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BigBadBen
11-30-2007, 03:30 PM
Evel died today.

Man he was a hero of mine when I was a kid.

http://evelknievel.com/
CowboyJD
11-30-2007, 06:37 PM
Crap, crap, crap. He's been sick for a long time, and I knew it was coming....but still. :(

Man I adored that guy when I was a kid. Even today, he's the coolest danged MF'er I've ever met personally in my life. He was one serious badass.

Godspeed EK.....give'em hell up there. :D
bleedorange
11-30-2007, 07:17 PM
I bet he jumped the Pearly Gates.

I had every Evel toy they made growing up in the 70's. I loved that guy.

RIP EK.
legelegel
11-30-2007, 09:04 PM
Robert Knievel may have been a brave dare devil, but his use of an aluminum baseball bat on the head and arms of Sheldon Saltman sullied his name for me forever.

That is how I remember him. He was not a man to be idealized.
Mr. Orange-Power
11-30-2007, 09:15 PM
Evil makes the final Jump!
CowboyJD
11-30-2007, 10:20 PM
Robert Knievel may have been a brave dare devil, but his use of an aluminum baseball bat on the head and arms of Sheldon Saltman sullied his name for me forever.

That is how I remember him. He was not a man to be idealized.

Evel did his time for doing that crime.

Don't (*&^% with the man.
legelegel
11-30-2007, 11:51 PM
Evel did his time for doing that crime.

Don't (*&^% with the man.

It was a small slice of a piece of his life, but it revealed who he really was.
legelegel
11-30-2007, 11:55 PM
There was also a baseball hall of famer who thought he had the right to beat a catcher around the head with a wood bat on a sunny summer day in San Fran. :rolleyes: His first name is the last part of the name of a city in the Caribbean.
legelegel
12-04-2007, 12:27 PM
Knievel's victim goes after the money

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.

With interest, the still-uncollected sum has grown to more than $100 million by Saltman's estimate, and he intends to try to collect it.

For more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-04-saltman-knievel_N.htm?csp=34