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It's amazing how fast the years go. I remember in 1997
I went to the National High School Finals Rodeo and met Ross Coleman.
Since then we became good friends even though every weekend he was one of the
toughest competitors
I'd ever seen. It's gonna be pretty fun to go to Ross Coleman's ranch
and catch up with him.
We're here today with Ross Coleman. You know I think a lot of people know him as
on the toughest men the PBR and I feel honored to kinda
know a little bit more and and know him as
one of the toughest men in the world that I know and not just bull riding,
that's a title a man's gotta earn, so you can't just say I'm tough.
So it's an honor to be at your place today and kinda look around
and see are how you and your family are doing today.
Well I appreciate that. But you know, what I when I was going down the road
as a young, you know, teenager
to the first kinda rookie being on a
on tour in the PBR, I was always around Ty
and Tough and Razor and Gaffney and Seamus
and all these are the guys that I looked up to so much and
there were none of them guys ever whining or complaining about their injuries or
their
if they ever get whipped down or smoked down they were the first guys to stand up on
their feet and
take it like a man and I just looked at them so much that I want to be like them
and
and I used to get in the weight room and try to train a little bit and
try to stay in pretty good shape and be physically
strong enough to go and take some of that beaten' you're gonna take riding bulls.
You are pretty much a pioneer,
I mean, guys like you and J.W. definitely
set the bar. When kids grow up, they want to be like Ross Coleman.
I mean you did set the standard for a lot of people.
J.W. is pound-for-pound very tough,
scrappy, cowboy tough too.
I don't think J.W. was in that weight room very much training but I
guarantee he was doing something ranchy
and tough enough out on the prairie or wherever he was.
Um he's he's ninety or nothin' I guarantee that much.
And watching him ride and being around him and being one of his best friends,
on tour when he was on tour and I was on tour was
it was great because you're only as good as you company so if you go rub
elbows with J.W.
and Justin and Tater and some other
cowboys that are Ty and Tough and
Cody Lambert and guys like that, if you're rubbing elbows and you're hanging around
them, you're only as good as your company.
It kinda rubs off on you no matter what. So I think growing up
on a ranch was probably the best thing that
I could ever done because you know what my dad was not
afraid to put you to work I promise and it
seemed like were always working hard out there.
if we have got a chance to run in some yearlings or run in some calves
or roping steers or whatever
we were like it was play day for us, you know what I mean, so usually we were out there
working cattle.
And I do remember when I was young, I didn't like working cattle very much and
I didn't like
moving irrigation pipe but I promise you
it was something that made me realize that a
I had worked hard as a young man and and growing up through
high school or through junior rodeo through through high school also,
we were always busy, always busy. It seemed like if
we were inside, we can be inside watching TV or something,
and we'd see my dad walking up from the barn, every one of us -
me, my little brother, and or my three older sisters - we'd be
we'd jump up out of our chair and and look like we need to go find something to do or
we'd act like we're busy doing something
because we know my dad would come in there and he wouldn't put up with us
watching no TV or
sitting around. We had something to do
whether on the tractor, whether you're out there cutting thistles,
or you're out there moving irrigation pipe or
working cattle, my dad is a very busy man and he's a
hard worker so he always had us a job to do
and and that was something. My hat's off to him
to raise me to go ahead and work hard all my life because when it came down to
to riding at the PBR level or making my own money in
Pro Rodeo or even the PBR level
it was it was nice. It was so nice things like
it wasn't easy, don't get me wrong, but it was
sweet to go ahead and just go work on the weekend and go win some money.
But when you're home all week long, it don't matter how much money you win, if you're
at the ranch you're gonna get your butt worked, I guarantee you that much.
He was a high school champion, he was a college
champion. His family's really rodeo oriented and he kinda went
black sheep for a little while
turning towards the bull riding world, PBR,
and and but I think it was the best for him.
