Leon Coffee: Houston rodeo clown retiring after historical career, blazes trail for other Blacks

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Iconic rodeo clown Leon Coffee has been a fixture with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for more than 30 years but he has decided to hang up his hat.

He's been a fixture with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for more than 30 years, but now Leon Coffee is retiring after a historic career.One of America's most beloved rodeo clowns has entertained us in Houston since the 1990s, but now the legend may not make us laugh at the livestock show, at least not in the rodeo ring, for much longer.

' The bulls don't care what color you are," says Retired Bull Rider Myrtis Dightman, who's known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo. FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!Dightman, who's the first Black bull rider to compete in the National Finals Rodeo, is featured in a new Ozarka Water commercial. The brave trailblazer says battling bulls was always "easy" for him.

 

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