Evil Knievel Dead

I just heard this on the news. I'm suprised he lived this long.

Just watched a documentary about him, a couple of months ago. Bummer. I still have a pix of myself, about 7 yrs old, wearing an Evil shirt and jumping my bike over a piece of wood and a brick. LoL

I've been looking for info online but can't find any. I guess they haven't had time to put up anything yet. The guy on the news said "This just in".......

i was just going to start this thread. i saw him as a kid back in the late 70's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2xwO1ciEKo&feature=related

I'd have to say thats a pretty ripe age for a daredevil

diabetes and fiber something "lungs"

His glory days we're before my time, but I have seen most of his stunts, watched a movie about him, and heard him on Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show. From what I understand he was cool at one time, but the older he got the crazier he got

crazy? I think brain damaged... I love that guy......

Yeah....I'm pretty sure brain damage had something to do with it

i think he was on pain killers for awhile. i could be way off.

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundel said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital.
"It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" Rundel said.......

fdd2blk said:

i think he was on pain killers for awhile. i could be way off.

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ROFLMAO......When I heard the news guy say he was dead, the FIRST thing that popped into my head was "Man I bet he was on MAAAAAD painkillers"

Erniedytn said:

ROFLMAO......When I heard the news guy say he was dead, the FIRST thing that popped into my head was "Man I bet he was on MAAAAAD painkillers"

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i think that it was a looooong time ago. could have been booze also. or i'm just making sh*t up.

I remember having the EK motorcycle....With the plastick ribbed t-strip that you inserted by the rear tire...pulled...and made the wheels spin.

Im old.

Is that the same thing as the crank toy motorcycle, I had that, my brother got my hair caught in the rubber wheels of the cycle.....

I dunno....we can say whatever we want...but he was an entertainmewnt icon in my early days....and had all of us jumping shit with out bikes.....may be rest in peace!

Evel Knievel, Daredevil on a Motorcycle, Dies at 69
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