CJ: A man who doesn't mind being called a clown, because the money's not funny

Proud of it, too. Rumford is the “2014 Rodeo Clown of the Year,” an honor he told me he has won three of the five years he's been clowning. “Pretty fortunate,” he said. I interviewed Rumford last week when the “World's Toughest Rodeo” made a stop at St.