Trevor Brazile sits high on his horse with rope in hand on a billboard on the outskirts of Decatur, a historic Friday Night Lights town in North Texas known for rodeo legends. Brazile is one of them. A team, tie-down, and steer roper, he’s won more world championship belt buckles than any other cowboy in history. He’s been called rodeo’s answer to Superman. A multiple Rodeo Hall of Famer, he’s bagged 26 PRCA world titles, which is indicated in bold lettering on the billboard on the outskirts of town, and 14 All-Around Cowboy World Champion titles. The billboard advertises a museum dedicated to him and another local Rodeo Hall of Fame legend, Roy “Super Looper” Cooper, at the popular NRS — National Roper’s Supply — an “all things Western” destination store just off U.S. Route 287 on the south side of town.
Brazile makes his home in Decatur with his wife, Shada, Cooper’s stepdaughter — herself a world-class barrel racer who’s also from Decatur—and their three children on a 100-acre ranch here, where they breed American Quarter Horses. Born in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle about 300 miles to the northwest of here, Brazile’s been around Decatur for most of his adult life. His father moved to Decatur in ’93. Ten years later, Brazile bought a ranch there. He’s made appearances in the local newspaper, the . But he’s been making frequent appearances in national headlines around the country since
