1.   - Lance Brittan, a rodeo clown and champion bull wrestler who actually wrestles with a steer and leaps over its horns.

2.   Gone are the days when rodeo clowns were entertainers first, protectors of the fallen riders second.

3.   Last April, Jeff Van Gundy clung to the leg of Heat center Alonzo Mourning and allowed himself to be dragged around the floor like a rodeo clown.

4.   Not just anybody can become a professional rodeo clown.

5.   Other nontraditional occupations checked out by the authors, who call themselves the Lookout Media Team, include rodeo clown, mystery shopper, executioner and TV weathercaster.

6.   Rodeo clowns will act as diversions for the bulls should the animals get too cantankerous.

7.   Rodeo clowns are independent contractors who are booked by rodeo organizers per event.

8.   Rodeo clowns spend most of the year on the road.

9.   So we tried to adapt it to rodeo clowns and the like.

10.   Their jobs are dangerous and, yes, rodeo clowns can get health insurance, Feller said.