With all the noise about the Jazz (and enough stories in the local papers to choke a horse), you would think the tall guys are Utah's only sports heroes.

Ha! How about rodeo's Troy Lerwill? The Dallas Morning-News reports on this Utahn who is world famous as a motocycle-riding rodeo clown.

Wearing grease paint and daring bulls to kick your butt while jumping pickup trucks on a motorcyle is truly a sports tale of courage. And Lerwill, right, is really good at it.

The Morning News says Lerwill was "especially was attracted to the danger that came with the job." And, I would guess, the hat.

So it's not unusual that he became a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association bull fighter in 1997. Lerwill added a motorcycle act to his performance and has been voted the PRCA's top specialty act the last five years.

Mesquite, Tex., rodeo announcer Cheyenne Pipkin gave Lerwill the moniker "Wild Child":

He puts on shows that are incredibly entertaining, and he's funny.

Yep. A clown jumping trucks on a motorcycle while being chased by an enraged bull. That's entertainment!