I think he knew that that was the toughest route and and that's
always been Ross. I mean he, if there was a bronc standin in the pen needed
bustin' before they went branding, why
he is the one to do it and if there's a big calf being drug to the fire
he's the one you know will go try and take him down so everybody can get
a brand on him and if there was
a fist fight to be had, he was the one ready for it. You know and that's what that's
I liked about him was
he had your back no matter how big the calf was or how big the guy was,
he was just a
big tough kid and he's grown into
a good man and a husband and a
dad and I think this that may be what I'm more proud of him than anything is
that he's a good daddy.
Ladies and gentlemen,
PBR superstar J B Mooney
What's your bull's name?
Hot Tamale. That's a that's a hot one now.
Nice Hot Tamale
You'd better hang on.
Where's your big brother at?
He'll ride with two hands down sometimes.
That's alright, I'm a little brother too.
Ride good out there man!
Hot Tamale and J B Mooney Stay on top
Ready? Yeah, this ain't your first rodeo is it?
Are you doing truck and trailer there?
Yeah, go ahead! Keep ridin'!
Keep ridin'!
Yeah!
My wife's Amy Coleman and we've got Cooper and Cuise and Crease
and I tell you what, it's a lot of fun, it's she's a hard worker
I promise you and cuz she's not only raising three boys, she's raising four
boys cuz I'm right there
right in the middle of it but it's been good.
My oldest boy Cooper, he's five.
Cooper Tieg Colemen, named after Tom Tieg, his middle name
and we get Cruise Lee Coleman and then got Crease
McRae Coleman, so we've got 5, 3 and six months and we're
full throttle around here
I promise you. It's a lot of fun.
Ready?
Let's go. Ready?
We're riding Slick Willy.
Slick Willy. Squeeze your legs. Ride good now.
Hot dog - good ride!
Cooper used to hang out with us quite a bit back in locker room and stuff and
that
that means everything to him, no matter what age he was, whether he's barely
barely walking or how old he is now, he loves everything about all bull riders,
all the older bull riders. J.W. Hart's his godfather.
Jus McBride's his best friend it seems like.
All they talk about is Luke Snyder. They laugh and giggle about Luke Snyder.
Cruz, every time Cruz talks about anybody when we're playing buckin' bulls or
whatever, he's always JB Mooney.
So they're fans of the PBR and they're fans of all the riders and
but they're their buddies too so that's a great experience to have that
going on. Whatever they want to do I'm gonna go ahead and support them
no matter what.
I know Cooper enjoys playing baseball right now and
you know he's only five years old now so whenever they want to do in the future
no matter if it's driving race cars or
riding bulls or playing sports
whatever they want to do, there might be some totally different from that too,
you never know
but we'll support them 110 percent for sure. That's the way I was raised
and that's the way I'll raise these boys for sure.
Good try cowboy. Let's get in a lope maybe a little bit.
Trail that thing a little bit before you go swinging at it, okay?
Get your horse working up there where you want it.
Yeah, you go it!
That was a good job!
Well now we're here in Texas.
We've got a couple horses, a couple too many horses out here
and we've got a couple roping steers that we're going to try and rope a little bit today
but I just got a couple beef cattle too but nothing too serious
yet but maybe in the future we'll get into it a little bit more.
With the cattle business
but now I'm trying to be a roper. I know every bull rider that's
retired out there probably wants to be a roper and compete somehow or another.
I'm a number 5 heeler and
I'm going to go try and stick it on a couple today.
I got a couple lessons coming this weekend actually too because I'm going to a
big competition coming up in Reno
pretty soon so I'm gonna get after it.
I've been roping lot and it's been nice to be here in Texas
and getting to rope a lot with my father-in-law Perry Lee
and which he's taught me a lot great. He's a great horse trainer and
my brother-in-law too, Mark, we rope a lot and enjoy that
so we're going to go ahead and try to stick it on a couple today.
