Iconic daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69
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TK Bunnies
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Oh my gosh!!!! :shock::shock::shock:
I quote: "Superman just doesn't die!"
Is that even possible? He was only 69!!! Wow.
Lots of cooler clebrities have been dieing! Like Steve Erwin! That made me really said!
Wow.... :shock:
I quote: "Superman just doesn't die!"
Is that even possible? He was only 69!!! Wow.
Lots of cooler clebrities have been dieing! Like Steve Erwin! That made me really said!
Wow.... :shock:
Pet_Bunny
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I thought he was older too. I remembered him way back, with the famous Canyon jump.
Becknutt
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Wow. I thought he was older..how sad.
TK I love your avatar!
TK I love your avatar!
TK Bunnies
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Becknutt wrote:
he he he.. thanks! i have a bigger pic posted on my blog! It's all the bunnies that have ever lived in our house pulling a sliegh filled with carrots! (I hadn't used photo shop for a while, and I was bored!)
he he he.. thanks! i have a bigger pic posted on my blog! It's all the bunnies that have ever lived in our house pulling a sliegh filled with carrots! (I hadn't used photo shop for a while, and I was bored!)
Johncdn
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Yeah, he was IT when I was a little kid in the '70's. 3 or 4 times a year he would be on ABC's Wide World Of Sports, and every kid watched him. I can still remember him jumping 14 Greyhound buses in '75. I can also remember being heartbroken that my Dad wouldn't take me to the hockey arena to watch the Snake River Jump on closed circuit TV in '74...."we're not giving that bum any of my money, if he wanted you to see it it would be on tv":X
He was an alcoholic, a shameless misogynist, perhaps a borderline psychopath - who threw his career away in '77 after beating up a writer who had the nerve to chronicle his drinking and womanizing, and the ultimate bad example for young boys on a bicycle- I can't count the number of times I fell off the banana seat of my Canadian Tire Cougar on to the crossbar:shock:
But he was also way ahead on a lot of things like race relations, being anti-drug and against "outlaw" motorcycle groups.
Most of all he was the last Gonzo Bull Moose
From Knievel's interview on The Jim Rome Show. I'm sure it will be replayed Monday.
Jim Rome: So what did you think your chances [of jumping the Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered bike] were?
Evel Knievel: Fifty-fifty.
Jim Rome: Fifty-fifty?
Evel Knievel: Fifty-fifty.......He built the parachute so that it absolutely would fail under the G-load. But the way I see it: If I had made it, no one would've cared. If I'd died, they would've said, "Well that's what's supposed to happen to daredevils." Here it is thirty years later and I don't see no bunch of Daredevils lining up to take a shot at it.
Jim Rome: So if you had a fifty-fifty chance, a coin-flip's chance to survive, why did you do it?
Evel Knievel: ...
Evel Knievel: Do you know who the hell I am?
He was an alcoholic, a shameless misogynist, perhaps a borderline psychopath - who threw his career away in '77 after beating up a writer who had the nerve to chronicle his drinking and womanizing, and the ultimate bad example for young boys on a bicycle
- I can't count the number of times I fell off the banana seat of my Canadian Tire Cougar on to the crossbar:shock:But he was also way ahead on a lot of things like race relations, being anti-drug and against "outlaw" motorcycle groups.
Most of all he was the last Gonzo Bull Moose
From Knievel's interview on The Jim Rome Show. I'm sure it will be replayed Monday.
Jim Rome: So what did you think your chances [of jumping the Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered bike] were?
Evel Knievel: Fifty-fifty.
Jim Rome: Fifty-fifty?
Evel Knievel: Fifty-fifty.......He built the parachute so that it absolutely would fail under the G-load. But the way I see it: If I had made it, no one would've cared. If I'd died, they would've said, "Well that's what's supposed to happen to daredevils." Here it is thirty years later and I don't see no bunch of Daredevils lining up to take a shot at it.
Jim Rome: So if you had a fifty-fifty chance, a coin-flip's chance to survive, why did you do it?
Evel Knievel: ...
Evel Knievel: Do you know who the hell I am?
