Blocking defensive ends and tackles, roping and tackling steers, Gene “Buddy” Cockrell has spent his life igniting NFL football fields and PRCA rodeo arenas.
As a professional football player, he protected the quarterback until a knee injury forced him off the field. He won the PRCA World Championship for steer-tripping in the 1970s.
At 85, Buddy moves sl…
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