See if we can't embarrass ourselves on TV.
Good job. That was fun.
I almost stumbled on the last one but other than that it was a flawless victory.
That was fun now wasn't it?
Where'd you win the pistol? I won the pistol on the Columbia River circuit
in '98 I went all around up there in the circuit.
This buckle here was another pro rodeo buckle,
top hand series or whatever, for Copenhagen/Skol back in the day.
Did you get stepped on? It looks bent. At PBR in
Greensboro, North Carolina, a long time ago
or maybe it was even Charlotte, one of HD's bulls
did go ahead and put the stompin' on me
pretty handily. Broke my leg and
stomped me right in the buckle and broke the buckle up a little bit. But I was lucky.
The Calgary. This a neat little deal my wife put together for me for Christmas one time.
A $100,000 check.
Yes sir that was a good day.
This one's for raising bucking bulls. I didn't know you raised bucking bulls.
Yeah I did not raise that one but that was Tom Tieg raised Bones
and he won bucking bull of the year
in '08 with Bones
and my oldest boy Cooper is named after Tom
Cooper Tieg Coleman and them of course Tom
had to give him that local one day. I don't know where we were or what we're doing but
he wouldn't take no for an answer. We were like "No sir Tom
we're not taking that world champion bucking bull
buckle from you. But that's
Cooper Tieg's buckle there. He gets to wear that when we go to Vegas to the big shows.
What's that big buckle there? The big buckle's the richest ride in history at the time
back in '01 was a $100,000 Mossy Oak shootout ride.
That was a pretty special ride. Which bull was that again? Tough Enough.
So that's J.W., Justin, Razor, Ty, me and
Michael Gaffney. That was in locker room we're having fun.
That looks like a good day right there.
That was a pretty good day there. I was giving him a little business that day.
I forget what bull that was that day, one of HD's bulls,
back in the day but
Cooper's getting on TV, cowboy.
What's that say? Oh man, that's Pendleton PBR.
Who won that one? Your daddy won that one too?
The finals are right around Halloween and that's Reno Rosser and that's Luke Snyder
and they're dressed up,
let me tell you. Lane Frost signed that for me.
I think my mom and dad got it signed for me at the NFR with
John Browning. John Browning and Lane Frost were great friends.
Last year I was inducted into the PBR Ring of Honor,
which is a Hall of Fame at the PBR. There ain't too many guys out there that have one
of these rings.
I've won a lot of different buckles
and a lot of different awards in the sport of bull riding and
this ring really did mean more to me than
any of those buckles or any thing I've ever won.
It was neat to see because not only did Cody Lambert or
Jus McBride get up there and and brag about me on different things but I gotta
get up there and brag about my family too and
and my whole career. To be known as a
a legend of the sport and being a part of the Hall of Fame.
The guys that get picked that would be
like the board of directors and the founders of the PBR
and it was just something that they actually got to put
me in
in that situation to be a Ring of Honor inductee
and it was pretty dang cool to see see me and Mike White both last year got
up there and received our rings.
To be in the company of Mike White, Jus McBride, and Jim
and Michael and Ty and
Tough, you know all these guys before me,
it sure does humble me.
I wanna be remembered as somebody out there
not only not only was successful at bull riding,
I never did win the World Title, I won the Reserve World Title, or
I won second, and third and top 5 many times but
you know I never did get that gold buckle and I sure do wish I could do it
all over me and try to get that
buckle but but I wanna be dang sure known as somebody that
put out the effort every time no matter what situation
but also somebody that was out there to shake a hand and
sign autographs for somebody too, whether it's a fan or a young kid
growing up or
for being well known as a personable guy.
Here today, now I'm a family man and very happy
the be here in Texas with my beautiful wife Amy
and my three awesome boys Cooper, Cruise and Crease,
and it's funny how life works
but it's been a great life for me. I've been seriously
blessed for sure. I wouldn't change it for the world if I had to.