11-30-2007, 03:43 PM
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Evel Kneivel passes away at age 69
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Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
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I remember being so disappointed when the Snake Canyon thing didn't work. That just added to my disappointment that he wasn't trying it on a motorcycle (well I was 6 at the time).
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 11-30-2007 at 03:48 PM.
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11-30-2007, 03:45 PM
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the guy cheated death for years, unreal he got to 69. I think he broke every bone in his body except for one small bone in his ear. Crazy dude. RIP Evel.
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11-30-2007, 03:50 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Gotta respect the guy. Looked fear in face and challenged death. Can't say he didn't live life to the fullest.
RIP!
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11-30-2007, 03:51 PM
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P of Red
Join Date: Aug 2005
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For the life he led that's pretty old. Definitely made an impact on our world. RIP!!
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11-30-2007, 03:55 PM
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nm
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11-30-2007, 03:57 PM
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Norm!
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I had the snake river canyon play set, came complete with an action figure, and a parachute that deployed on launch.
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11-30-2007, 04:02 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Pretty bad ass age to go out though...
RIP
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11-30-2007, 04:44 PM
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I was amazed when Rob Kerr mentioned on the radio this afternoon that the Snake River Canyon jump was in 1971. I thought for sure it was more in the mid-seventies, as I recall it very well. I was a bit young to remember the Caesar's Palace jump.
Young'uns just have no idea how popular he was in the seventies.
Rest In Peace, Evel.
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11-30-2007, 04:54 PM
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Wow, he was on Live from Wayne Gretzky's last Saturday and said in the interview that he doesn't have much time left. Guess he wasn't kidding...
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11-30-2007, 04:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pope04
I was amazed when Rob Kerr mentioned on the radio this afternoon that the Snake River Canyon jump was in 1971. I thought for sure it was more in the mid-seventies, as I recall it very well. I was a bit young to remember the Caesar's Palace jump.
Young'uns just have no idea how popular he was in the seventies.
Rest In Peace, Evel.
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Kerr must have made a mistake. I remember it so it couldn't have been '71
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Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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11-30-2007, 08:03 PM
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Bobble, you're a prince among men. That makes more sense.
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11-30-2007, 10:24 PM
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RIP Evel Knieval. There is no other person who made their living by propelling their body into rock and concrete that I have respected more than him. The '68 wipeout at Caesars' Palace would have been my last foray into Daredeviling if I were in that position but he just kept coming back harder. To pulverize one's body in that manner over a long period will take its toll. Knieval was living on stubbornness alone as if simply staying alive was the harrowing feat. RIP showman.
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11-30-2007, 10:27 PM
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i was just reading the interview in the new MAXIM (with that hottie Sarah Michelle Geller on the cover) and he was actually saying that it might be his last interview.
its a good interview fwiw.
RIP Evel.
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11-30-2007, 10:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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R.I.P. Evel, a fine Montanan.
I can't think of a more appropriate hometown for a guy like him than Butte.
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11-30-2007, 11:11 PM
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Jim Rome fans will remember the interview he did on the show. Rome asked Evel about that rocket jump/crash and what went wrong. Evel blamed it on a technician's miscalculations. Then Rome asked what the chances of serious injury or death were if the stunt was perfectly planned. Evel says "50-50".
Rome asks why he would do a stunt with such high chances of death. Short pause.
Evel: "Do you know who the hell I am?".
RIP
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12-01-2007, 12:08 AM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 4X4
Jim Rome fans will remember the interview he did on the show. Rome asked Evel about that rocket jump/crash and what went wrong. Evel blamed it on a technician's miscalculations. Then Rome asked what the chances of serious injury or death were if the stunt was perfectly planned. Evel says "50-50".
Rome asks why he would do a stunt with such high chances of death. Short pause.
Evel: "Do you know who the hell I am?".
RIP
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That and the walking cane full of Wild Turkey  classic Jungle moment!
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12-01-2007, 12:44 AM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
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Diamond encrusted cane full of Wild Turkey.
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12-01-2007, 11:27 AM
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