Two years ago, Brazile watched as Ryan Jarrett replaced him on the World Champions' stage following the 2005 season.

He used the 2006 season to return to the gold buckle spotlight, winning his fourth all-around world title in five years to re-align his sights on making history.

Brazile began this season even more focused and determined, and it showed.

He won his fifth all-around gold buckle, became the first PRCA cowboy since Roy Cooper in 1983 to win a Triple Crown, and he did it in record fashion.

Brazile blazed his way to tie-down roping, steer roping and all-around world titles and racked up a PRCA record of $425,115 in the process, breaking his own previous money record of $329,924 from the year before.

Brazile also qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in team roping, finishing fifth in the world and earning $146,243 on the season with partner Patrick Smith, the 2005 World Champion Heeler.

Brazile entered the Wrangler NFR with a six-figure lead in the all-around race over

Josh Peek and earned a rodeo-best $139,704 to seal the deal.

He secured the all around title following Round 8, then set his sights on the tie-down roping crown. He said it was a relief to get the second of the three titles out of the way prior to Round 10, when he needed all his skills to emerge victorious.

"The earlier you get it (the all-around title) done, the more of an exclamation point you put on your season and the more doubt you can remove out of anybody's mind, and that's always good," Brazile said.

Shortly after achieving the Triple Crown, it was clear that Brazile had a clear sense of the magnitude of his accomplishment.

"It doesn't matter how many world championships you win, you will never forget a year where everything worked at the same time," Brazile said.

"That's what I can't stress enough. It's hard enough to make everything work to where you win a gold buckle, but to make everything work in three different categories and to win those gold buckles. It's special."

But despite all the glory that comes with winning the Triple Crown, Brazile referred to it as "the second-most special thing that's happened to me this year."

He and wife, Shada, who is the step-daughter of Cooper, became parents for the first time on Dec. 1, welcoming home son Treston Norris just days before the Wrangler NFR began.

In typical Brazile fashion, he already has a goal set for the 2008 season.

"I plan on topping it," Brazile said of his 2007 campaign.

"The only thing that's better than the Triple Crown would be the Grand Slam. Team roping is definitely an area I'm going to concentrate a lot on next year, because I've got a great partner and that makes it fun. It hadn't been fun for me for a long time, but now I really enjoy the team roping.

"I've got probably the best head horse, I feel, in the PRCA, and I'm going to just enjoy that and try to have the same situation next year in the team roping. When it's all said and done, I want to have a shot at it."

And as long as he's healthy and has a rope in his hands, it seems that Brazile has a shot to do just about anything.

Simply put, he led the all-around standings virtually all season, winning multiple titles in team roping tie-down roping and steer roping on his way to the record money total.

In 2006 he won the most money during the Fourth of July week with $24,894 and became the youngest PRCA cowboy and the seventh overall to cross the $2 million mark in career earnings.

Brazile's stock has also garnered national attention.

In 2003 he became the first contestant to ever qualify for the Wrangler NFR in four events- tie-down roping, steer roping, team roping-header and team roping as a heeler.

In 2002 AQHA Tie-down Roping Horse of the Year honors went to Brazile's horse (Tinys Clipso) Tweeter, and his horse Real Cool Dual (nickname Texaco) was voted PRCA/AQHA's second-best tie-down roping Horse of the Year in 2004 and 2006, while his horse Die Hard Romance (nickname Roan Ranger) finished second in the steer roping horse of the year voting in 2006.

He has appeared on NBC's Today Show and was featured in a Dec. 4, 2006 issue of ESPN The Magazine's The Jump - 7 Things You Should Know About Rodeo.

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