for every one of those guys.” LOWNS CrAsh Cooper – Barrelman /C CrAsh Cooper always dreamed of representing Canada, his home country, on an international stage. He just thought that stage would be a little colder – perhaps 28 degrees, like an ice rink. In the late 1990s, Cooper was playing minor league hockey in Canada and the U.S. when a car wreck changed his career path. “I was on my way to a rodeo to fight bulls,” Cooper said, “but I broke my foot in the accident and couldn’t skate at that level any more. But I could still play rugby and fight bulls, and eventually I took on the challenge of clowning. I’ve seen the NFR on ARRELMEN TV all my life, and I’ve been going to (the PRCA’s pre-NFR) Convention for years and B shown my artwork at the Cowboy Christmas show, so I’ve attended the NFR as a fan. But being the first guy from Canada to work the barrel there, I felt like I had the weight of the nation on my shoulders. It’s been my mission since I was a little kid to represent my country at something. I just didn’t think it would be as a clown! “People told me to view it as any other rodeo, but it truly isn’t. The coolest moment for me was the day before it started. I walked down the tunnel into the arena and just stood there; there wasn’t another soul around. That one moment of stillness was a great help in preparing for the next 10 days of chaos. It’s a good kind of chaos, but the schedule is crazy and there’s a lot happening all the time, plus I had my artwork booth and about 20 friends and family members who came down from Canada. I just wanted to put everything into slow motion to make it last longer.” Cooper said it wasn’t the technical demands of the NFR that were especially challenging.
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